Liquor distributor meets sudden market
demands with 11-day, order-to-installation conveyor system
Due to heavy, sudden
demand for micro-brewed beer, the company needed a new system in under
two weeks....and got it
Customer
Barrett-Hamilton Company & Glazer’s Wholesale
Distribution.
SIC
Code: 5181, 5182
Application
Beer,
wine and liquor distribution center
The
situation
Barrett-Hamilton,
a Little Rock-based distributor of distilled spirits,
wines, and popular beers, wanted to capitalize on the
burgeoning consumer demand for microbrewed beers. It
needed a conveyor system up and running—and it
needed it fast.
The impact
The company’s distribution facility did
not have the conveyor capacity needed to handle such a
major expansion to its existing product line.
Solution implemented
Working with Cisco-Eagle,
Barrett-Hamilton developed a straightforward and highly
efficient response to the challenge. The new system
incorporates minimum-pressure power conveyors and curves,
an incline, and a rugged skatewheel diverter that
streamlines the flow of orders to the delivery docks. All
of the equipment is seamlessly integrated to facilitate
order flow.
One particular feature of the project merits
special attention: the tight time frame. Complete
installation---from initial order to final implementation
and testing---took only 11 days. Barrett-Hamilton was
able to achieve this kind of turnaround by ordering the
equipment and components from Hytrol’s FasTrak
Distribution Center. The FasTrak Center can provide
24-hour shipping on more than 50 conveyor models in over
2,400 sizes.
The new conveyor system moves full-case
quantities of micro beers from a ground-level storage
area to a quality control station on the mezzanine. All
orders need to pass through this station prior to loading
on the delivery trucks.
For the full-case pick line, Cisco-Eagle
installed 100 feet of minimum-pressure horizontal power
conveyor (190-ACC) with a feeder belt at the end. An
incline conveyor (190-RB) carries the orders up to the
mezzanine level. There a live roller curve conveyor
(190-LRC) moves them onto a reversible belt conveyor,
which is the quality control station. Two other pick
lines also merge at the quality control station.
After passing a thorough inspection, all of the
orders move through an accumulation conveyor, down a
decline conveyor and onto high density skatewheel curves en route to the shipping area. At this point,
Barrett-Hamilton had been having a problem with cases
jamming and not diverting properly. To address this
situation and to accommodate the volume added by the
micro brew line, Cisco-Eagle added a "Y" switch
divert with high-density skatewheels and manual plow.
This Hytrol unit provides a simple method of smoothly
converging or diverting product from one line to another
without jamming or back up.
The
Results
Barrett-Hamilton now provides a wide range
of micro brews to its retail customers, thereby
capitalizing on an important new business opportunity.
And a basic conveyor system---fully installed in less
than two weeks---helped make it possible.
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