CASE STUDY — FOOD & BEVERAGE / PALLETISING / NSW
Teralba Industries
A fast-moving packaging line was depending on labour hire to cover late and weekend palletising. ARR deployed a managed rental cell and stabilised the shift.
Teralba's end-of-line team was covering labour gaps with agency staff who arrived late, left early, and slowed the line every time the product mix changed. The operation had no appetite for a full capital purchase while volumes were still moving around.
The site wanted speed, proof and local accountability. A managed rental model made more sense than waiting for a longer CapEx path while the labour problem kept costing money every week.
ARR scoped the product range, pallet patterns, line speed and footprint, then deployed an industrial palletising system with programming, operator training and weekly performance reviews built in. The focus stayed on stabilising output fast rather than building a massive project wrapper around the job.
“We were sceptical. Then the robot hit 14 picks a minute on day three and the night shift stopped scrambling.”
REUBEN BAKER — OPERATIONS MANAGER, TERALBA INDUSTRIES
- [R—01]
60% reduction in palletising labour requirement within five weeks.
- [R—02]
Night-shift coverage risk dropped because the robot carried the repetitive stack-building work.
- [R—03]
The site moved from reactive firefighting to a visible weekly review cadence on throughput and downtime.
After the pilot result held, the team used the same deployment model to scope a second automation opportunity elsewhere on the line.
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