Session on Semi-Automated Forklift Technology Added to IARW-WFLO Convention
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Across the cold chain industry, innovators are developing intriguing new ways of approaching common industry challenges like human capital, lowering costs, and saving time. These innovators are often IARW warehouse members who have made an impact on the industry through groundbreaking ideas set into motion in their own operations. Let these change-makers inspire you as you learn how they are paving the way into the future of the cold chain. The “Cool Innovators” sessions at the IARW-WFLO Convention feature unique approaches that you can evaluate for your own facility.
The new InterChange cold storage facility in Mount Crawford, Virginia, is the first cold storage facility in the world to use Jungheinrich semi-automated forklifts. The proprietary Warehouse Navigation uses RFID chips embedded in the concrete to track the lift truck’s location, both vertically and horizontally, to within millimeters. This, by itself, can be used to prevent the truck from doing unwanted tasks even if an operator tries to override the system.
The technology integrates with a customer’s Warehouse Management System (WMS). Because InterChange’s WMS knows where the product is, and now can track where the lift truck is, it can be directed to the exact next pick location with one push of a toggle. The speed and accuracy of the system, eliminating the need to scan barcodes at each location, has increased productivity over a manual system.
Join Chris Thompson, Vice President of Business Development, and Keith VanBenschoten, Chief Operating Officer, as they describe InterChange’s adoption of this semi-automated forklift technology and answer your questions about the decision to adopt this system in their new facility.
