In this business case, one of RAVAS' logistic customers explored the possibilities to obtain the exact weight of each pallet in its cross docking operation, with the least possible impact on its loading and offloading procedures. 

Smurfit Kappa Van Mierlo in Belgium, specializes in the development and production of offset printed, cardboard packaging. Cardboard waste occurs in different stages of the production process: when setting up the machines, during folding and gluing, or at quality control. Even materials that do not reach their quality standards are separated and removed.

Huijbregts 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.

In order to minimize errors during order picking, 3PL provider Scheren has equipped his Jungheinrich 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. Only if the weight corresponds, the order picker receives the next order line on his truck terminal.

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

At a stone’s throw of the Port of Antwerp, 3M produces semi-finished product and raw materials for a multitude of specialised products, such as foils for the aerospace industry or surgical tape for medical applications. Since these substances often represent a high value, deliveries are carefully checked by weight. This is done by means of RAVAS scales on stackers and hand pallet trucks.