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AS/RS Keeps the Bottles Flowing for Distribution Center
Clients in the News: Walk into The Glenmore Distillery’s new $45 million distribution center in Owensboro, Ky., and you’ll find something not often found in a bottling operation: a large-scale automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS). Although these machines are used in a wide range of industries, they have yet to make major inroads in this...
Keep ReadingL’Oreal: Automation Fit to the Purpose
Clients in the News: In L’Oreal’s Walton, Ky., distribution center, robotic layer picking has brought a high level of automation to pallet building in a facility that traditionally was full pallet in and full pallet out. The technology allows L’Oreal to change that part of its business model and provide more flexibility and better service...
Keep ReadingPicking Through the Layers to Uncover Efficiency, Accuracy
Clients in the News: Global supply chains are elaborate orchestrations of precise processes that enable products to routinely move from point A to point B without a glitch. One of the more complex components of this logistical symphony is accurate order fulfillment. To maintain accuracy, productivity, and efficiency across operations, a variety of factors must be...
Keep ReadingHow to Pick and Choose: Behind the Scenes at Cimcorp
Clients in the News: It’s a combination of a heavy-duty, clamping and vacuum-based tool and a large, fast gantry that can be 10 to 15 M wide and 30 to 100 M long. The gantry can build up to 8-foot pallet loads and has a one-ton capacity. The bridge structure travels on two rails and can...
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