Food and beverage warehouse managers should seek expert guidance from a qualified design professional whenever the racking, foundation or warehouse infrastructure must accommodate unusual stress, loading, function or other non-standard factors.

Many of today’s automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) offer better visualization and the ability to handle variability, variety and high volume at higher speeds.

Graycor broke ground on the Shafter, Calif., distribution center in October 2018.

On Oct. 18, 2017, a fire burned two of Mount Adams Fruit’s pear packing lines, packed fruit storage and shipping facility, as well as its business offices, in Bingen, Wash.

When a natural disaster struck one of the three warehouses, the company decided to consolidate inventory into one automated distribution center.

The new operation primarily supports a customer whose products are housed in both the automated and conventional storage areas for both full-pallet and case-pick load preparation.

The growing retail industry across the globe is giving rise to the installation of warehouses and management in multiple regions.

Amboy Group’s 110,000-square-foot facility is USDA, FDA and SQF 2000 Level 2-certified, and includes a fully automated temperature-controlled space that uses advanced, computer-controlled automated storage and retrieval systems and EMS storage technologies.

These upgrades will allow Festo to increase storage by 20% and pick rates by 30% to approximately 520 packages per hour.