Large Midwest manufacturer in the electrical power industry launches new products and is challenged with storage capacity required to locate work in progress next to the new product line.
Compact Storage is called in to solve capacity and accessibility challenges for new product launch. Hurdles that had to be overcome are as follows:
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- With more products being introduced a need for additional storage & manufacturing capacity was required without adding brick & mortar.
- More SKU’s being introduced demanded individual accessibility to each SKU.
- Poor productivity, W.I.P. area was going to have to be located a significant distance from the new production line creating long travel times, reduced productivity and increased labour costs associated with material handling.
- Costly add-on building construction projects had been considered as a solution
- Alternate storage solutions had been evaluated
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- Push back, to limited for SKU accessibility
- Select wide aisle, not enough capacity
- Narrow Aisle, not enough capacity for growth
- ASR System, not enough capacity and very costly
- Desire to have a flexible solution for change and growth capacity.
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Compact Storage Solutions develops a mobile storage solution to address operational, capacity through put and growth projections.
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- Compacts mobile storage solutions increased capacity by 75%
- Compacts mobiles storage solution offered a total solutions
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- 115 total pallets
- 1610 pallet positions
- 3,080,000 lbs on mobile storage
- Storage area 46' x 80'
- Racks are 30' tall upright
- Compact's solution exceeded the capacity requirement and has offered years of growth.
- Compact's solutions offered full accessibility to each SKU.
Production Manager "The Compact Mobile Storage Solution has had a significant impact on our capacity; we met our needs and future growth. Compact's solution allowed us to store our work in progress at point of use, minized our material handling travel. |
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