Danone 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.

Total Produce is one of Europe's largest importers of fruit and vegetables. All fruit sold by price per kilo, such as watermelons, is weighed on entry. And until recently they needed four employees to do that work...

Heineken Event Services supplies events with equipment and beer. Return shipments of 1,000 liter beer tanks are weighed to determine the amount of beer left in the tanks, since customers are only invoiced for the amount of beer actually consumed. Heineken uses iForks on their forklifts to weigh the beer tanks.

DB Schenker measures weight and dimensions of all individual items in containers destined for Brazil. Read more about how they integrated iForks.

One of our customers recently started weighing efficiently without any impact on their cross dock operation. Here's how to weigh inbound palletized goods in order to increase revenues. 

Lugato produces chemical products for construction, such as grout, glue, kit and plaster. Customers are DIY stores and builder’s merchants throughout Europe. The order picking at Lugato is done in two shifts of five workers each. Per shift they pick an average 150 orders. Every worker moves about 16.000 kg of goods per shift.