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Day: 11 January 2019

Omnichannel Warehouses in Focus for Vanderlande at LogiMAT

Posted on by David Priestman

Dutch warehouse automation specialist Vanderlande (Hall 1, J21) will showcase its next generation of scalable solutions for the fashion, food and general merchandise markets at LogiMAT 2019 next month. The company’s evolutions have been specifically designed to meet the challenges facing ecommerce and omni-channel warehouses.

Visitors to LogiMAT will be able to learn more about Vanderlande’s latest instalment of ADAPTO. This unique 3D automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS), with built-in sorting and sequencing capabilities, is an important aspect of Vanderlande’s FASTPICK and STOREPICK evolutions. In addition, Vanderlande will showcase ‘bin-to-bin’ and ‘bin-to-belt’ item picking at LogiMAT, as well as Smart Item Robotics (SIR). The latter is a low-risk automatic item picking solution based on a collaborative robot (or, ‘cobot’) that can safely work together with operators. This revolutionary new cobot handles dynamic product ranges without the need for SKU teaching.

Vanderlande will also be co-exhibiting at the Messe Stuttgart with sister-company Toyota Material Handling Germany in Hall 2, Stand A05 – where the TRAYSORTER, a solution for sorting flexibility, will be showcased.

 

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Omnichannel Warehouses in Focus for Vanderlande at LogiMAT

Posted on by David Priestman

Dutch warehouse automation specialist Vanderlande (Hall 1, J21) will showcase its next generation of scalable solutions for the fashion, food and general merchandise markets at LogiMAT 2019 next month. The company’s evolutions have been specifically designed to meet the challenges facing ecommerce and omni-channel warehouses.

Visitors to LogiMAT will be able to learn more about Vanderlande’s latest instalment of ADAPTO. This unique 3D automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS), with built-in sorting and sequencing capabilities, is an important aspect of Vanderlande’s FASTPICK and STOREPICK evolutions. In addition, Vanderlande will showcase ‘bin-to-bin’ and ‘bin-to-belt’ item picking at LogiMAT, as well as Smart Item Robotics (SIR). The latter is a low-risk automatic item picking solution based on a collaborative robot (or, ‘cobot’) that can safely work together with operators. This revolutionary new cobot handles dynamic product ranges without the need for SKU teaching.

Vanderlande will also be co-exhibiting at the Messe Stuttgart with sister-company Toyota Material Handling Germany in Hall 2, Stand A05 – where the TRAYSORTER, a solution for sorting flexibility, will be showcased.

 

Omnichannel Warehouses in Focus for Vanderlande at LogiMAT

Posted on by David Priestman

Dutch warehouse automation specialist Vanderlande (Hall 1, J21) will showcase its next generation of scalable solutions for the fashion, food and general merchandise markets at LogiMAT 2019 next month. The company’s evolutions have been specifically designed to meet the challenges facing ecommerce and omni-channel warehouses.

Visitors to LogiMAT will be able to learn more about Vanderlande’s latest instalment of ADAPTO. This unique 3D automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS), with built-in sorting and sequencing capabilities, is an important aspect of Vanderlande’s FASTPICK and STOREPICK evolutions. In addition, Vanderlande will showcase ‘bin-to-bin’ and ‘bin-to-belt’ item picking at LogiMAT, as well as Smart Item Robotics (SIR). The latter is a low-risk automatic item picking solution based on a collaborative robot (or, ‘cobot’) that can safely work together with operators. This revolutionary new cobot handles dynamic product ranges without the need for SKU teaching.

Vanderlande will also be co-exhibiting at the Messe Stuttgart with sister-company Toyota Material Handling Germany in Hall 2, Stand A05 – where the TRAYSORTER, a solution for sorting flexibility, will be showcased.

 

Paragon Logistics Software Transforms Ops for Biomass Supplier

Posted on by Paul Hamblin

AMP Clean Energy, formerly Forest Fuels, a UK biomass wood fuel supplier, has selected Paragon’s route optimization software and fleXipod ePOD system. The company has adopted the integrated logistics solution to tackle the challenges created by rapid business growth, extended peak periods and changing customer expectations.

In the last two years the company has expanded its specialist fleet of commercial vehicles from 14 to more than 40 to meet the growing demand for wood pellet and wood chip fuel. The fuels business now delivers to around 4,000 customers using a range of blower, tipped, walking floor and palletized options, enabling it to offer the most suitable delivery choice for each customer’s needs.

“We serve customers in sectors as diverse as education, healthcare, hospitality and agriculture,” continues Vick. “With 900 deliveries a week in the peak season, it is vitally important to the efficiency of our operation that the right vehicle is used for each delivery. Our planning team has to factor in a number of parameters to ensure deliveries are achievable, but also to ensure that they happen on time, every time.”

The Paragon software was selected based on its proven ability to reduce planning time for complex transport operations and achieve measurable efficiency improvements. The seamless integration of the route optimisation software with the fleXipod ePOD system was also identified as a unique capability that could improve real-time visibility and customer engagement, so was key to the final decision.

A team of planners will use the Paragon route optimisation software to create weekly plans, with daily routes and schedules refined and finalised the day before, helping AMP Clean Energy to always deliver on their service promise. As well as dramatically streamlining the planning process, the company will be able to use the strategic capabilities of Paragon’s software to identify areas of operational improvement, such as a potential annual fuel saving of 10 to 14 per cent.

Going forward AMP Clean Energy will be able to provide automated SMS updates to confirm the date of delivery and provide a two to three hour time window on the day. Meanwhile, fleXipod will allow the company to further enhance customer communications as well as streamline back office systems by initiating the invoicing process immediately proof of delivery is received.

William Salter, Managing Director of Paragon Software Systems comments: “The biomass fuel sector is a relatively young industry. Leading companies such as AMP Clean Energy are having to handle rapid levels of growth, while continuing to meet customer needs in an efficient and sustainable way. Our logistics software, combined with the expertise of our support team, helps customers to create efficient transport operations that underpin the ability to deliver on their customer promise.”

Paragon Logistics Software Transforms Ops for Biomass Supplier

Posted on by Paul Hamblin

AMP Clean Energy, formerly Forest Fuels, a UK biomass wood fuel supplier, has selected Paragon’s route optimization software and fleXipod ePOD system. The company has adopted the integrated logistics solution to tackle the challenges created by rapid business growth, extended peak periods and changing customer expectations.

In the last two years the company has expanded its specialist fleet of commercial vehicles from 14 to more than 40 to meet the growing demand for wood pellet and wood chip fuel. The fuels business now delivers to around 4,000 customers using a range of blower, tipped, walking floor and palletized options, enabling it to offer the most suitable delivery choice for each customer’s needs.

“We serve customers in sectors as diverse as education, healthcare, hospitality and agriculture,” continues Vick. “With 900 deliveries a week in the peak season, it is vitally important to the efficiency of our operation that the right vehicle is used for each delivery. Our planning team has to factor in a number of parameters to ensure deliveries are achievable, but also to ensure that they happen on time, every time.”

The Paragon software was selected based on its proven ability to reduce planning time for complex transport operations and achieve measurable efficiency improvements. The seamless integration of the route optimisation software with the fleXipod ePOD system was also identified as a unique capability that could improve real-time visibility and customer engagement, so was key to the final decision.

A team of planners will use the Paragon route optimisation software to create weekly plans, with daily routes and schedules refined and finalised the day before, helping AMP Clean Energy to always deliver on their service promise. As well as dramatically streamlining the planning process, the company will be able to use the strategic capabilities of Paragon’s software to identify areas of operational improvement, such as a potential annual fuel saving of 10 to 14 per cent.

Going forward AMP Clean Energy will be able to provide automated SMS updates to confirm the date of delivery and provide a two to three hour time window on the day. Meanwhile, fleXipod will allow the company to further enhance customer communications as well as streamline back office systems by initiating the invoicing process immediately proof of delivery is received.

William Salter, Managing Director of Paragon Software Systems comments: “The biomass fuel sector is a relatively young industry. Leading companies such as AMP Clean Energy are having to handle rapid levels of growth, while continuing to meet customer needs in an efficient and sustainable way. Our logistics software, combined with the expertise of our support team, helps customers to create efficient transport operations that underpin the ability to deliver on their customer promise.”

BITO’s EQ Container Fleet Returns Client Investment in One Year

Posted on by David Priestman

BITO Storage Systems has provided Parker Hannifin’s Engine Mobile Filtration Division with a fleet of its EQ Collapsible containers to replace cardboard boxes in a continuous cycle between itself and a supplier. In addition to offering improved product protection, the cost-saving fleet of BITO containers will pay for itself within one year. This results from eliminating the need to pay for cardboard disposal using a compactor – a time wasting process that previously occupied a member of staff.

Parker Hannifin’s Engine Mobile Filtration Division EMEA designs and manufactures engine filtration solutions for leading global OEMs, predominantly in the heavy-duty transportation market.

The end caps for the top and bottom of its fuel filter water separators are supplied to Parker Hannifin’s plant in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire by a company in the West Midlands. They were using cardboard boxes that, when emptied of the caps, required disposal. This incurred cost and soaked up time and manpower.

Seeking to reduce supply chain costs, Parker Hannifin sought an alternative to the cardboard packaging in which the filter end caps were supplied. The company turned to BITO Storage Systems, which had supplied plastic containers for other jobs within the company.

After trialling BITO’s EQ collapsible container for a month, Parker Hannifin deemed it to be the ideal replacement for the cardboard boxes, leading to BITO supplying 1515 containers. This enabled a fleet of EQs to be in constant circulation: with 500 containers being filled by the supplier; 500 in transit to Dewsbury; and 500 being emptied at Dewsbury before being collapsed, ready to be returned to the supplier in the West Midlands. The remaining 15 containers are held as spares.

When arriving at Parker Hannifin, the containers full of filter end caps are stacked within racking. When required, containers are taken from the racking, the shrinkwrap is removed, and they are placed on dollies to be wheeled into the assembly area. Here three full containers of end caps will sit on inclined shelving next to where operators build a filter. When the container is empty, it is collapsed and stacked ready to return to the supplier.

BITO’s EQ folding boxes are made of high quality plastic and feature an ingenious yet simple seesaw locking/unlocking mechanism developed in cooperation with leading ergonomists. The 600 x 400 mm footprint and a height of 285 mm gives a very useable volume of 58 litres.

Other EQ characteristics that appealed to Parker Hannifin included a 20 kg load capacity, which comfortably accommodates the weight of its products. The containers are stackable up to six high but can also collapse to an impressive space saving 75% of volume for the return part of the cycle. Throughout the cycle the containers provide improved protection of the product and stamped with company’s name on their side they are easily identifiable. In addition, the EQ’s internal label holder keeps label secure within the internal wallet. Parker Hannifin experienced problems in past with labels stuck on the outside of cardboard boxes peeling off.

 

BITO’s EQ Container Fleet Returns Client Investment in One Year

Posted on by David Priestman

BITO Storage Systems has provided Parker Hannifin’s Engine Mobile Filtration Division with a fleet of its EQ Collapsible containers to replace cardboard boxes in a continuous cycle between itself and a supplier. In addition to offering improved product protection, the cost-saving fleet of BITO containers will pay for itself within one year. This results from eliminating the need to pay for cardboard disposal using a compactor – a time wasting process that previously occupied a member of staff.

Parker Hannifin’s Engine Mobile Filtration Division EMEA designs and manufactures engine filtration solutions for leading global OEMs, predominantly in the heavy-duty transportation market.

The end caps for the top and bottom of its fuel filter water separators are supplied to Parker Hannifin’s plant in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire by a company in the West Midlands. They were using cardboard boxes that, when emptied of the caps, required disposal. This incurred cost and soaked up time and manpower.

Seeking to reduce supply chain costs, Parker Hannifin sought an alternative to the cardboard packaging in which the filter end caps were supplied. The company turned to BITO Storage Systems, which had supplied plastic containers for other jobs within the company.

