Buyers specifying a premade pouch machine typically focus on the filling system and the sealing station, but a frequent source of commissioning delay is incompatibility between the machine's pouch handling geometry and the format in which pouches are actually supplied. Pouches arrive on rolls, in stacked cartons with or without interleaving, or in shingled stacks, and the pick-up station must be configured for the specific supply format. A machine specified for carton-stacked