Fully automated solution to profitability for a novel period care product

Callaly是一家英国公司，该公司开发并生产一种新型女性卫生用品，由一位妇科医生发明，这是一种“混合”卫生棉条和内裤衬垫。这款创新产品被称为Tampliner，它结合了两种产品的最佳功能，并特别依赖于专利的创新薄“套管”，使卫生棉条能够卫生地使用和处理。Callaly是英国创新基金的接受者，用于研究和开发Tampliner的设计和生产过程。Callaly去年在英国建立了Tampliner的生产基地。该公司通过互联网直接向女性和所有月经来潮的人销售这些产品。客户每月支付订费，然后可以选择自己个人选择的产品（即流量，Tampliners，卫生巾或卫生棉条），他们的订单每月邮寄给他们。这种方法已被证明非常受客户欢迎，目前该团队的订阅者/消费者基础不断增长，超过6,000名订阅者。目前的制造过程是半自动组装和手工包装的混合，设计和实施是为了证明产品适合市场，这是Callaly自推出以来成功完成的。为了实现制造过程优化的阶段性变化，需要开发和实施完全自动化的生产和包装过程，这将大大降低劳动力成本（88%），使Callaly能够在月经护理市场中占据非常有竞争力的地位。Callaly正在寻求贷款，以投资开发先进的全自动Tampliner制造和包装过程，与世界领先的英国定制自动化开发商合作。新系统将利用高科技装配和视觉引导机器人流程，同时通过在新系统中开发工业4.0功能，彻底改变制造业供应链对在线客户订单的反应方式。这项投资还将带来额外的好处，即消除对一层塑料包装的需求，减少包装废物的总量。

Callaly is a UK company that has developed and now produces a new type of feminine hygiene product, invented by a gynaecologist, that is a "hybrid" tampon and pantyliner. The innovative product, called a Tampliner, combines the best features of both products and specifically relies on a patented innovative thin "sleeve" that enables the tampon to be hygienically used and disposed of. Callaly is the recipient of Innovate UK grant funding to research and develop the Tampliner design and production process.Callaly established UK based manufacturing of the Tampliner last year. The business sells the products directly to women and all people with periods over the internet. Customers pay a monthly subscription fee, then can select their own personal choice of product (i.e. flow rate, Tampliners, pads or tampons) and their order is mailed to them every month. This approach has proven to be very popular with customers, at present the team has a growing subscriber/consumer base of over 6,000 subscribers.The current manufacturing process is a mix of semi auto assembly and manual packaging which were designed and implemented to prove the product market fit which Callaly has successfully done since launch. In order to achieve a step change in the optimisation of the manufacturing process there is a requirement to develop and implement a fully automated production and packaging process that will drastically reduce the labour cost (88%) enabling Callaly to command a very competitive position in the period care market.Callaly is seeking a loan to invest in the development of an advanced fully automated Tampliner manufacturing and packaging process in collaboration with world leading British bespoke automation developers. The new system will make use of high-tech assembly and vision guided robotic processes while also revolutionising the way manufacturing supply chain reacts to online customer orders by developing industry 4.0 capabilities in the new systems. This investment will also have the added benefit of removing the need for a layer of plastic packaging and reducing the total amount of packaging waste.