by Tim Floyd | Apr 16, 2025 | Continuous Improvement, Material Flow
The pick, pack, and ship process is the foundation of a fulfillment operation. . Each phase plays a critical role: picking ensures the correct items are selected, packing safeguards products for transit, and shipping guarantees timely delivery to customers. But it’s...
by Tim Floyd | Apr 1, 2025 | Cart Systems, Lean Solutions, Material Flow
Across industries and applications, material flow is a critical driver of facility productivity. How efficiently components move from one stage of your process to the next directly impacts operational costs, cycle times, and throughput. As more companies prioritize...
by Tim Floyd | Nov 6, 2023 | Material Flow
Packaging serves a multi-faceted role within the manufacturing and logistics industries. Beyond its primary function of protecting parts, the choice of packaging material, design, and process has far-reaching implications for cost, sustainability, and overall...
by Tim Floyd | Mar 22, 2019 | Material Flow
Material handling carts are used to improve material flow through any operation. However, even operations that use carts effectively sometimes struggle to identify good cart applications. They use too many forklifts, move things manually, or have stagnant inventory....
by Tim Floyd | Mar 3, 2019 | Material Flow
You can hear the health, safety, and environment (HSE) team from the next room – flow? What does flow have to do with me? Maybe more than you realize. HSE has a big job to do. The health and safety of operations personnel during normal production operation is...
by Tim Floyd | Dec 1, 2018 | Material Flow
The best way to understand engineered material flow is to consider the opposite. Randomly moving stuff, expedited! is one we encounter often. What is engineered material flow? A correctly designed material flow system is dynamic, interactive, and predictable. Dynamic...
