date:Jul 17, 2014
ever, until just before the companys 20th anniversary milestone, all of the companys palletizing was done by manpower.
The companys 11 employees on the floor produced 300 bottles a minute, but the three workers that alternated the manual end-of-line palletizing operations stacked cases of the beer at a rate of 12 cases a minute, according to the case study. This discrepancy in palletizing was compounded by fatigue from stacking cases weighing up to 30 pounds each, creating a bottleneck in the p