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Meyers
Corporation System Profile
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Customer: Meyer
Corporation
Vallejo & Fairfield, California
System Integrator:
McCombs-Wall, Inc.
Garden Grove, California |
Conveyors on top of the steel super structure route cases to several
destinations. Most go to a palletizer but there are additional spurs
and lines to move the product where needed.
Hytrol
Gapper sortation conveyors are used to accumulate of like SKU's for
Palletizing on the upper deck.
An end
view of the steel super structure shows the palletizer at right and a loop
of Hytrol roller and inclined belt at left.
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installing the Hytrol system at Meyer Corp. workers came to work each day
faced with a demanding task of manual unloading and palletizing heavy boxes
of up to 40 pounds each which required much reaching and bending. The job
required scores of workers, usually temporary staff. Today, with the help of
the efficient Hytrol conveyor system, throughput and output has been
significantly increased. Only a few workers are required to operate the
system and they no longer have to manually lift and move the boxes for
palletizing. |
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The product arrives at the
distribution center in 40 ft. and 45 ft. high-cube containers via trucks.
Product (boxes of cookware such as pots and pans) is unloaded and workers
place the boxes onto an extendible conveyor. The extendibles feed a Hytrol
live roller spur conveyor feeding a Hytrol zero-pressure accumulation line
which in turn feeds an incline belt to the top of the McCombs-Wall provided
steel super structure. Here, on top of the super structure, the overhead
conveyor merges with re-circulation on top and
feeds cases at a rate of 45 cases per minute to a Hytrol induction
gapper. An overhead scanner reads the bar code and assigns one of the two
active and one future sort destinations for accumulation of one full pallet
of product. Once the pallet case count is complete, the line is
automatically released to the palletizer via a decline belt conveyor to a
mid-level, ceiling-supported conveyor. This ceiling supported conveyor is
attached to the structure, above the extendibles.
A chute is provided down
stream of the accumulation line to dump cases to the floor in the event the
palletizer is down, or non-palletize-able product is conveyed to the upper
level. Two additional sort destinations are available for cases which cross
the scanner. One is the no read line. The other is the case cross-dock
destination, which allows cases from an overseas container to be routed back
to another extendible to reload a delivery truck. This is in the event the
receipt was not for inventory.
Hytrol Gapper sortation
conveyors are used to accumulate of like SKU’s for palletizing on the upper
deck.
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Jarod Sproule, Project Manager and Distribution Center
Manager: "The unloading time for a container went from several house
to less than an hour per container."
Michael Rummelhoff, Vice President of Operations:
"Serious consideration was given tot he actual footprint used for
this project, minimizing the loss of storage and increasing the amount of
staging area on the dock."
Gail-Adela Fabricante, Safety Manager for Meyer
Corp.: "There is a significant return on investment when you consider
the handling of the product and the direct relationship with work-related
injuries." |
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1586 N. Batavia, Orange, CA 92867 Phone 714-890-6600
FAX 714-890-6696 
