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Sep05
Efficient
When all you need is one pass to get an amazingly clean floor, jobs get done faster and you reduce your cost to clean.
• Tightest aisle turn in its class enables incredible maneuverability
• Large, 70-gallon tanks maximize scrub time and tip out for fast, easy cleaning afterward
• High power scrub deck is driven by dual 1.5hp motors
• Optional TrackClean centralized fleet management system helps you monitor and improve operational productivity
Rugged
The SC6500 packs an array of features to extend its service life and minimize maintenance and downtime.
• Low-maintenance AC brushless propulsion drive delivers precise acceleration
• Tubular, steel construction stands up to the toughest applications
• Optional industrial bumper and frame-mounted rollers protect the front and scrub deck from impact damage
Versatile
Get a better clean no matter who is behind the wheel thanks to the versatile technology and design of the SC6500.
• Available EcoFlex™ System allows you to preset, adjust and use only the amount of chemical required for each application
• Offset scrub deck cleans hard-to-reach edges more effectively
• Clear-View™ design and adjustable tilt steering column provide an ergonomic ride for virtually any operator
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Sep05
MaxAccess™
– Minimizes downtime and maximizes efficiency, reliability and longevity through quick and easy access to all engine and hydraulic components.
Easy To Operate
– One-Touch™ controls and a single foot pedal controls direction plus activates the brooms and dust control system and offers the operator the easiest machine to use in the industry.
Clear-View™
– Offset hopper allows the operator to view the side broom and the area in front of the sweeper without having to lean outside the frame of the machine making it safer and more comfortable to use.
Operator Safety
– Hopper safety arm is controlled from the operator’s compartment. Operator is safe from moving parts through the interlocking engine cover. Impact-adsorbing roto-molded body structure and 5 mph bumper provides the ultimate in operator safety.
PERFORMANCE & FEATURES
- True industrial designed Kubota® engine with enclosed gear driven valve train for reliable cost-effective performance
- One-Touch™ lever activates and controls complete sweeping and dust control systems
- DustClear™ 5-Stage Dust Control System minimizes fugitive dust
- Sweep system only activates when machine is in motion, for increased safety and longer broom life
- Wide 50 inch main broom plus the dual side brooms create a superior 77 inch dust controlled sweep path
- Comfort ride 21 inch pneumatic tires offer the operator a smoother ride with less jarring on rough surfaces
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Sep05
HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY WITH A LOWER COST TO CLEAN
Unparalleled durability and ease of use.
High Productivity in a compact package
• Up to 30% greater runtime/productivity versus nearest competitor
Rugged industrial design for maximum life
• Fully protected scrub deck, tubular frame, and extended life cylindrical deck components
SmartKey™ with impact detection
• Provides unique levels of user access to produce consistent results with greater operator accountability, and lower total cost of cleaning
SmartFlow™ and intermittent solution off
• Reduces water and chemical usage by up to 50% while producing safer cleaning results
Offset deck
• For edge cleaning with no added complexity or cost
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Aug20
00:28 Speaker 1: This is a dual, full layer robotic palletizer in which it takes two product lines, moves ’em both, then creates full layers on each product, and then the robot will actually take full layers and drop ’em off onto the pallets.
00:46 Speaker 2: The customer came to us. The issue is needing to palletize in a small area with multiple products. So this solution provides the ability to palletize two different products and two different lines in a very small footprint.
01:01 Speaker 1: Cases come into the system on an existing conveyor system. We immediately gap them with a meter-spacer conveyor. And once the cases are gapped, we use an interlock selective turner to orient the cases, either narrow-side leading or wide-side leading. At that point we form rows, we push individual rows onto a intermediate layer table. Once we form an entire layer, we push the entire layer onto a full layer end of arm tool. The end of arm tool is a roller bed that retracts out to strip the layer onto the pallet. We build full layers on CDLR conveyor and discharged onto a shuttle car, which takes it to an existing stretch wrapper. The overall system output of this one is 45 cases per minute.
01:40 Speaker 1: One of the key technologies in this is the very complicated control system on this one here, this system uses a lot of photo eyes to monitor the position of all the boxes and the placement of the boxes as they move through the dual layer palletizer. The controls will actually help to create the full layer and then let the robot know that it’s ready to pick up a layer to move it onto the pallet.
02:01 Speaker 2: Because we’ve integrated all this stuff into a single GuardLogix platform, the customer needs one software package to maintain this system from a controls perspective, and because it’s on Ethernet, they can access the controller within their plant network, they can see the status of the devices because they’re on Ethernet also. So they have a high-level of visibility into the system.
