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GENCO Dry Foods Chooses Total-Trax For Its Lemoyne, PA, Distribution Center

Provides automatic pallet identification and unit load tracking.

Fast Forward to Today: Sobey's Automated Grocery Distribution Center in Canada is Ahead of its Time

The grocery distribution center of the future has arrived—Sobey Inc.’s new automated facility in Canada. At the heart of the DC is a case picking system that can handle 320,000 cases per day.

STORE READY: Products are placed on trays, where they make their way to the selection area to be stored. When a store order comes in, they will be automatically sent to a pallet.

Material Handling Equipment

Flexible Storage Solutions

PAS Americas is rethinking warehouse automation with a new line of solutions.

PALLET POWER: PowerStage, which works in conjunction with PowerStor and PowerBuild, is a flexible, high speed pallet staging system.

Slotting Pays Off For Smart & Final

Retailer reaps significant labor savings and productivity improvement with solution from Optricity.

TRAVEL LIGHTLY: By reconfiguring the direction and the placement of case flow racks and pick pack sequence, Smart & Final was able to reduce more than 10 percent of the total travel time from the pick path.

Fresh Delivery

European retailer EDEKA relies on automation to deliver its own private label sausages, beef and pork.

WHERE'S THE MEAT? More than 180 tons of portioned fresh meat is processed at the Bauerngut plant each day.

Dock Safety: Where There's A Wheel, There's A Way

Molson-Coors Brewery and Southern Wine & Spirits of Arizona have had no accidents at their docks since switching to the Power Chock from GRM Safety Inc.

SIMPLE, YET EFFECTIVE: The Power Chock prevents early departure and trailer creep.

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Cargill Completes Installation Of Retrotech Automation System

Partnership delivers project on time with no surprises.

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Easy Maintenance By Design

Lift truck manufacturers are designing features to make PMs simpler.

STICK TO THE SCHEDULE: Whether lift truck maintenance is done in-house or contracted out, sticking to the maintenance schedule can go a long way in keeping your fleet in tip-top shape.

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Dematic Introduces Alert Monitoring Service

Dematic Corporation

New software allows constant view of material handling systems.

Optricity Unveils Smart & Final Case Study At Annual WERC Conference

Warehouse slotting surpasses distribution center improvements to benefit retail stores.

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Selecting a Sortation System

Check storage requirements, shipping specifications and future goals to determine if an automated sortation system is right for your operation.

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Automation Domination

Grocery wholesalers and food distributors are jumping on the automation bandwagon.

MIXING IT UP: An ergonomic manually assisted palletizer system builds mixed cases for a grocery retailer.

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