Does your Company need Automated Material Handling?
Automating material handling is the call of time as it can not only improve quality and reduce costs for your company, but also create a safer working environment for workers. There is no doubt to the fact minimizing manual intervention in handling ingredients or components, work-in-process, and finished products can improve quality, productivity and operator well-being, while reducing costs.
There are several reasons why companies are switching over to automated material handling systems. Some of these are manpower reductions due to downsizing, eliminating or minimizing heavy lifting, repetitive motions and noise, faster movement of materials, customer demands for more customized and quality products, just-in-time delivery and order entry and receiving via electronic data interchange and so on.
Automated material handling can provide a means of documenting the manufacturing process as required for quality programs earning ISO 9000 registration. Such monitoring can not only improve quality, but can also boost throughput by identifying bottlenecks.
With real-time point-of-sale information changing the way products are manufactured from a push- to a pull-through on-demand process, there is growing interest in shipping mixed-load pallets and flexible material-handling equipment capable of assembling these customized collations.
Automated and smarter material handling devices with cut costs and lead to significant savings by cutting down 20% to 80% of an item’s cost attributable to distribution costs, sales commissions and wholesale and retail markup. This also improves manufacturing velocity and transportation system efficiency.
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