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Automation in the beverage industry
Do you operate within the drinks sector? Do you want to improve safety, increase productivity, and cut down your costs? Automating your materials handling processes could be the solution for you.
Automated warehouse solutions
Automated warehouse logistic solutions are the way that businesses can capture tangible efficiency gains, where the flow of goods through your warehouse keeps flowing.
Human error is one of the most common causes of inventory and fulfilment issues. Warehouse automation helps you to rectify this.
Toyota Material Handling can help you take the automation journey step-by-step, optimising your entire workflow.
For more information on whether automation could work for you, we have a range of whitepapers available for you to download for free today.
Increase productivity
Automating your materials handling processes can hugely increase your productivity by eliminating waste and standardising processes.
Here’s how:
- Automation takes away the human element of materials handling, this means no considerations need to be made for sickness, holidays, or absences and trucks can work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year if required.
- Truck downtime is generally caused by damage or accidents that have come about by human error, utilising automated trucks takes away these risks.
- Automation takes over the repetitive tasks from team members, allowing them to focus on other more important tasks.
- Automation can help you to standardise your processes, allowing you to accurately forecast the amount of pallet moves within your operation.
Decrease costs
Although it may seem that initially automating your materials handling operation can be an expensive cost, overtime you will find that it is saving you a lot more.
Here’s how:
- One of the largest costs for any business is the cost of staff, automation takes away the need for forklift operators and therefore takes away the considerable cost of labour.
- Automation takes away the risk of human error, decreasing the likelihood of accidents and damage to the truck, saving on damage costs.
Improving safety with automation
According to the Health and Safety Executive, a worker in the distribution sector suffers a serious injury as a result of an incident involving a lift truck every single day. Introducing automation into your operation is a very effective way of improving safety across the warehouse. Here’s how:
- The biggest cause of accidents is operator error, automation takes this out of the equation. Reducing the risk of accidents by a significant amount. This is also particularly important when dealing with fragile loads such as glass in industries such as drinks.
- All our Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) have safety systems on board that ensure the vehicle slows down and stops for any obstacles in its path, as well as an onboard monitoring system that constantly carries out safety checks.
- As there is no human element, the risk of infection within the warehouse is very low. This is particularly important when handling food and beverage products.
Combat labour shortages
Recent studies show that over the past 18 months there has been a large decline in the amount of qualified lift truck operators available for work in the UK. The shortage of labour has caused major issues for all warehouse businesses, but with supply on the up particularly in the drinks sector this is becoming a particular problem.
Introducing automation into your operation is a way of tackling these issues, as it doesn’t require an operator. For additional advice on combating labour shortages and managing your workforce successfully, download our playbook below.
Our Range of Automated Guided Vehicles
Automated warehouse trucks
- Automates repetitive pallet handling
- Allows for pallet transport, block stacking, pallet handling and high-level storage
- Manual operation possible
Automated tow trains
- Fork-free automated pallet and item handling
- Perfect for just-in-time delivery and milkruns
- Manual operation possible
Semi-automated shuttles
- High-density, deep storage solution with 80% space utilisation
- Increased throughput
- Ideal for coldstore environment operations
Need Help With Automation?
Need help starting your automation journey?
With Logistics Solutions Integration from Toyota we can design and deliver turn-key automation projects, tailored to the needs of your business. First we develop an umbrella vision and determine the most efficient product design for each operation.
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At our dedicated warehouse automated handling technology demonstration centre in Leicester, you will be able to see our range of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and semi-automated Radioshuttle in action. Whether it’s in person or online, our team is here to discuss your warehouse automation requirements. To contact or visit us, please fill out the form.