Case studies

Dannon (B) – Producer of dairy products

Dannon sometimes needed to stop production lines because containers with fruit preparations emptied unexpectedly. Nowadays, after each batch produced, the fruit containers are weighed on the hand pallet trucks that return them to the warehouse. This allows a higher efficiency in production planning and stock control. Dannon

Huijbregts Groep (NL) – Powder logistics for the food industry

Huijbregts Groep supplies premixes of raw materials for the food industry, according to client owned recipes. For quality control on behalf of the client, all ingredients are weighed on the STILL electric pallet trucks that transport them between warehouse and mixer units.  Huijbregts Group

United Biscuits (NL) - Producer of biscuits

A United Biscuits employee was rewarded with 9000 Euro for his idea to weigh rest material and production waste directly on the forklift truck. united_biscuits-uk.pdf

Herberts (D) - Producer of automobile paint

At Herberts, expensive circulation systems became obsolete when they changed to explosion proof hand pallet truck scales to mix the paint, moving the scale from one component to the other. Thus they work faster, are more flexible in their production planning, and they have lowered their maintenance and investment costs. Herberts

KLM Cargo (NL) – Air freight

When KLM Cargo started to use legal-for-trade scales on their Hyster forklift trucks to verify the weight of all air freight pallets presented by their clients, invoiced turn-over went up enough to have complete return of investment on the forklift scales within weeks. klm.pdf

Tyco (NL) - Producer of micro components

From its distribution center for northwestern Europe Tyco ships an average 250 pallets per day, and every one of them needs to be weighed. By doing that on the hand pallet trucks that move the pallets anyway, Tyco saves 1375 man hours per year. Tyco

FLOS creative component solutions (NL) – Producer of components and subsystems

At FLOS orders consist of huge numbers of a single product. Since FLOS supplies just-in-time, it is of major importance that deliveries are correct. Which is why the components in incoming and outgoing shipments are counted on two hand pallet truck scales, saving considerable time and avoiding counting errors? FLOS

Tibbett & Britten (RO) - 3PL Logistic service provider

Tibbett & Britten supplies 19 Metro wholesale stores with food products, from its DC in Bucharest. The proper amount of fruit and vegetables is taken from full pallets on the Jungheinrich electric pallet trucks with scale to compile the orders. The mobile weighing systems allow a higher handling speed in order picking and therefore create a higher order capacity using the same amount of personnel and trucks. Tibbet & Britten

Scheren Logistik (D) - 3PL Logistic service provider

In order to minimize errors during order picking, 3PL provider Scheren equipped their STILL order-picking trucks with integrated scales. The warehouse management system interrogates the scale for the net weight increase after each order line picked, and compares this actual net weight with the theoretical weight of the articles in the order line. Only if the weights correspond, does the order picker receive the next order line on his truck terminal. Scheren

Royal Mail (UK) – Postal service

At the distribution centers of the British postal service mail bags are transported in roll containers that are stacked for temporary storage. Safe procedures say that the roll containers cannot be loaded with more than 3,300 lbs. For weighing the thousands of containers, Royal Mail equipped its 500 Hyster forklift trucks with a hydraulic load indication system. Royal Mail

PaKo (D) - 3PL Logistic service provider

Logistic service provider PaKo does the order picking and distribution for 171 Mäc-Geiz shops in Germany. The problem was that there were too many complaints from the shops about goods not delivered. PaKo was looking for a simple and profitable way to check the outgoing shipments. The solution: checking the weight during order picking, on the Jungheinrich order picking trucks. PAKO

DHL (P) - Express logistics

DHL Poland was trying to solve a problem in their internal logistics: there was no efficient solution for weighing pallet shipments. Since these “special shipments” could not be accurately invoiced, DHL was missing out on turn over. In the end DHL found the solution: installing scales on the Toyota forklift trucks that move the pallets, in combination with wireless data transfer to their computer system. DHL

Lugato (D) - Producer of construction chemicals

Lugato works with scales integrated in their Jungheinrich order picking trucks. On its display, the scale counts the number of articles picked. In this way the number of picking errors was minimized and client satisfaction was raised. Lugato

Lever Fabergé (NL) - Producer of cleaning liquids

Once every three months an inventory is made of the perfumes warehouse. Thanks to the weighing forks on the Linde forklift truck, the IBC containers only need to be lifted from the racking to know how much perfume they contain. When weighing a warehouse full of IBC’s, this saves them a full day’s work! Lever-Fabergé

BRB Benelux Research Business (NL) - Producer of lubricants and silicones

BRB saves time and space by using twelve pallet truck scales for filling IBC containers, mixing lubricants and filling commercial packaging. And those pallet truck scales also come in handy when doing inventories in the warehouse. BRB

ACP Automotive Components (D) - Producer of components for the automotive industry

ACP supplies 500 to 1,000 boxes of components per day to several well known freight truck manufacturers. In order to prevent incomplete deliveries, all components are counted by scales integrated in the STILL stacker trucks that lift and move the boxes. Thanks to the mobile counting scales the number of complaints from customers has decreased drastically. ACP

LETO (NL) – Processing of chemical waste

LETO Ecoservice processes hazardous waste materials. Different waste flows are delivered to the site in Almelo in different ways, but all flows need to be weighed and registered: for invoicing, planning and for the hazardous waste registration required by law. Therefore every freight truck has an electric pallet truck with legal-for-trade scale on board and every forklift truck at the Almelo site is equipped with a legal-for-trade scale. All weight data on waste flows is transferred to the SITA computer system. LETO

Nijsen Granico Food Recycling (NL) - Processing food materials into cattle-fodder

Nijsen Granico collects rest materials at food companies, for processing into cattle-fodder. Every Nijsen freight truck carries a hand pallet truck scale. The driver weighs the collected containers in the presence of the client; the client signs for the weight collected and immediately knows what will be invoiced. A question of trust. Nijsen Granico

Van Roessel Drukwerkers (NL) – Print office

Van Roessel Drukwerkers does specialized print jobs for the multimedia market. It sometimes happened that the presses had to be stopped, because paper had run out. Nowadays incomplete deliveries are already signaled while offloading the freight truck, by a scale on the Linde forklift truck. Van Roessel