Some believe that plastic has simplified packaging procedures. It took six to eight minutes to wrap some coils with paper because customers provided various instructions, such as the amount of eye- and OD bands, edge protection, and cardboard siding. A customer wanted a little of this and a little of that. So your wrapping instructions got very complicated. The standard package comes with one OD band and two or three eye bands.
Customers seem to be relaxing their pack aging demands, however.
Cus tomers simply want an un damaged coil without any rust on it, Kaczmarek says. They don't care what the package looks like, as long as they can get rid of the material. AISI's packaging and loading committee has formed standards by which steelmakers package their products for their automotive customers. This has reduced the complexity of packaging. AGVs then transport them to a racked automatic storage system.