Roll Change Automation Makes Tobacco Packaging Company More Efficient

The new splicer and rewinders enabled Samsung to run the presses roll-to-roll, without having to stop to make manual splices. Such stoppages incur wasted production time, labor and material waste. This material waste is generated from two primary sources: substrate that is lost due to slowing down, stopping, and restarting the press; and excess paper that is left on the core at the end of a roll, due to inefficiency of having to stop the roll without running out of paper. Automatic roll change minimizes these causes of waste, as Samsung has experienced on its presses.