FEBRUARY 2019
will come on, things will be moving smoother.” He noted that a lot of pallet yards are constrained by space, and that they end up manually stacking pallets too high.
For his part, Eroza noted that smaller companies can start automation incrementally, once their material flows are diagrammed and optimized. “We all started with nothing, doing everything by hand,” he said. He stressed that it is possible to grow into automation incrementally with lower cost investments such as conveyors and stackers.