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Eagle Rock rolls on with motor-driven roller conveyor
Motor-driven roller conveyor is at the heart of a new order fulfillment system at the beverage distributor’s facility. The result is more space for storage and more efficient picking.

Eagle Rock: Automation with a purpose
Layer picking lift trucks and motor-driven roller conveyor power Eagle Rock’s new order fulfillment system.

Food supplier automates inventory tracking
New real-time manufacturing inventory and pallet tracking solution helps improve efficiency and customer service.

Beverage distributor implements conveyor and sortation system
Beverage distributor implements a conveyor and sortation system to process 200,000 bottles a day out of two Michigan warehouses.

Packaging Corner: Government regulations for food supply chain to affect handling, pallet use
The packaging industry braces for new regulations resulting from the Food Safety Modernization Act.

Safeway expands usage of reusable shipping containers for produce
Food retailer switches to reusable product containers and removes more than 17 million pounds of corrugated from supply chain.

Food and Beverage: Keeping up with the SKUs
The food and beverage sector is ripe with unique and difficult materials handling challenges due in part to the growing number of product choices. Here’s a look at how technology can help keep the shelves stocked and the customer satisfied.

Packaging Corner: Pallets take their own temperature
To combat waste in the food supply chain, packaging companies are employing technology to monitor goods.

Preferred Freezer Services: Very cool automation
Preferred Freezer Services takes materials handling automation to a new level in a New Jersey warehouse.

Preferred Freezer Services system walk-through
Preferred Freezer Services’s new facility maximizes throughput while minimizing labor and energy consumption.

New bottle packer increases speed while reducing glass breakage for distilled spirits maker
Design of the machine allows the bottler to reduce costs by using thinner glass

Real-time track and trace for 3PL
RJW’s cloud-based WMS provides real-time visibility into orders and inventory for the 3PL and its customers.

Best practices for managing a cold storage warehouse
Managing a cold storage warehouse successfully is a balance between maintaining the right temperature and maintaining throughput.

Palletizing: Microbrewer palletizes product in a compact footprint
A microbrewer with major appeal installs robust end-of-the-line palletizer that satisfies a round of palletizing specs.

From warehouse to refrigerator in one week
Flexible walls provide temperature zoning for cheese warehouse in record time.


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, with fewer labor resources, while permitting more frequent replenishment shipment for stores.

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