CASE STUDY — CONTRACT PACKING / HIGH-SPEED PICKING / VIC
HarbourPack
A contract packer needed industrial picking speed for a high-volume program but did not want to buy equipment for a demand profile that could shift quarter to quarter.
HarbourPack's customer program ran hard during promotion windows, then cooled off quickly. Manual picking was expensive, and the site did not want to own a fixed automation asset before it had seen the product mix behave on the line.
Rental offered the right commercial shape. The plant could move quickly, prove throughput, and avoid turning a customer-driven spike into a long procurement exercise.
ARR deployed an industrial picking cell tuned to the program's carton range and line rate, with fast changeover logic and weekly review checkpoints so the plant could see throughput and uptime clearly through peak.
“Peak season used to mean labour hire, overtime, and crossed fingers. Now we switch product, hit start, and keep going.”
CHLOE MARTIN — PLANT MANAGER, HARBOURPACK
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Peak demand was absorbed without standing up another labour-hire crew.
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SKU changeovers dropped below the old manual reset rhythm, giving the line more productive time.
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Commercial risk stayed low because the operation did not have to buy first and justify later.
HarbourPack is now using the pilot data to decide where a longer-term rental footprint makes sense across other customer programs.
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