AS/RS

Cimcorp MultiPick robotic material handling

Field Report

Bakery improves fulfillment time by automating headquarters warehouse

The bakery also reduced space utilization by 50 percent and decreased labor by 30 percent

January 30, 2020

Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe Inc. finds the summer season really good for business—except mostly manual practices in the warehouse put a real crimp on the way the company would really like to handle the distribution side of its supply chain.

Gracyor perishables Cold Storage Facility

Graycor Construction to build high-capacity perishables distribution center for big-box retailer

Graycor broke ground on the Shafter, Calif., distribution center in October 2018.

September 6, 2019

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Graycor Construction Co., Oak Brook Terrace, Ill., topped out on the construction of a 628,713-square-foot high-capacity perishable distribution center for a big-box retailer.

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef announces new $35M distribution center

The new warehouse will consist of an automated storage and retrieval system capable of handling 27,000 boxes in a 9-hour day with more than 37,000 box storage locations.

October 22, 2018

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Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC broke ground on a new $35 million refrigerated distribution center at its Arkansas City, Kan., headquarters facility.

How a warehouse execution system assists with recalls

Don’t rely on an ERP system to manage all aspects of your warehouse—not if you need real-time connectivity.

Wayne Labs

January 8, 2018

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A dedicated warehouse management system can not only manage recalls, but it can also manage a fully automated warehouse automation system.

Technology Sourcebook

Storage/Retrieval system

January 14, 2016

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Built for large primary food processors, the Milmeq MFAST robotic storage and retrieval system sorts and prioritizes cartons of perishable chilled or frozen products as they enter the storage enclosure.

Preventive & Predictive Maintenance

The future looks smarter

Whatever maintenance program you follow, an intelligent data gathering system plus a CMMS can decrease parts expenditures and increase uptime.

Wayne Labs

July 22, 2015

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If run to failure is no longer an option, food and beverage processors have alternative ways to keep their equipment running at peak performance levels; they can plan maintenance schedules based on OEM suggestions.

Farm bill on its last legs according to IDFA

TECH FLASH

For faster order fulfillment, consider software-driven automated picking

Improved workflow processes and automation technologies can provide immediate improvements.

Shane O'Halloran

April 29, 2014

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Benefits include improved picking accuracy, time reduction and improved ergonomics.

AS/RS grows with dairy/retailer

July 5, 2012

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DC sports a high-bay AS/RS that moves 42,000 crates of liquid products daily with a 99.9 percent accuracy rate.

Northeast Foods takes unconventional approach, achieves excellence

June 8, 2012

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The engineering team from Northeast Foods’ Automatic Rolls of North Carolina hamburger bun manufacturing facility, winner of Food Engineering’s 2012 Plant of the Year award, participated in a special presentation at FE’s annual Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference.