The Wayne Automation BCI smashes the convention that the beverage carrier section of your line requires many machines consuming large portions of your floor space. This machine was designed from the outset to provide carrier opening and erecting functions on the same compact frame as the carrier insertion function.

The compact footprint of the BCI requires only 22 feet of line space. The in-line magazine sits over the carrier conveyor, allowing the machine to be less than five feet in width, and facilitates loading and operation from either side of the machine.

Even when your line is running non-beverage carrier products, the BCI has you covered. A built-in bypass function lets you run the included case conveyor without operating the carrier erector or inserter. This eliminates the need to have dedicated bypass conveyors around the machine.

At the heart of the BCI Basket Carrier Erector / Inserter is an innovative approach to opening and erecting the beverage carriers that greatly reduces waste carriers. The patented opener system erects two simultaneous lines of carriers in the upright position, eliminating the need to stand carriers up from their sides and use lane diverters. Any unlatched carriers are detected and rejected, reducing the potential for jams at the inserter station.

The basket carrier inserter head, based on the industry-leading Wayne Automation Partition Inserters, uses servo controls to place erected beverage carriers into the case, delivering a consistent and reliable insertion.

Wayne also offers a case inspection and rejection unit, utilizing a vision system to inspect the completed case and reject the case from the product conveyor. This prevents any bad cases from impacting your operations downstream.

The most innovative benefit to our BCI is the ability to change over from being a 4 pack erector to a 6 pack erector. A large majority of customers use erectors and inserters which can’t adjust form factors, requiring you to run multiple machines, some of which may not even be in use at the same time.

With our seamless changeover system, you can transition from a 4 pack of 187ml bottles to a 6 pack of 12 oz bottles. This was massively beneficial to CSD Copackers, who’s success with our BCI system is documented below. Now with our fully automated system, they can seamlessly conduct up to 5 changeovers per week, all while reducing the needed workforce on their erector and inserter line from eight down to two.

The BCI includes a comprehensive guard package and full-length Lexan doors with anti-intrusion switches. All of the functions of the machine can be readily observed through the guard doors, and are fully accessible for easy maintenance. Multiple remote emergency and cycle stop stations are included around the perimeter of the machine for easy access.

The machine includes extensive fault tree logic so issues are easily tracked to the exact location of the problem, allowing you to quickly solve the problem and minimize downtime.

The vertical traveling inserter head is equipped with redundant safety systems including a pneumatic rotary brake, rod clamp, and an Allen Bradley Resistive Braking module to ensure completely safe entry into the machine when stopped.