Intralox Case Study: Advanced Handling Systems, Inc. | Intralox Background Advanced Handling Systems, Inc. (AHS), a material-handling-systems integrator based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has built successful, long-lasting partnerships with several companies. One of its most prominent retail-clothing customers was preparing to open a new 330,000 sq. ft. distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona, to handle its rapidly expanding web-based business. Challenge At its distribution centers, the retailer routinely handled clothing packed in polyethylene bags. Because poly bags lack flat bottoms, they could not be effectively conveyed along the conventional rollers that the retailer was utilizing. Difficulties arose at merges as the bags slipped underneath the fixed deflector, jamming the system. To minimiz

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