After trialling BITO’s EQ collapsible container for a month, Parker Hannifin deemed it to be the ideal replacement for the cardboard boxes, leading to BITO supplying 1515 containers. This enabled a fleet of EQs to be in constant circulation: with 500 containers being filled by the supplier; 500 in transit to Dewsbury; and 500 being emptied at Dewsbury before being collapsed, ready to be returned to the supplier in the West Midlands. The remaining 15 containers are held as spares.

When arriving at Parker Hannifin, the containers full of filter end caps are stacked within racking. When required, containers are taken from the racking, the shrinkwrap is removed, and they are placed on dollies to be wheeled into the assembly area. Here three full containers of end caps will sit on inclined shelving next to where operators build a filter. When the container is empty, it is collapsed and stacked ready to return to the supplier.

BITO’s EQ folding boxes are made of high quality plastic and feature an ingenious yet simple seesaw locking/unlocking mechanism developed in cooperation with leading ergonomists. The 600 x 400 mm footprint and a height of 285 mm gives a very useable volume of 58 litres.

Other EQ characteristics that appealed to Parker Hannifin included a 20 kg load capacity, which comfortably accommodates the weight of its products. The containers are stackable up to six high but can also collapse to an impressive space saving 75% of volume for the return part of the cycle. Throughout the cycle the containers provide improved protection of the product and stamped with company’s name on their side they are easily identifiable. In addition, the EQ’s internal label holder keeps label secure within the internal wallet. Parker Hannifin experienced problems in past with labels stuck on the outside of cardboard boxes peeling off.

 

BITO’s EQ Container Fleet Returns Client Investment in One Year

Posted on by David Priestman

BITO Storage Systems has provided Parker Hannifin’s Engine Mobile Filtration Division with a fleet of its EQ Collapsible containers to replace cardboard boxes in a continuous cycle between itself and a supplier. In addition to offering improved product protection, the cost-saving fleet of BITO containers will pay for itself within one year. This results from eliminating the need to pay for cardboard disposal using a compactor – a time wasting process that previously occupied a member of staff.

Parker Hannifin’s Engine Mobile Filtration Division EMEA designs and manufactures engine filtration solutions for leading global OEMs, predominantly in the heavy-duty transportation market.

The end caps for the top and bottom of its fuel filter water separators are supplied to Parker Hannifin’s plant in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire by a company in the West Midlands. They were using cardboard boxes that, when emptied of the caps, required disposal. This incurred cost and soaked up time and manpower.

Seeking to reduce supply chain costs, Parker Hannifin sought an alternative to the cardboard packaging in which the filter end caps were supplied. The company turned to BITO Storage Systems, which had supplied plastic containers for other jobs within the company.

After trialling BITO’s EQ collapsible container for a month, Parker Hannifin deemed it to be the ideal replacement for the cardboard boxes, leading to BITO supplying 1515 containers. This enabled a fleet of EQs to be in constant circulation: with 500 containers being filled by the supplier; 500 in transit to Dewsbury; and 500 being emptied at Dewsbury before being collapsed, ready to be returned to the supplier in the West Midlands. The remaining 15 containers are held as spares.

When arriving at Parker Hannifin, the containers full of filter end caps are stacked within racking. When required, containers are taken from the racking, the shrinkwrap is removed, and they are placed on dollies to be wheeled into the assembly area. Here three full containers of end caps will sit on inclined shelving next to where operators build a filter. When the container is empty, it is collapsed and stacked ready to return to the supplier.

BITO’s EQ folding boxes are made of high quality plastic and feature an ingenious yet simple seesaw locking/unlocking mechanism developed in cooperation with leading ergonomists. The 600 x 400 mm footprint and a height of 285 mm gives a very useable volume of 58 litres.

Other EQ characteristics that appealed to Parker Hannifin included a 20 kg load capacity, which comfortably accommodates the weight of its products. The containers are stackable up to six high but can also collapse to an impressive space saving 75% of volume for the return part of the cycle. Throughout the cycle the containers provide improved protection of the product and stamped with company’s name on their side they are easily identifiable. In addition, the EQ’s internal label holder keeps label secure within the internal wallet. Parker Hannifin experienced problems in past with labels stuck on the outside of cardboard boxes peeling off.

 

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