02:22 Speaker 1: The key technologies in this project were the FANUC M-410 450-kg robot. We needed to go to the 450-kg robot due to the layer weights and the tool size. The end of arm tool is the most important part of this project. It is a full layer design that accommodates either narrow-side layers or wide-side layers due to spacing requirements, gathering requirements on the layer. Additionally, we have two-layer formers that are mounted on top of each other. That was a key design part of this project to minimize the amount of floor space required to palletize these cases.
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Aug20
00:01 Speaker 1: We’re in Park City just outside Wichita, which is considered the air capital of the world. We’ve had a lot of airplane manufacturers here: Boeing, Spirit. A lot of airplane history in the Wichita area.
00:13 Speaker 2: We warehouse aluminium, we do cut it all down to size, and we send it out to any customer out in the world, which right now we have several hundred of them. We have 26 forklifts, they are constantly running. We’ve even had to create part of our warehouse, what we call the highway, and it’s specifically developed for forklift travel.
00:31 Speaker 1: A couple of years ago we’d come in and there’d be two or three forklifts in the shop, some of them would need some extensive repairs. Last year, we started bringing in these Toyotas, forklifts in the shop, very reliable forklifts.
00:42 Speaker 2: We’ve noticed a dramatic drop in what we’re spending on forklift repairs, which ultimately hits the bottom line if you’re able to save a lot of money by utilizing the T-Matics system.
00:53 Speaker 3: The T-Matics system gives the operations the ability to have that end-to-end experience knowing exactly which operator is on the forklifts, and they understand what’s going on from the minute that person logs into the lift to the minute they log off of that lift.
01:07 Speaker 1: Before an operator can start it, he has to check various points that we decide, and if he comes across something that’s not right it’ll lock the forklift down until maintenance comes, looks at it, fixes it, and then puts it back into service. T-Matics report, I can look at that, I can see how the operators are doing, and I can hold them accountable for the impacts that they’ve caused or their driving or, on the other hand, I can praise them for driving well.
01:31 Speaker 4: Whenever we have people not following those best practices, we’re able to look at it as, is it a process, is it an area, is it a specific truck, or is it a specific employee?
01:42 Speaker 1: We spend a lot more time working on our machines, a lot less time working on the forklifts. Overall the Toyota T-Matics system makes our job a lot easier in maintenance.
01:51 Speaker 3: It’s exciting for Toyota and T-Matics to work with partners like ThyssenKrupp to be able to supply the aerospace industry.
01:58 Speaker 4: At the end of the day, it’s great to work at a place that, no matter how small, what we do here affects the bigger picture and puts planes in the air for the people flying them every day.
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Aug20
00:05 Speaker 1: So Newell Brands is a consumer goods powerhouse. It’s mostly consumer goods, such as Rubbermaid, Rubbermaid Commercial, Sharpie markers, PaperMate pens, Calphalon cookware, and the Mr. Coffee.
00:16 Speaker 2: Here at the Rubbermaid facility in Ohio, we were assembling all the kits on a box line. Basically, the box line was a 100-foot long conveyor with anywhere from 15 to 20 operators.
00:29 Speaker 1: The overall facility is 850,000 square feet, of which 500,000 is manufacturing and 300,000 is warehouse.
00:38 Speaker 2: The major challenge we were trying to solve with the robotic automation was gaining productivity with packing up these set boxes.
00:50 Speaker 1: The system will help us serve our customers by hopefully improve our margin. Approximately 80% of our set volume will be able to be processed by this robotic cell, and shipping a more accurate product to the customer, which is the most important thing.
01:04 Speaker 2: We wanted to improve on the ergonomics. We also wanted to improve on our quality.
01:09 Speaker 1: Along with our cost of failure metrics, one of our biggest components is how many parts we put in a box. We’re hoping with the accuracy of the cell, we’ll be able to improve that going forward.
01:21 Speaker 2: We decided to work with Bastian Robotics because their project management team was very knowledgeable of our business, our products. They put a lot of time and effort into understanding what our needs were.
01:33 Speaker 1: The parts are made in injection molding in this facility. So we mold the parts here, then we store the parts in the warehouse, from the warehouse are moved to our pack and assembly operation within the same warehouse. The different product lines will be EFLs, as we call our Easy Find Lids, it’s where the lid attaches to the base. They’re more of a thicker part, more of a durable product. We also do TakeAlongs, the very thin-walled product and more of a disposable product. Both those will be processed on this line.
01:58 Speaker 3: Once they get conveyed into the system, we have a special device called the denesting device. It’s a mechanical device that pulls product from the NP conveyor and presents it to the robot in a specific quantity. There’s up to 10 robots in the system, and those 10 robots can pick from one or two denesters on either side, depending on what the recipe calls for. Once the case gets to the end of the system, the last robot does something a little bit different. The last product, if it’s a lid, a twist and seal lid, it doesn’t nest like the rest of the products. So those are caps, they get fed to the robot and the robot would put down the standard tool, pick up a vacuum tool, pick those lids, and place those into the case. After the product exits the system, it’s either sent down one of the additional process lines or a reject conveyor.
