| Problem...A Fortune-500 tool manufacturer planned a major new warehouse construction project in Fort Mill, SC, to consolidate half a dozen smaller warehouse facilities. The new facility would produce a large cost-savings and would easily handle 50 semiloads of new stock daily. The rack portion would be planned around a very narrow row aisle (VNA) wireguided vehicle. The proposed new building, equipment and moving expenses represented a substantial cost. But the monthly cost savings of the consolidation were expected to pay back the initial investment in a little over 3 years.... |
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| Problem...A major supplier of frozen poultry products throughout the U.S., located in Muldrow, OK, needed a new plant to individually package and freeze chicken and store the finished products. The new storage facility was needed to hold more than 8,000 pallets of frozen foods for a minimum cost, best utilization and product rotation.... |
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| Problem...Available space for a maintenance storage facility was the problem of a not-for-profit electric generation and transmission plant located in Rome, GA. They started by converting a fifth level corridor into a storage facility designed to house all fast moving maintenance items needed to keep the power plant operational. The corridor selected had been unusable space being 350 ' in length, 18 ' high and 15 ' wide. The inventory requirements were diverse, needing to organize thousands of different sized parts from nuts and bolts to larger parts weighing up to 1,350 pounds.... |
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| Problem...A distribution center near Carlisle, PA, for a chocolate and confectionery producer needed a 435,000 sq. ft. warehouse filled with a storage system that could withstand a high incidence of truck-rack collisions during the center's first few months of operation. Since the center was built rather quickly and almost all of its employees were new in the company and without previous material handling experience, the management correctly anticipated a high incidence of truck-rack collisions during the center's first few months of operation.
Prior to construction of the center, the company used about 250,000 sq. ft. of an old factory structure designed before the forklift era. Only two-high stacking was possible at this location. Another 140,000 sq. ft. facility completed the scattered public warehousing which served as the storage mix.... |
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| Problem...One of the nations's largest providers of contract warehousing space was involved in the construction of a new facility in Ontario, California for a large pharmaceutical manufacturing client. Strict seismic building codes were required by the city of Ontario. The biggest challenge was the urgent requirement for the client to vacate his current facility.... |
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