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CTU Code Boosts Supply Chain Safety

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The seven industry bodies dedicated to container safety, collaborating as the Cargo Integrity Group, highlight an independent study carried out by researchers at Italian University Politecnico di Torino into shipper and forwarder application of the CTU Code.

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Case Study: CKF Systems Robots Pick Fragile Snack Product at High Speed

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CKF Systems utilises ABB high speed robots to help customer perfectly pick and pack snack product. The system is helping them to produce, pack and distribute a steady supply of their product to the UK’s supermarkets. When a stack of four has been collected, the robots deposit them on to separate conveyors that run to the packing line.

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Case Study: “A Good Idea That Just Keeps On Getting Better”

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They offload incoming logs, 7m long, four to a pack, which each weigh around 800Kg. The post Case Study: “A Good Idea That Just Keeps On Getting Better” appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. www.combilift.com. www.garnalex.com.

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Case Study: The Building of NHS Nightingale

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Fully lit and designed to house medical consumables in a dry and safe environment, it also allowed operatives to build items such as flat-packed beds on-site, which could then be delivered along ExCeL’s central thoroughfare. The post Case Study: The Building of NHS Nightingale appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Case Study: Tooling Up with Storage and Picking System

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km per order and trolleys would face queueing at packing benches, forming bottlenecks and thereby slowing down despatch. The whole process represents a considerable saving on packing by picking into the automatically created shipping cartons and this has enabled Toolstream to reduce more than thirty pack benches down to only two.

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Case Study: When You Want to Go Up, Not Out

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We can only ‘go up not out’ with our storage so packing as much stock into any given area is crucial. The post Case Study: When You Want to Go Up, Not Out appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. Being able to configure aisles widths according to the depth of the Combilifts and going up to racking heights of 7.5

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LogiMAT ’24 Has Your Back

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To cite just one example, a study published in late 2023 on the introduction of wearable exoskeletons found that they could reduce muscle strain in workers with the most strenuous jobs by up to 30 percent. The post LogiMAT ’24 Has Your Back appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.