Volume 1, Issue 1 In Spring of 2003, Advanced Systems, Inc. became involved in a project with Unilever- Bestfoods Corp. for one of their plants located in Chicago. Advanced integrated an automatic truck loading system into its design and competed with 2 other bidders to supply a turn-key system to automatically load semi-trailers with pallet loads of finished goods. The scope of the bid specification for the project included: 1) Relocating five case palletizers from the current location to a warehouse adjacent to the facility’s shipping doors; 2) Extending the existing case conveyors to the relocated palletizers; and 3) Creation of a pallet handling system designed to accumulate and meter pallets to the ATLS truck-loader in each of six loading positions. All bidders

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