Dimensional Packaging

At least part of future packaging success here sits in the cloud. Using cloud for packaging.

Beyond its team of experts, Rice Lake has come up with an online guide to integrate a new cubing and weighing station into your shipping process.

Rice Lake’s iDimension Series calculates the dimensions of your packages, flats, polybags, tubes, irregular-shaped products and boxes with ease and incredible speed.

It’s worth at least a few minutes to go down the rabbit hole of efficient cartonization. Besides lower packaging and shipping costs, right sizing cartons is a valuable sustainable practice.

From what goes in packages to pallet loads on the warehouse floor and even artificial intelligence, dimensioning equipment has some new missions.

Cubing and weighing equipment helps companies make better use of their warehouse space, cut shipping costs and reduce errors.

Once confined to the shipping department, cubing systems are moving upstream to measure individual items and boxes as well as pallet loads to improve handling processes and cube utilization.

Ever receive a box too big for its contents? What’s worse, the shipper overpaid to ship an unnecessarily oversized box. Automated fit-to-size packaging solves both problems at once.

The Green Bay Packers use dimensioning systems to cost-effectively ship online orders. With machinery to right-size shipping cartons and dimensioning, freight costs are minimized.

At one point, it was all about dimensioning boxes for shipment. But e-commerce changed that as DCs needed to dimension what was going in the box. Doing that requires a new set of capabilities.

As a result, the toy manufacturer’s fill rate is now 83%, a rise of 15%.

The new workflow is outperforming the company’s previous process considerably.

From slotting to shipping, dimensioning equipment delivers a rapid ROI as it provides data that expedites inventory movement at several nodes across the supply chain.

Automated packaging system builds custom shipping cartons around single-, multi-line orders every seven seconds.

The use of cubing and weighing equipment is growing beyond dimensional weight applications.