Too much maintenance is a waste; too little is a prescription for disaster. Fortunately, software can deliver schedules that are just right.
The 800,000 cubic foot facility virtually eliminates manual product handling from the time cases of milk and juice arrive from the dairy's fillers until they reach the loading dock where trucks will take orders to Wawa's 520 convenience stores in the mid-Atlantic region. Sixteen storage/retrieval machines (SRMs) pick the daily orders on a first in, first out basis from the four-story high storage racks, accurately filling 99.98 percent of those orders.