To meet increasing customer demand a top 3PL (Third Party Logistics) refrigerated-service company needed to transfer processed chicken, through a blast freezer, 24-hours a day.
The product material flow system needed to input over 140 pallets in a two-hour period, as well as move the pallets from zone to zone within 15 minutes, to ensure a proper freeze cycle.
The customer needed to increase storage capacity, but was restricted to the cubic space allotted to the operation.
Employee turnover and related training costs were increasing due to the difficult environmental conditions in the freezer and the customer wanted to keep labor requirements low.
Full control over temperature, time, product and lot integrity must be maintained while moving from zone to zone.
