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The
Schwan Food Company’s Salina, Kansas
facility was handling their product multiple
times before shipping it to the final destination.
Tippmann Group designed this 105,000 square
foot facility adjacent to Schwan’s existing
plant to act as a buffer between manufacturing
and shipping.
Full
pallet loads of product are diverted from
the palletizing room to the new distribution
center via a conveyor bridge. The bridge had
to be specially designed to handle two full
pallet conveyor lines, inbound and outbound
while maintaining a 100 foot clear span over
an existing road. The pallets come into the
new building at an elevated height on a two-level
conveyor system.
They
are they routed to three vertical lifts to
be lowered to floor level. Fork lift operator
then put the pallets into pallet rack for
storage. When a pallet is needed back across
the street for picking, an operator will place
the pallet on the lower level outbound conveyor.
The conveyor then routes the pallet to a fourth
vertical lift which raises the pallet back
up to the bridge elevation. The pallet is
then sent back across the bridge to the existing
picking freezer. Handling heavy, full pallets
is typically a slow process but this system
is rated for 110 pallets per hour.
