The new UltraStore Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) from Integrated Systems Design, Wixom, Mich., provides up to 85% space savings for refrigerated and frozen food items, cases, pallets and custom materials with unique sizes and dimensions.
The latest generation of ASRS allow deep-freeze warehouses to maintain precision product identification and rotation, provide rapid throughput at near 100% accuracy levels and are considerably more energy-efficient than traditional automated systems.
Wawa’s high-volume distribution center in Wawa, Pa., sports a high-bay chilled warehouse that moves 42,000 crates of liquid products daily with an accuracy rate exceeding 99.9%.
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Automation's new ViperTilt tray system provides ergonomic order picking of parts
and items for increased levels of ergonomics, accuracy and productivity.
Automated material handling solutions providers Intelligrated, Mason, Ohio, and Swisslog Holding AG, Buchs, Switzerland, said they formed a strategic alliance in North America to serve food, beverage and retail markets.
France's SAVOYE said its Chicago-based subsidiary, SAVOYE Inc., purchased Retrotech Inc., a Fishers, N.Y., firm specializing in the design, installation, modernization, and support of automated material handling systems.
A M King Construction, Charlotte, N.C., said it broke ground for a 103,000-square-foot fresh bun bakery and distribution center in Clayton, N.C., (see image, left) for Northeast Foods Inc.