Customer: Brookvale International
                Carson, California

System Integrator: McCombs-Wall, Inc.
                            Orange, California

Conveyors: Hytrol Conveyor Co., Inc.
                  Jonesboro, Arkansas

The system, as designed by McCombs- Wall and Hytrol, was designed to enable Brookvale to change the speed of the equipment to accommodate throughput. Adjustments were made after installation to keep pace with customer needs. Currently, the system handles between 20 and 25 thousand pieces a shift, with a goal of 40 thousand. In addition to basic receiving, stocking, picking, and shipping, the Brookvale center also has the capability of handling value-added services such as “hang-tags,” custom bagging, pricing, and other customer requirements. Hytrol conveyors are also used to help with these services.

The VAS (Value Added Service) area, above, accepts totes with items that require additional work such as hand tags, pricing, special bagging, etc. Below left, the recirculation line conveys empty totes back to the receiving area where they are filled and the totes scanned.

The operation at Brookvale centers completely around the receiving, storing, order processing, and shipping of all apparel for PUMA. PUMA is the global sportlifestyle company known for fusing the influences of sport, lifestyle and fashion. PUMA’s unique industry perspective delivers the unexpected in sportlifestyle footwear, apparel and accessories, through technical innovation and revolutionary design. Brookvale works in partnership with PUMA North America to distribute PUMA apparel through the United States and Puerto Rico from their Carson, California distribution center.

The packed shipping cartons are manually placed onto a take away conveyor and moved across an inline scale to either a UPS shipping conveyor or a consolidation loop. The remaining empty totes in packing are also manually placed onto the same take away conveyor where they move toward the inline scale. They are automatically diverted by a pop-up transfer onto the empty tote line.

The pick module area where items are stocked and picked.

“Everything is working fine. We’ve had no problems. The conveyor system does exactly what we want it to do. We have a max that we have to meet every day and it’s met that. The installation went good. The Hytrol Project Manager was on-site when he was needed.”
— Gary Wicks, General Manager, Brookvale International

The Hospital line, lower level, where shortages are corrected, and the recirculation line, upper level.

Pop-up V-belt transfers move empty totes back into the recirculation line to be re-filled.

Types of Conveyors: Belt, Roller, Slider Bed, Roller Bed, Zero-pressure Accumulation, Trash Belt, Pop-up V-belt Transfers, & Gravity Conveyors