hyster furniture flipper reduces unload time by 50 percent
A national furniture company located in the Midwest receives between 30-35 trailers of product a day. The trailers are filled with large, heavy furniture to be unloaded and redistributed. Employee turnover is high at the unloading dock, as is product and facility damage.
The customer noted it takes between 5-7 employees to move and flip furniture. This role is time-consuming and labor-intensive, given the frequency of trailers delivered per day.
They needed to find an efficient way to simplify the process and move furniture faster without all of the damage and to do it with their existing team.
INITIAL CHALLENGE
The customer needed a better way to handle the time-consuming and labor-intensive processes of moving furniture. Receiving 30-35 deliveries per day required 5-7 employees to transport heavy furniture. Employee turnover was high at the unloading dock, so was product damage.
OUR SOLUTION
To simplify furniture transportation and ease the process, Riekes recommended a furniture flipper configuration. The configuration consisted of a tow truck (T7ZAC) chassis with a flipper attachment. This truck is capable of carrying loads up to 1,500 lbs, it has a backward tilt of 15 degrees and a forward tilt of 2 degrees. No competitors in the market have an option to match it.
THE RESULTS
The customer cut unloading times by 50% and decreased labor at the dock by 40%. This change allowed for easy and productive transport which helped minimize product and facility damage. Additionally, they noted an estimated labor savings of $74,400 per truck and a boost in productivity thanks to the furniture flipper configuration.