Strategies_Fall2025

DEPARTMENT UPDATE

Blish-Mize’s automated pallet management systems enhance workplace safety by reducing physical lifting requirements and streamlining material handling processes. “Safety-wise, they’re

Safety and Efficiency Innovations The most recent addition to the warehouse is a state-of-the-art pallet tower and de-stacker system that eliminates manual pallet handling while improving operational efficiency. The system allows equipment operators to drive their pallet jacks directly into a large bin where they can hook up to pallets without leaving their equipment. “The system raises the remaining stack so they can drive out with the pallet,” Clark says. “If they’re riding a double pallet jack, they’ll let it lower back down, and then they can put the second pallet on their forks.” The automation eliminates the previous process where operators had to repeatedly exit their equipment, manually stack and unstack 40-50 pound pallets, then return to their equipment for each pallet retrieved. The system saves approximately 90 seconds per pallet pickup. “Safety-wise, they’re not having to lift 40- to 50-pound pallets all the time, all day long,” Clark says. “They’re able to just pick it up on their equipment. When you’re talking multiple runs throughout the day, it’s going to add up.”

not having to lift 40- to 50-pound

pallets all the time, all day long. They’re able to just pick it up on their equipment.”

—Brady Clark, Blish-Mize

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