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Warehouse automation solutions: Crown
Equipment Corp. has added two new components to its automation solutions portfolio,
which is designed to help customers increase
throughput capacity, optimize existing facilities to meet changing market conditions, and
mitigate business disruptions.
Crown’s new Auto Positioning System
enables a forklift to take the most effective
route to the next rack location. When a
pick location is entered manually or shared
through a linked warehouse management
system, the Auto Positioning System controls
the truck’s blend of lift and travel to optimize
the time required to reach and automatically
stop at the rack location. Implementations
have demonstrated that customers stand to
gain up to a 25-percent improvement in productivity compared with having the operator
manually drive down the aisle to the pick
location and lift the forks to the required
height, the company says.
The new Auto Fence operator-assist technology promotes safety and helps reduce the
risk of product, truck, and facility damage.
This is accomplished by using RFID tags to
set up speed or height zones in very narrow
aisles, automatically slowing travel speed,
stopping, or limiting truck height based on
the location of the truck.
The Auto Positioning System and Auto
Fence are available on new Crown TSP
Series turret trucks or as a retrofit option for
Crown TSP Series trucks in the field. (Crown
Equipment Corp., www.crown.com)
WMS apps: Warehouse management system (WMS) developer DMLogic LLC has
launched two new products based on its
STEPLogic software development platform.
STEPLogic Trace is a serialization solution
designed for the prescription drug and med-ical-device sector that supports cradle-to-grave tracking within the distribution center.
In compliance with the Drug Supply Chain
Safety Act (DSCSA), the product allows manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to meet
federal requirements mandating that they
be able to track, trace, and report on the
movement of all products through the supply
chain.
STEPLogic Warehouse is a WMS platform
designed and priced to support small to
medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by allowing
users to quickly build personalized apps that
sit on top of their existing WMS and manage
everything from basic picking and packing
to advanced value-added services. (DMLogic
LLC, www.dmlogicllc.com)
Online warehouse support tool: Raymond Handling Concepts Corp. (RHCC) has
unveiled Warehouse Genius, an online support tool that provides fast access to its
material handling experts.
Warehouse Genius is a complimentary service where anyone in the industry can
submit a warehouse management question, no matter how simple or complex, the
company says. Users fill out a short form on the RHCC website with a question that
is submitted directly to the company’s team of material handling experts. Questions
are answered in 48 hours with an e-mail outlining the optimal solution. (Raymond
Handling Concepts Corp., www.raymondhandling.com)
