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Conveying, handling and end-of-line equipment
News Release from: Rynex
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 July 2005
Glasgow Firm Signs Turnkey Handling Kit
Contract
Materials handling specialist, Rynex, of Glasgow (Scotland) has concluded a strategic agreement with Moving, of Sweden, to provide turnkey systems for the UK.
Materials handling specialist, Rynex, of Glasgow (Scotland) has concluded a strategic agreement with Moving, of Sweden, to provide turnkey systems for the UK within the logistics and food supply sectors Rynex has produced turnkey conveyor systems for both logistics and food manufacturing companies, including firms like Allied Domecq, Premier Brands and United Biscuits
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Based in Astorp (Sweden), Moving is a leading supplier of automated materials handling and storage systems that fit well in to Rynex's systems integration expertise.
Its particular strengths are in warehouse cranes and miniload systems, warehouse management systems, unit load conveyors, particularly for flat pack textiles and hanging garments, wheels and castors, end-of-line equipment and baggage handling.
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Moving has developed its own WMS software, which is used in all its warehouse turnkey installations under the brand name Procode.
Established in 1969, Moving has grown threefold over the last six years through organic growth and acquisition, boosting annual sales to SK307m.
Moving is no stranger to UK projects, where it has completed contracts for Levis, Lakeland, Bulmer and Spicers.
Currently, it reports a buoyant automated warehouse market in Scandinavia.
Unlike some systems integrators, Rynex's strength, explained managing director, Stephen Black McCallion, included the ability to provide integrated warehouse management systems to existing handling hardware or the other way around.
It has also designed and commissioned machines to deliver the performance criteria set out by customers in their pursuit of technological excellence.
One such scheme, for example, was a crate washing system for a Northern Foods group company incorporating washing, transport, stacking, destacking and crate sortation at speeds up to 5,000 crates per hour.
Rynex also designs and makes automatic packaging and processing machine lines for the pharmaceutical, food and drinks industries, claiming to be the premier packaging systems integrator in the country.
A division has been formed to focus solely on puck technology, from stand alone, in-line puck removers to complete puck lines.
Moving chose Rynex because the company can handle many different types and sizes of projects, backed up by a comprehensive after sales service, with offices in France and Spain and experience in project management.
Before the agreement, both companies had been working together for several years and so feel at ease with other's organisational structure, added Rynex.
Automated warehouse projects are always complex to project manage and the risks are not lessened by the choice of providers available.
Some favour the builder taking over the turnkey project management but, in Rynex's opinion, they often lack the skills and knowledge to integrate a complex system where the handling kit should take precedence, so much so that there is almost universal agreement that automated warehouses should be built from the inside out.
The building shell, after all, is there mainly to keep the rain off.
Another view favours appointing a leading supplier of automated materials handling equipment, but they are tied to providing their own equipment and buyers might not get the best solution to their needs, said Rynex.
There is also the risk that suppliers will provide something to fit their equipment's needs rather than the client's business needs.
A third option is to appoint an experienced systems integrator, now generally considered the safest choice, because it is their responsibility to make sure everything works smoothly from the start, especially the software.
That approach leaves no leeway for buck passing when project commissioning disappoints.
If their experience is broad enough, they can also help their clients to consider various levels of automation that had not occurred to them and so propose several options, said Rynex.
Rynex will be exhibiting at the PPMA exhibition, at Birmigham's NEC (UK) from September 26-29.
The Rynex stand will be 150 in hall 12 and the company will also be exhibiting at Europack, in Lyon (France) from October 4-7.
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