Understanding your product, the size of your facility, and the goals you are trying to achieve with sortation conveyors can not only lead you to the best equipment, but also the best return on your investment. Hytrol has multiple sortation products and can work with you to find the sorter that fits your needs.
Manufacturing lead times are at record highs and still accelerating. Hytrol’s new Quick Ship Program, exclusively available to AEC’s clients, ships in only 3 weeks. Transportation Conveyor and Zero Pressure Accumulation Conveyor available in standard widths, colors, and elevations.
Verizon needed to output 13 million bills and letters monthly at their billing distribution center. Their current process just couldn’t move the totes efficiently from the second-floor to the first floor where the mail totes were being sleeved and strapped.
Material Handling Specialist, Ivar Lonon, created an innovative redesign with a fully automated conveyor system, saving Verizon both money and time, reducing errors, and dramatically improving productivity.
The pharmaceutical industry is essential and the goods they provide are even more crucial. The facilities in which pharmaceuticals are sorted, filled, and shipped out, need to be carefully planned and configured to support these specific needs.
The warehouse and distribution industry is on the rise and will continue to grow as the world navigates the digital age. In this industry, you need quality products with a guiding hand to help guide you through creating effective and efficient systems.
How does an expert decide what configuration is best? Depending on the products being manufactured, a material handling system may be light duty, medium duty, or heavy duty depending on TAKT time or specific application. Because needs in the manufacturing industry vary greatly, it is important to know which conveyors are best for your facility to optimize your business strategy.
Montel’s Mobile Storage Systems are a great choice for multiple applications. By allowing the shelves to move from side-to-side and providing just two aisles for access at a time, storage can increase by 50% over a standard, static system.
Charlie Williamson wins the 2019 Top Sales award for the 11th time.
When asked about the secret to his success – “It’s good to know that somebody thinks I’m doing a great job,” says Williamson, “but nobody has ever given me an order because I won an award. You have to earn that every time.”
After years at both the Robert Bosch Corporation and Boeing, Steve Roper accepted AEC President Darin Boik’s invitation to be a part of the AEC Family.
Roper brings with him decades of experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, and material handling problem solving.
Our paper goods client in Kinston, North Carolina had been trying to take on new customers. So we needed to redesign a larger-scale operation to increase productivity and create an efficient showroom for prospective clients.
Material Handling Specialist, Brad Dowless, redesigned the entire distribution center conveyor system for a 40% increase in production.
In order for companies to ramp up production and meet their annual goals going forward, implementing automation will be a must. As the world emerges from the COVID crisis, automation needs will not only continue to expand — they will explode.
AEC’s Accounting Manager, Jennifer Schumacher, has helped to promote digital growth to the companies day-to-day business operations.
From financial reporting to AR/AP, the AEC office operates as an efficient machine with faster turnaround times for their customers.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our food and beverage distribution client in Eastern North Carolina needed to increase the capacity of their pallet-wrapping operation..
Working with the automated wrapper team, Brad Dowless designed a fourth conveyor line into the process. Pallets could now be loaded into four different lines, speeding up throughput over 33%.
E-commerce companies often ship products in boxes that are much too large for their contents. Automated and fit-to-size packaging helps businesses to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and lessen their environmental impact.
Corob is a world leader in automated tinting, dispensing, and blending solutions for the paint coating industry for both in-plant processes as well as retail point-of-sales equipment.
AEC worked with Corob to develop a solution that would usher in a new, automated future for the paint and coatings industry.
Our home entertainment client, DISH Network was looking for an automated solution to optimize their receiving and sorting process.
To streamline their process, material handling specialist Brian Hester teamed with System Plast to pair our Hytrol conveyor system with their Modsort Divert and Transfer mods and a SICK 6-Axis Barcode Scanner and Sizing Station.
In 1960, Advanced Equipment Company was born. Since that starting point, AEC has been a powerhouse of the material handling industry—and if you ask company president Darin Boik, much of that success comes down to lessons learned in the early days of the business.
12 years of experience as a manufacturing engineer combined with application design and sales is the driving force behind Bobby Moran’s efficient solutions to unique, complex applications.
But the real benefit to AEC clients is his ethics. “All I can say is that integrity and honesty goes a long way. One thing I stand by, I promise my best and always follow through,” says Bobby Moran.
As material handling technology advances, it becomes clearer and clearer that warehouses and DCs must continue to automate in order to remain efficient and financially sustainable. While the challenges and solutions are different for every warehouse and DC, a thoughtful and careful analysis will identify the right path toward increased automation for your organization.
“We’re all on the same page here, much like families are. And we’re unified in our common goal, to help our customers any way we can to reach their goals.
We let them know that they’re not just our customer—they’re a member of our team,” says VP of Operations, Derek Helton.
