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Product: Food Distribution Design Challenge: Fresh from the field, potatoes are brought in bulk to a packing facility, where they are cleaned, sized, graded, and put into bags for shipment to supermarkets nationwide. To ensure that inventory is kept in near constant motion, the company needed a system that could turn 1,200 pallets of potatoes per day. Having a perishable product it was imperative to safely speed up the process within the tight timeframe if you want to preserve its integrity and value. |
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Solution: To ensure that inventory was kept in almost constant motion, CSS designed a system with the outside tracks consisting of single in-line wheels and the center track consisting of double staggered wheels on 3” centers and the CSS patented speed controller, each 3 pallets high X 10 pallets deep X 20 lanes across to accommodate their 1,200 pallets. The primary use of the system was for staging pallet loads of potatoes at the shipping dock, with each lane dedicated to a unique type of potato. By streamlining the handling of pallets, combined with the pick face being mere steps from the loading dock this allows them to load a truck within 30 minutes where in the past it could take anywhere from 1 to 3 hours. The savings has been considerable for them, considering that the facility ships some 15 to 20 trucks per day. |
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