Achieving the higher output, would normally have required the lengthening of the existing assembly line, to accommodate the additional operators needed.
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The system has been developed by Avery Weigh-Tronix and Erwin SICK.
He has worked as a logistician with international aid agency, Goal, for the past three years, and has just signed a new contract that will take him to Mozambique to continue doing humanitarian work.
On 29 December 2006 it set a new record for the tonnage of paper loaded out in one day with 2,774 tonnes.
The group operates under four principal brands; French Connection (FCUK), designer label Nicole Farhi, mail-order based TOAST and Great Plains.
With more than 20,000 product lines available in any one year and a programme of range development, this presents a major challenge to the warehouse and logistics team.
Alliance Flooring Distribution in Kidderminster was subsequently acquired in April 2005 taking the combined stock capacity of both companies’ to nearly a million square metres of carpet.
Automotive component manufacturer Webasto Roof Systems has increased storage density and picking efficiency with better stock rotation in the warehouse at its factory in Birmingham.
Last year, Argos installed Flowstore’s DuraFlow modular multi-wheel roller track system at its Lutterworth warehouse.
Direct Table Foods has installed £20m of pallet racking from Link 51, at its bacon processing factory in Bury St Edmunds.