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Automated receiving captures real dimensions, weights, and counts at the dock, enhancing warehouse master data and protecting your downstream automation.
Automation enhances your workforce rather than replacing it. See how SLAM automation reduces fatigue, builds new skills, and boosts productivity.
SLAM design starts with smoothing your final 100 feet processes before adding automation, ensuring the investment delivers a real ROI.
Avoiding bottlenecks takes more than picking automation. Learn how SLAM (shipping, labeling, applying, manifesting) keeps your warehouse flowing.
The Challenge: Container unloading is slow At a 104,000 square-meter distribution center in Poland, handling Home and Garden products, container unloading was slow, labor-intensive, and physically demanding. Loose goods made up the majority of inbound shipments, and product variety addedcomplexity to every load.The Solution: Destuff-it™ portable ergonomic conveyor system The operation deployed the Destuff-it™ container unloading system to replace manualunloading with a safer, high-throughput process designed for loose, mixed freight.
Frogg Toggs, a retail store offering outdoor clothing and gear, faced inefficiencies in container unloading due to manual methods. Their full-spectrum distribution center supports both big-box retail and direct-to-consumer fulfillment. With no associates dedicated solely to container unloading, speed andefficiency are critical—every minute saved gets employees back to their primary roles.The Solution: Destuff-it™ portable ergonomic conveyor system. The operation implemented the Destuff-it™ container unloading system to service four receiving doors. The unit is mobile, allowing it to service all four dock doors.
The Challenge: Manual transloading at scale Averitt, an award-winning freight transportation and supply chain services provider, faced a significant logistical bottleneck at their distribution centers. The company handles between 2,000 to 3,000 containers annually and relied on a manual transloading process for floor-loaded import/export cargo.This manual approach created three critical issues. Unloading a single trailer was a grueling 12-hour process that tied up dock doors and personnel. The physically demanding nature of lifting and twisting with heavy cartons led to a higher risk of lower back injuries. Consequently, the difficulty of the job negatively impacted associate morale and led to increased turnover rates in a competitive labor market.
This document is intended for all audiences wanting to learn about ways of implementing sustainable practices for the e-commerce/ order fulfillment industry. It will provide trends, solutions, and benefits for various departments, whether you are in operations, supply chain, logistics, marketing, upper management, or simply have specific focus on packaging.
An automation integrator required a pallet labeling system for a new pallet line they were installing. The end-user needed four labels applied to each pallet – two on each adjacent side. One label needed to be printed and applied on demand and the other preprinted product identification label just needed to be applied. The pallet would stop on the pallet conveyor to be labeled.
Tension Packaging & Automation is a global leader in complete packaging and automation solutions. Specializing in a wide variety of results-driven processes, we offer customers expertise in project design, machine development and software integration. Our broad support for automation includes manufacturing, installation, equipment, consumables, robotics and full life-cycle service and support.
Gorbel provides an ergonomic solution optimizing unloading activities for a large retail outfitter.
Gorbel provides an ergonomic solution increasing productivity and reducing turnover rates for a large retail outfitter.
What can you expect when transitioning from manual packing stations to automated processes? How do you integrate new WMS applications with ease? This MHI Tech Talk invites Kyle Smith, Gina Baldwin, and Greg Berguig to address what supply chain professionals need to do when integrating new packing solutions.
Revolutionize supply chains with SLAM Systems – Scan, Label, Apply, Manifest. Experience a new era of efficiency today
Revolutionize supply chains with SLAM Systems – Scan, Label, Apply, Manifest. Watch as innovation eliminates labor hurdles, boosts throughput, and ensures peak performance. Experience a new era of efficiency today
The last 100 feet in the warehouse are particularly important. The last thing you want is a bottleneck in your facility. That’s where SLAM comes in. This MHI industry group added in 2021 aims to optimize this part of your distribution center.
The supply chain is a long and complicated mechanism with many moving parts. From the point of manufacturing to the last 100 feet, this is an industry that has solutions for every touchpoint along the way. In this episode of MHI cast, we’ll be focusing on that last 100 feet as we talk to the Chair and Vice-Chair of MHI’s newest industry group, SLAM – Scan, Label, Apply, Manifest.