02:51 Speaker 1: The robotics system will process items at two different cycle times. We’ll do some of our sets at a 4-1/2-second cycle, which is about 800 parts per hour, and we’ll do some at 6-second cycle, which is 600 parts per hour.
03:05 Speaker 2: My experience with Bastian has been really good. The project managers, the sales, the engineering as far as mechanical, electrical, and programming have all been a really good help with the project, helping us understand the nuts and bolts behind the project.
03:23 Speaker 1: My experience working with Bastian Robotics has been both positive and informative. Positive as I see the progress we’ve made on the cell, and the improvements that are in front of us that could help us go to the next level. And also informative, through all the project and from all the information sessions and team that we would be able to answer questions, and to walk us through logistics, willing to work with us, listen to both sides of the story. It’s not always their solution, but it can be a team solution, and they’ve been able to work with us to come to the resolution we have today.
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Aug20
00:08 Speaker 1: As the number one selling brand of pickles, relishes, and peppers, having reliable distribution processes is a really big deal to Mt. Olive Pickle Company. Helping to keep 170 million jars of product on the move each year at the Mt. Olive, North Carolina facilities is the work of Toyota forklifts. About 80 vehicles are typically deployed throughout the production and distribution areas of these operations.
00:35 Speaker 2: We chose to go with Toyota lifts because of our relationship with our partners, Southeast Industrial. We felt that those lifts fit our application very well. The safety features on the lifts as well as the mobility and the flexibility that Toyota provides, felt like it was a good fit for our business.
00:54 Speaker 1: The Toyota forklifts are involved in nearly every aspect of product movement at Mt. Olive Pickle Company. Here, Toyota’s 5,000 pound capacity, counterbalanced forklifts with internal combustion engines, unload raw cucumbers from delivery trucks. The powerful forklifts easily climb the ramps to reach trailers in the outdoor yard. These forklifts are equipped with special rotator attachments to quickly dump the cucumbers from their containers into large washing bins. Similar trucks with pneumatic tires work in large outdoor yards containing brine vats. The vats are used to ferment the cucumbers into pickles. Toyota forklifts also move pickle products to various processing stations, such as washing and cutting. Elsewhere in the building, jars to hold the finished pickles are unloaded and brought to packing stations. The packed items are then gathered from the end of lines and taken to storage. Once at the distribution center, cases of pickles are floor-stacked up to four pallets high. To fill customer orders, Toyota forklifts provide work platforms for associates to pick individual cases onto mixed pallets. Full pallets are also selected from storage and taken to stretch wrappers. The wrapped pallets are then loaded onto outbound trailers. In total, some 20 million cases each year ship from this facility to customers in all 50 states.
02:21 Speaker 2: It’s worked out great. The lifts are reliable, durable. We have a very high speed, high-paced type business, so we have to have reliable equipment, and the equipment has held up very well for us.
02:32 Speaker 1: Forklift drivers also appreciate the maneuverability and ease of operation that they experience when driving the Toyota forklifts, including the easy to reach controls.
02:42 Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, they’re right here at your fingertips. You got your forward and reverse. You got your up and down, your tilt and your side. It’s fine. I like it right here. It’s a lot better than the ones with the handles up here. I like the controls right here at my fingertips. I’ve been driving a lift for 30 years, and it’s good lift.
03:09 Speaker 1: Pickle production is a fairly seasonable business, with peak production between May and October when the company can take advantage of local cucumber crops. As a result, the forklift needs of the company vary with production volumes. For that reason, Mt. Olive Pickle looks to its Toyota dealer, Southeast Industrial Equipment, to supply the right quantity of vehicles needed throughout the year.
03:32 Speaker 4: Mt. Olive Pickle leases their equipment primarily because they want to have fresh equipment. It’s a very high use application. They run the equipment very hard. Having reliable, durable equipment is a key aspect to their expectations. We’re always looking for ways to save them money and partner with them.
03:54 Speaker 1: Southeast Industrial Equipment also provides regular maintenance on the vehicles, including preventative maintenance, as seen here, and any other repairs needed to assure that vehicles are in top working condition. Being able to depend on their forklift fleet is why Mt. Olive Pickle chose Toyota and Southeast Industrial Equipment in the first place.
04:16 Speaker 2: Really, really good. Very reliable. They’re really able to help us in a moment’s notice if we have an issue with equipment or have additional needs for additional pieces of equipment. They’re very receptive and a great partner. Two thumbs up.
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Aug20
00:08 Speaker 1: Stemco is dedicated to safety. This focus is reflected both in the commercial truck products it makes, as well as operations at its manufacturing facilities.
