Case Studies

1) Accident Prevention Worth It’s Weight

The safety manager worries about twisted knees, broken ankles, medical bills, recovery periods, new recruits and overtime. He is not a coach, yet he has responsibility for 13 “teams.” ...

2) Automatic Guided Vehicles Work Beside Employees in a Distrubtion Center

This AGV system provides all of the routine product movements to support a retail distribution center using a person to goods picking strategy. The guided vehicles move pallets (full ...

3) Back Saving Pallet Level Loaders Win Accolades from Workers

Preprinted newspaper inserts are fed into inserting drums at the rate of 25,000 per hour at the newspaper plant. At that speed, a pallet load of 14,000 inserts goes down pretty fast. ...

4) Case Study: The original Polymer Guard Rails for VF’s newest DC.

The case study explains how Boplan provided polymer ( plastic ) guard rails, hand rails, traffic barriers and other safety products from the Flex Impact by Boplan product line to protect ...

5) Catwalk Solution Bridges Old and New Mezzanine

A world class dairy producer needed a cost effective way to gain more space without adding on to the existing building. Specifically, the solution would optimize existing space as ...

6) Compact, Unique Merging Solution Saves DC $240,000

A major global apparel manufacturer initiated a project to replace two of its distribution facilities with one new, efficient, ergonomic building.

7) 90-Degree Sorter Feeds Palletizer in a Compact Footprint

The client was planning to build a new palletizing area—composed of nine conveying lines feeding three robots. The company needed a flexible system to handle its variety of products ...

8) Dock Equipment Marries Safety and Sustainability

A leading global provider of commercial cleaning and hygiene products wanted to acquire LEED® Certification for their 550,000 sq. ft. distribution center. The facility set up the ...

9) Dock Leveler Inspection Plate Reduces Air Flow in Food Facilities during Scheduled Maintenance

Dozens of Fortune 500 companies have saved thousands of dollars in energy costs while reducing the possibility of insect or rodent infiltration by specifying a maintenance inspection ...

10) High Capacity Conveying & Sorting System Reduces Operating Costs, Improves Service to Customers

Southern Wine’s distribution facilities provide next-day delivery to almost 140,000 customers. Orders received by 5:00 pm are delivered the following day. The company is constantly ...

11) High Speed VRC for Disney Gift Shop

Disney was in the process of updating its inventory storage and retrieval system behind the scenes of its gift shop to better automate the movement of inventory from below-ground storage ...

12) Internet Retailer Optimizes Fulfillment with Zone Routing Conveyor Network

Newegg's growing business and focus on customer satisfaction required increased capacity and service levels for customers on the East Coast. The company invested in a new distribution ...

13) INTRALOX’S ARB MERGE ELIMINATES POLY-BAG JAMS FOR A LARGE RETAIL DISTRIBUTION CENTER

At its distribution centers, the retailer routinely handled clothing packed in polyethylene bags. Because poly bags lack flat bottoms, they could not be effectively conveyed along the ...

14) Machine Guarding For a Medical Products Distribution Center

An international producer of surgical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and vision care products required machine guarding for two processing cells at its Huntington, WV facility. The customer ...

15) Maximize Use Of Space To Consolidate Storage To One Location

Using a combination of shelving and pallet racks, space and efficiency was maximized, allowing the customer to consolidate warehousing to one location. Just two building blocks (frame ...