RS Offers 100,000+ End-to-End Solutions with Convenient Material Handling & Packaging Applications in your Supply Chain

March 2, 2023

Material handling & packaging equipment plays a vital role in the global logistics and supply chain industries. RS supports the unique needs of these various applications with an extensive selection of essential and auxiliary solutions.

RS offers an extensive selection of end-to-end solutions. Material handling & packaging equipment plays a vital role in the global logistics and supply chain industries. These applications support crucial tasks extending from forecasting, resource allocation, and production planning to flow and process management, inventory management and control, customer delivery, and even after-sales support and service.

Material and Packaging Application Offerings

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Good Year Belt. Classical V-Belt, 1 band. B’ Section

RS supports the unique needs of various material handling & packaging applications with hundreds of thousands of solutions ranging from the essential — including bearings and belts, connectivity products, linear motion devices, motors, industrial controls, hydraulics & pneumatics, power supplies, circuit protection, process controls, sensors, lubricants, and cleaners — to the auxiliary, including PLCs, HMIs, handheld test & measurement equipment, PPE, tools, and lighting.

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Leeson DC Motor,1/2 HP,1750 rpm

For example, RS currently offers 280 ready-to-ship Goodyear Belts engineered to satisfy the rigorous power transmission demands of the rapidly evolving industrial manufacturing, material handling & packaging, and transportation industries. RS also offers a wide selection of the AC and DC motors essential for any motion control application from Leeson and Marathon Motors, which are subsidiaries of the world-renowned Regal Rexnord brand. Connectivity is another vital component of material handling & packaging equipment, and RS currently offers more than 49,000 in-stock solutions from trusted suppliers, including Meltric.

Auxiliary solutions like the lighting products that illuminate material handling & packaging equipment to ensure operator safety and enable equipment maintenance are also crucial components of end-to-end solutions and are available from suppliers including Signify, a leading global supplier of innovative, high-quality, and high-efficiency lighting solutions from brands such as Philips.

For more information about the extensive selection of end-to-end solutions for material handling & packaging applications, including relevant content from the RS Expert Advice series of thought leadership articles, interviews, and podcasts, please click the links embedded here. For assistance identifying and deploying industrial control solutions, please contact your local RS representative at 1.866.433.5722 or reach out to our technical support team.

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