Material Handling System Facilitates Lean Assembly
Alfmeier uses Creform material handling systems from Textube to distribute inventory to assembly workcells.
A wall of flow racks, overrun with inventory, towered above the assembly line. Obstructing views and blocking light, the racks held as much material as could be crammed into them. “I knew there was a better way,” recalls Dean Davidson, the Greenville, SC-based vice president of operations for Alfmeier Corp.