9to5 Seating Optimizes Facility with Raymond Handling Solutions

CHALLENGE: SIMPLE BUT AGGRESSIVE

9to5 Seating specializes in the design and manufacture of office seating for customers from major companies to schools and hospitals to "mom-and-pop" businesses.

In building a new warehouse and production facility, 9to5 Seating had a simple but aggressive goal: create capacity to quadruple production in a new production and warehouse facility that is LEED Gold certified.
SOLUTION: SMOOTH MATERIAL FLOW

The company joined forces with Raymond Handling Solutions, an authorized Raymond Solutions and Support Center, to design the handling system.

Raymond Handling Solutions worked with the 9to5 Seating team to design a U-shaped material flow. The circulation consists of lift trucks receiving incoming raw materials and components, feeding the VNA racking system, delivering components to the pick module and moving finished good to shipping - all with Raymond lift trucks.
RESULT: MAXIMUM PRODUCTIVITY

The company is achieving its aims to boost efficiency substantially in the new facility. President Dara Mir, estimates that, in total, the handling process - including the lift trucks, conveyors and pick module - has increased productivity by more than 40 percent compared with the previous facility.

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