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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.
