Material Handling, Storage and Retreival Application Stories
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Corporate Express Canada Streamlines Picking at Distribution Centers By Jim McMahon
Corporate Express Canada has eight distribution centers throughout the country which require a bilingual picking system in both English and French. It switched to voice picking technology, using Dematic’s PickDirector software. Click here to read full article...
AGCs replace AGVs at John Deere By Barrett Kalellis
76 SmartCart automatic guided cart (AGC) systems replaced 50 AGVs at John Deere’s lawn tractor assembly plant in Horicon, WI. The AGCs follow magnetic tape affixed to the floor, which can be reconfigured easily. Read entire article.
AGV delivers large steel plates for aircraft carriers By Jervis Webb
Northrup Grumman uses a specially designed AGV to move steel plates weighing up to 20 tons at its fabrication plant in Newport News, VA. It replaces a 30-year-old rail-based delivery system. Read entire article by Jervis Webb.
California Custom Fruits & Flavors Automates Material Handling with Vacuum Conveyor This problem/solution case study illustrates how CCFF, a leading provider of fillings and fruit preparations for the food and dairy industries, was able to improve manufacturing processes by replacing its existing manual scooping method with an automated solution from PIAB Vacuum Conveyors. The new solution eliminated waste from lumps in the ingredients and it also prevented physical harm to employees. Click here to read full article...
Canadian Pharmaceutical Giant Goes Vertical For Growth FKI Logistex® Cleco Systems Maestro aisle-changing cranes provide flexible vertical storage and retrieval solution to enable 500 percent growth. Fred Grafe likes to think outside of the box. Luckily he can. In his role as director of logistics for Toronto, Ontario-based Apotex Inc.—Canada’s largest Canadian-owned pharmaceutical manufacturer—Grafe has been virtually forced to stay outside of the box to keep his team of logistics experts just ahead of the explosive growth their company has experienced in the past few years. Click here to read full article...
