Industry Solutions & Case Studies > Food & Beverage
Case Study
Before
A well-known food bakery was experiencing rapid growth and needed significant operational improvements to reduce their costs. Hampered by limited space, employee safety and product quality was beginning to suffer. Outdated production methods required an extensive labor force while employee exposure in the frozen warehouse needed to be reduced.
- Inability to increase sales / grow revenue
- High energy and operational costs
- Limited production and storage capacities
- Struggling with inventory and lot control
- Extensive dependency upon manual labor
- Significant exposure to workplace injuries
- Outdated production methods
After
- Awarded PLANT OF THE YEAR by FMI
- Freezer ASRS (Automated Storage Retrieval)
- Robotic palletizing of finished product
- Robotic depalletizing /building of mixed SKU orders
- RFID tagging & tracking of pallets
- Integrated automated production system
- Highly efficient system producing high quality products
Intense competition in Food and Beverage underscores the need for the effective planning of warehousing and manufacturing operations. With merchants unable to manage any type of cost advantage, the use of software, material handling automation and engineered storage systems can help drive down and control your operating costs. Important design factors include:
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RACKING SYSTEMS / ASRS
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SORTATION SYSTEMS
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CONVEYING SYSTEMS
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WCS & WMS
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PAPERLESS PICKING
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