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A central nervous system for right-sized packaging
At least part of future packaging success here sits in the cloud. Using cloud for packaging.

New resource center for weighing and dimensioning
Beyond its team of experts, Rice Lake has come up with an online guide to integrate a new cubing and weighing station into your shipping process.

Calculate the dimensions of packages, flats, tubes, pallets and more - all in record time!
Rice Lake’s iDimension Series calculates the dimensions of your packages, flats, polybags, tubes, irregular-shaped products and boxes with ease and incredible speed.

Interested in right sizing cartons for good?
It’s worth at least a few minutes to go down the rabbit hole of efficient cartonization. Besides lower packaging and shipping costs, right sizing cartons is a valuable sustainable practice.

Some new twists on an old measure
From what goes in packages to pallet loads on the warehouse floor and even artificial intelligence, dimensioning equipment has some new missions.

Cubing and Weighing: Right on the money
Cubing and weighing equipment helps companies make better use of their warehouse space, cut shipping costs and reduce errors.

A new take on dimensioning in the DC
Once confined to the shipping department, cubing systems are moving upstream to measure individual items and boxes as well as pallet loads to improve handling processes and cube utilization.

Packaging Corner: Packaging that fits also impresses
Ever receive a box too big for its contents? What’s worse, the shipper overpaid to ship an unnecessarily oversized box. Automated fit-to-size packaging solves both problems at once.

Parcel dimensioning minimizes freight costs for Packers Pro Shop
The Green Bay Packers use dimensioning systems to cost-effectively ship online orders. With machinery to right-size shipping cartons and dimensioning, freight costs are minimized.

About that breakthrough in cubing
At one point, it was all about dimensioning boxes for shipment. But e-commerce changed that as DCs needed to dimension what was going in the box. Doing that requires a new set of capabilities.

Toysmith implements new WMS
As a result, the toy manufacturer’s fill rate is now 83%, a rise of 15%.

Pallet Dimensioning Applications and Benefits
Inefficiently and inaccurately handled freight can eat away at profit for both shippers and carriers alike. That’s where pallet dimensioning systems step in.

Revive IT revamps packaging workflow with on-demand packaging
The new workflow is outperforming the company’s previous process considerably.

Cubing & Weighing: In the money
From slotting to shipping, dimensioning equipment delivers a rapid ROI as it provides data that expedites inventory movement at several nodes across the supply chain.

High-throughput system builds custom corrugated boxes
Automated packaging system builds custom shipping cartons around single-, multi-line orders every seven seconds.


May 2024 Modern Materials Handling

A complete modernization of the sortation and conveyance at Boscov’s DC, along with updated software and a new order processing area, have transformed the ability of the department store chain’s DC to move more cartons in less time, while permitting more frequent replenishment shipment for stores.

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