How to Speed up turn-around time at your unloading dock?
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In order to speed up the process, equipment companies have introduced automatic unloading systems, which means that a 26-pallet trailer can be unloaded within five minutes of its arrival.
Vehicle when arrived at the offloading bay, as a first step, seals need to be checked against the delivery paperwork.
Once the vehicle has backed onto the appropriate bay, the in-handling team should have appropriate labour and equipment to handle, to efficiently manage the offloading process.
Unloading times will vary depending on the equipment used and whether the load needs to be staged prior to put-away.
Boom Conveyor
Combine these with conveyors or automated guided vehicles (AGV), the requirement for labour within the receiving operation reduces significantly.
Unloading loose loaded containers has always been a time-consuming operation, very unproductive as the warehousing staff within the container wait for full pallets to be unloaded whilst the forklift driver is waiting for the pallet to be built, also more sortation needs to take place on the unloading dock. As a result it is inefficient and can be hazardous to staff, who are continually bending and stretching within the container.
Boom Conveyor on the other hand, as shown in the image, being adjustable in height and able to provide continuous, uninterrupted flow, unloads carton from a container where sortation can take place outside the container, therefore less bending and twisting of operator is involved.
In order to run this operation smoothly, the supplier needs to be instructed to load the same items together in the container.
With the increase in automation, there is greater emphasis on uniform cartons as robots are now utilized for building pallets both on intake and for dispatch.
Best way to speed up the loading task in warehouse companies.
Aaj Enterprises
