Chester Medical’s Print & Packaging Division is a carton and leaflet production and printing facility serving the pharmaceutical industry. As well as conventional printing, the company offers digitally printed cartons and leaflets which cater to the pharma industry’s increasing demand for short-run, short lead-time manufacture. The whole facility is accredited to the PS9000 pharmaceutical grade, including the digital print facility making the company unique within this field.
Chester Medical operate a number of automated and semi-automated production lines to print leaflets as well as, fold and glue cartons. These machines run at very high speeds to ensure that products are delivered at competitive prices but with speed and accuracy comes complexity and hundreds of moving parts that are critical to smooth, accurate operation.
AddParts was approached by the Operations Manager at Chester Medical to look at ways in which digital spares could assist in reducing the cost and impact of downtime on spare parts for the company’s gluing and folding lines.