Since its foundation, Natural & Organic Food has achieved an impressive growth. Currently is the nation´s distribution leader in organic and natural foods, nutritional and dietary supplements. Today, the company has approximately 6000 employees.
The design of automated solutions for Natural & Organic Food distribution center is the main key that has enabled it to grow and keep service quality for its more than 15,000 retail customers.
Which is the automated design that the Company implemented in its Distribution Center?
The Company set a 230,000sqft distribution center using the latest RF technology, an advanced warehouse management system and the most sophisticated control software.
The center also has an integrated network of HYTROL conveyor equipment, which speed up the flow of orders from assortment stations to loading docks.
“We have different defined objects when we design the distribution center. We wanted to increase the overall productivity and optimize our response time to attend our customers faster and with a better-quality service. This distribution center is the accomplishment of those goals and the HYTROL conveyors system plays an important part in the whole implementation”, said the Logistics’ VP of Natural & Organic Food.
Selecting an integrated system
The distribution center incorporated a range if Hytrol conveyors and a sortation system. These tools were impeccably integrated to achieve the best performance in productivity and reliability
Key features of the system are:
- The EX Logic accumulation system efficiently controls accumulation and release of products from one area to another.
- The Sorters Belt efficiently deviate boxes to assortment stations until orders are complete.
- The implemented conveyors handle an average of 65 boxes per minute. However, they are designed to reach maximum 90 boxes per minute.
- The boxes move through SERVO-GAP induction system. This tool establishes the appropriate space for the boxes to pass through a scanning tunnel and into the ProSort classifier.
Improving productivity of business operations represents a constant commitment for us. Through different evaluations, analysis and virtual simulations we provide certainty to our customers, before deciding on any automated implementation.
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