该设备具有连接到云的控制器，可提供有关装载码头作业的可视化。

By MMH Staff · December 2, 2020

新的仓库和配送中心正在寻求提高装卸码头效率的方法。公司现在正在考虑其装卸码头设备所提供的技术。

对于大型食品配送中心来说尤其如此，因为它设计了新的设施，其中包括90个码头位置。食品零售商需要耐用且可靠的装卸平台校平器和车辆约束装置，但它还需要能够将其操作提升到下一个水平的设备-通过连接到Cloud并深入了解装卸平台的活动。

除了连接性之外，食品零售商还必须确定其要监视的数据以及获取该数据所需的传感器。从安全的角度来看，它想知道每个码头上被约束的拖车百分比，并在约束被置于旁路模式时得到通知。

在监视效率的同时，食品零售商希望分析发生在拖车内外的叉车活动，并确定在使用约束装置之前或释放约束装置之后，拖车在码头上坐了多少时间。该分析使零售商能够进行修改并确保滞期费较低。

最后，食品零售商寻求码头设备，以报告开门的时间，特别是在没有拖车的时候。通过减少不必要的开门时间，零售商可以确保能源成本保持较低水平，提高安全性和安全性，并提高仓库的清洁度。

最终，食品零售商选择了码头设备，该设备包括一整套传感器和控制器（可以连接到云）以及可以提供其搜索指标的软件。

在新配送中心全面运行的两个月内，这家食品零售商发现并纠正了几个码头过度使用旁路模式的情况，监控了每个码头的平均装载时间，并根据需要进行了调整。它了解到，它的门永远不会不必要地超过1％的时间打开，并且它将其软件数据用作任何关于滞留时间和滞期费方面差异的资源。

在意识到装卸站技术的好处之后，食品零售商现在正在考虑在其其他设施的装卸站增加连接性。这些装卸平台中的每个都可以在在线装卸平台管理软件中的同一公司帐户下设置为不同的位置。

Food retailer chooses highly connected dock equipment

Featuring controllers that connect to the Cloud, the equipment offers insights into loading dock activity.

New warehouses and DCs are seeking methods to improve their loading docks’ efficiency. Companies are now taking into consideration the technology offered with their loading dock equipment.

This was especially true for a large food DC as it designed its new facility, which would include 90 dock positions. While the food retailer needed loading dock levelers and vehicle restraints that were durable and reliable, it also wanted equipment that would take its operations to the next level—by connecting to the Cloud and giving it insights into its loading dock activity.

In addition to connectivity, the food retailer had to determine which data it wanted to monitor, as well as the sensors it would need to obtain that data. From a safety standpoint, it wanted to know which percentage of trailers were being restrained at each dock and be notified if a restraint was put into bypass mode.

While monitoring efficiency, the food retailer wanted to analyze forklift activity occurring in and out of the trailer and determine how much time trailers were sitting at docks before a restraint was engaged or after it was released. This analysis enables the retailer to implement modifications and ensure demurrage fees are low.

Lastly, the food retailer sought dock equipment that could report on the time doors were open, especially when a trailer wasn’t present. By reducing this unnecessary door open time, the retailer could ensure energy costs remain low, security and safety are improved, and warehouse cleanliness increases.

Ultimately, the food retailer chose dock equipment that included a package of sensors and controllers that can connect to the Cloud and software that could provide the metrics it was searching for.

Within two months of full operation in the new DC, the food retailer discovered—and then corrected—the overuse of a bypass mode at a few docks, monitored the average load time at each dock and made adjustments as needed. It learned that its doors were never unnecessarily open for more than 1% of the time, and it used its software data as a resource for any discrepancies, with regard to detention time and demurrage fees.

After realizing the benefits of technology at the loading docks, the food retailer is now considering the addition of connectivity at loading docks in its other facilities. Each of these loading docks can be set up as different locations under the same corporate account in the online dock management software.