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Palletizing plays a crucial role in the logistics supply chains of food and beverage manufacturers, ensuring efficient and safe product handling. This post will explore the differences between low-level and high-level palletizing systems, comparing their layout flexibility, performance, and safety. We will also discuss how each system works, including layer formation, product accumulation, infeed impact, and the typical range of layers formed per hour. By the end, you will have a better understanding of which system might best suit your needs. 

Material handling is the movement, protection, storage and control of materials and products throughout manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, consumption and disposal. As a process, material handling incorporates a wide range of manual, semi-automated and automated equipment and systems that support logistics and make the supply chain work.

Pallets and packaging have a hard life. As they carry goods through the supply chain, they bump and skid against an unforgiving assortment of lift trucks, conveyors, trailers, automated storage, racks and even floors. And if that isn’t tough enough, packaging rarely enjoys the money and attention paid to all of its assailants.

Our friends at Ryson Spiral are doing some amazing things, keeping product moving in ultra tight and hard to reach areas.  

It sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? That an automation installation could pay for itself in just 36 months—or sooner? But it’s true. Depending on the level of automated system installed and the specific circumstances surrounding an operation’s current mode of operation, an investment in automated material handling systems and technologies could very well produce a three-year return on investment (ROI).

With a record 155,000 square feet of exhibit space reserved by nearly 350 companies back in December 2014, Modex 2016 will continue the show’s expansion in both solution offerings and popularity. Show sponsor MHI anticipates a total of 800 exhibits in the 250,000-square-foot space.

From our friends at Mallard Manufacturing regarding the many uses of gravity conveyor -

SpeedCell Storage Solutions (Booth 4527) introduced a new way to pick orders with its SpeedCell Cart at a Wednesday press conference. The cart allows users to fill, pick and stock products in a flexible and mobile manner.

Are you looking for a faster, simpler way to calculate dimensional weights and shipping rates?

Are you incurring unexpected freight charges due to discrepancies between your dimensional measurements and your carriers’ dim weight measurements?

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