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outside the main factory building on a concrete slab. The rack is eight levels high, includes 384 cells, is serviced by two Korber Stacker Cranes and can store approximately 10,000,000-square-feet of product, which includes both primary and secondary WIP. The total power requirements for the system with two stacker cranes is 180 amps. “For comparison purposes, a traditional WIP system for a fac- tory of this size would occupy a space of 40,000-square- feet yet would only be able to accommodate 5,000,000 square-feet of product and would require over 500 amps of power,” McLaughlin says. WSA also provided a fully automatic Tooling Delivery System that delivers tooling carts including ink, printing plates and cutting dies to and from the mezzanine to each converting line and waste carts from the converting ma- chines to the baler room. This will be integrated with a new SERRA Fully Automatic Die and Printing Plate Rack system in July. The material transport and vertical WIP offers many benefits, Önder says. “We are not touching the box. In terms of quality and service there is no bottleneck for run- nability so you can run the corrugator 24 hours and store sheets and you’re not touching the sheets so the perfor- mance and the quality will be much better.” Aragüés says, “We are able to separate the customer’s fluctuations on the converting machines from the corruga- tor because we have such a big buffer between the cor-
opposed to traditional floor conveyor was considered from the very beginning as this solution has been well proven in recent years in Europe, according to Jim McLaughlin, President of WSA-USA LLC. It offers significant benefits in optimizing storage capacity, reducing building size and cost, minimizing energy consumption, lessening product
handling, and maximizing plant efficiencies in how product is scheduled and run on the corrugator. The vertical WIP warehouse at Saica Pack Hamilton has a footprint of 11,000-square-feet and is positioned WSA and Warak’s Vertical WIP Storage System is the first of its kind in North America.
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