A well-known discount furniture manufacturer and retailer with several locations across the eastern U.S. was building a new warehouse and decided to overhaul its warehouse cart system. They discovered K-Tec through an Internet search, and the two companies quickly embarked on a project to make the furniture manufacturer’s order picker carts easier to use; with [...]
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A large manufacturer of heavy-duty transmissions placed its components for machining on industrial carts staged line side opposite the machining centers. This allowed the operators to easily retrieve their next batch of parts and manually push them into their work stations.
However, the carts were loaded and empty dunnage retrieved by fork trucks. This created an [...]
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One of the largest mattress manufacturers and retailers in the world was seeking a better solution for moving its mattresses to and from the delivery dock. The company’s present method used very large picker carts and tugs to move the mattresses in a vertical position from the manufacturing area to an order picker for high [...]
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A fire protection cylinder manufacturer has a variety of cylinder sizes and weights. During manufacturing, these cylinders must be moved from station to station to have various parts installed. The large cylinders can weigh up to 2000 lbs. In the past, they lifted the cylinders using a jib boom or a fork truck to bring [...]
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A manufacturer of parts for the heating and cooling industry has a very small heat exchanger that weighs about 11 lbs. The heat exchanger looks like a radiator and can be damaged easily during manufacturing. The company wanted to be able to transport these heat exchange units from sub assembly to the final assembly [...]
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