In this year's challenging business environment, slicer manufacturers are responding to the urgent needs of customers brought on by the reduction of labor and seamless integration. Ryan Spencer, product market manager for chambers, portioning and slicing at Multivac Inc., Kansas City, Mo., noted the developments in automatically loading sliced portions into the packaging machine are helping customers achieve their goal of reducing the number of line workers needed to run production. "The industry wants more connectivity and intelligence between all pieces of the line," he said. "The entire strategy of Multivac is especially focused on these two issues. The reason we have expanded from being a packaging-only provider to a full-line solutions provider is that is the best way to deliver the tight integration that our customers are seeking. And our automation solutions have expanded significantly as customers both large and small struggle to hire enough labor to run their legacy production lines."
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