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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About 20 per cent of all components stored in warehouses take more than 10 minutes to retrieve, according to a survey by automated storage and retrieval specialist Kardex.
The system has been developed by Avery Weigh-Tronix and Erwin SICK.
Transdek UK has produced a mobile lifting platform that can be used to load and unload double-stacked containers, allowing customers such as multiple retailers to increase their external storage capacity at lower cost.
On 29 December 2006 it set a new record for the tonnage of paper loaded out in one day with 2,774 tonnes.
ABX Belgium Distribution has chosen FKI Logistex for a 1.
Oakland International is launching a parcel service for sending chilled and frozen samples through an ambient supply chain.
Magline has launched its Powered Gemini hand delivery truck which it reckons is the first of its kind to be launched in the UK.
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With land values continuing to rise and labour becoming more expensive and harder to find, will 2007 herald a golden age for warehouse automation? James Falkner reports.
