Case Studies

1) Faster Order Processing for Delivery within 24 Hours

Wildkamp is a technical wholesaler located in Coevorden, Netherlands. Wildkamp was looking for a solution that combined saving space, shorter travel times, less personnel, faster order ...

2) A Cutting Edge Facility Upgrade for a High Precision Machine Manufacturer

Since 1953 Park Industries, located in St. Cloud, MN has manufactured stone working machines that cut, polish and edge stone into slabs for commercial and home use. Knowing they needed ...

3) Diversco Supply Expands Vertically with Shuttle XP VLMs

Diversco Supply is nothing less than a Canadian success story. Founded in 1986, they quickly became a leading equipment wholesaler in the gas industry; eventually evolving into watersports ...

4) TSC Chooses Megamat RS Vertical Carousels for Jewelry Distribution

Headquartered in Mississauga, ON, TSC is a leading interactive, multi-channel retailer, offering a vast assortment of exclusive products and top brand names to customers throughout ...

5) Vertical Storage and Retrieval Systems Help Meet Cost, Ergonomic & Efficiency Goals

When this health care and health maintenance organization decided to consolidate its Mid-Atlantic regional testing laboratory operations, management looked at alternative approaches ...

6) Distributor Fulfills Promise to Customers By Keeping Parts Available for 20+ Years

Introducing groundbreaking tractor and utility vehicles for construction, commercial and residential use for 36 years gives this company a reputation for equipment that lasts. Their ...

7) Horizontal Carousels Add Speed, Efficiency and Confidence to Aftermarket Parts Picking Operation

This distribution company provides aftermarket parts for a secondary equipment company. It is critical to their operation that they get part orders shipped the day they are placed by ...

8) Upgrading To An Automated Facility Reaps Benefits

With the trend toward high productive, multitasking machines, quick response with repair parts and onsite service in order to keep machine utilization at a high level have taken on ...

9) Streamlining Aftermarket Fulfillment Increases Efficiencies

This industrial manufacturer of 150 years has decided to move the work of one facility into two existing facilities, which is no easy feat. With the help of ten horizontal carousels, ...

10) Automation Provides Assembly Expansion While Adding Part Capacity

The installation of VLMs allow a company to reclaim approximately 1,600 square feet of floor space which could then be used for production, rather than storage. The VLMs also automatically ...

11) Hospital Supply Distributor Increases Throughput by 500%

A health center in Vancouver teamed up with a general hospital in Richmond to consolidate their separate medical supply warehouses. Consolidating inventory, the health care facilities ...

12) Fragrance Distributor Uses Horizontal Carousels to Speed Order Processing Time

Handling 4,900 SKUs and shipping over 3,000 orders per day, distribution methods for a major fragrance company had changed from full-case shipping to retail distribution centers to ...

13) VALVE MANUFACTURER USES VLMs TO ELIMINATE BRICK AND MORTAR EXPANSION

A valve manufacturer was faced with the need to consolidate two facilities into one, including inventory used in operations. “Why don’t we take advantage of unused overhead space by ...

14) Vertical Lift Modules Regain Floor Space and Increase Productivity

By replacing pallet rack with five Vertical Lift Modules (VLMs), a hardware manufacturer regained 5,000 square feet of floor space and increased productivity by 22%. The VLMs eliminated ...

15) PARTS DISTRIBUTION CENTER USES HORIZONTAL CAROUSELS TO INCREASE THROUGHPUT BY 344%

A significant growth in sales presented a Canadian parts distributor with a challenge: an increase in orders meant they needed to process orders faster. To answer their customers’ demands ...