00:17 Speaker 2: We make wheel end oil seals, that’s the main product line. We do a lot of other things. Anything to do with the wheel and the truck, we can make it.
00:27 Speaker 1: Its manufacturing facilities, like this one in Longview, Texas, are rugged environments that need forklifts with the power and durability to assure production keeps running 24 hours a day. That’s why Stemco chose Toyota forklifts. There are 14 vehicles in the fleet here that perform a variety of work. They bring raw materials, such as these heavy steel coils, to metal stamping operations. They also feed parts to assembly cells and pick up manufactured goods when work is completed. Toyota forklifts also load and unload delivery trucks. Recently, Stemco acquired several three-wheel electric forklifts. With their tight turning radiuses, these trucks are designed for movement in narrow spaces. Utilizing these trucks allowed Stemco to add pallet racks for temporary storage near its shipping and receiving docks.
01:22 Speaker 1: The forklifts also transport these heavy dyes used in metal-stamping operations. The dyes are stored in two separate buildings, so the trucks must navigate outside across uneven pavement. Additionally, the forklifts pick up scrap metal from various operations for recycling. The metal is taken outside and dumped into large recycling bins. Working in such rugged environments is a challenge for any forklift, but these Toyotas are designed for this kind of work. The problem though, was that they were facing damage as a result of driver neglect and abuse, running into racks and overhead doors, hitting potholes outside, bumping machinery.
02:05 Speaker 3: We started seeing just a lot of carelessness, brackets being bent, forklifts being driven in locations they didn’t need to be; just a lot of physical abuse to the forklifts, but a lot of safety items, lights, forks, back-rests, just a lot of heavy steel that was being abused.
02:27 Speaker 1: That carelessness was adding up. During a six-month period in 2016, repairs to the vehicles as a result of this damage totaled $66,000.
02:39 Speaker 3: And that’s money that’s not budgeted for, that comes straight off of their bottomline.
02:48 Speaker 1: Stemco’s Toyota dealer in East Texas, Lift Truck Supply, recommended that the company add T-Matics COMMAND, Toyota’s vehicle management system, to 10 of the 14 trucks in its fleet at Longview.
03:01 Speaker 3: It gives us real-time. It tells us that there was an impact at any time that the impact happens. It tells us the severity of the impact, it tells us the operator. What’s nice about it, it tells us instantly that something has happened that put that forklift in an unsafe condition. It may email supervisors, it’ll email safety coordinators, it’ll email the dealers.
03:27 Speaker 4: I think there’s much more accountability with the system we have now. Each driver logs in with a unique passcode. And that gives them a little bit more sense of awareness that they need to pay attention to their surroundings and be careful when they’re driving the lifts.
03:48 Speaker 1: T-Matics provides a wealth of data to track both productivity and safety.
03:54 Speaker 2: Who uses the truck and how they use it, how often they use it; are they using it in a safe way, all that kind of stuff. We’ve had a drastic drop in the kind of incidents we had when we were having damages done to the truck. That’s helped a bunch and also, in keeping with that, we’ve had less damage to facilities like overhead doors, and racks. And since we put the telematics on, those kind of problems have gone away.
04:22 Speaker 5: Alright, all you wanna do now is a visual check, you wanna check your tires, you wanna check your seatbelt, your seat. You wanna check the horn.
04:36 Speaker 1: In addition, T-Matics guides drivers in conducting safety checks before starting their shifts. An onboard display guides them through the pre-check list. Their responses are stored electronically, eliminating the paper checklist previously employed.
04:52 Speaker 6: There was opportunities for improvement, just keeping a paper checklist on a forklift that goes indoors and outdoors throughout the day; sometimes they would get wet, ink would run. I’ve gotten good feedback so far. A lot of the full-time drivers have a much easier job at maintaining records.
05:11 Speaker 7: I do that, I like the idea of the checklist monitor that we have here, which all you have to do mainly is log on. There’s no paperwork, there’s no anything else, it’s just automatically done. It’d ask you a question, you answer your question. “Yes,” “No,” “Unsafe. It needs to be inspected.” If it needs to be unsafe, it’ll stop the process, you will not be able to move the forklift at all.
05:39 Speaker 2: They check all of the tires, the forks, they check the operation of the truck, the brakes, the horns, the lights. They do a visual inspection on it to make sure there’s no damage done to the truck before they get on it. We have 19 different things that are checked on the truck, and we also thought that telematics was a good way to help us ensure that we were doing our pre-checklist before we got on the trucks, to make sure that we were doing that and keeping records of it.
06:14 Speaker 1: Between the reduction in damages, improved information on truck usage and the assurance of safety checks, Stemco has already seen a significant return on their investment in T-Matics. But more importantly, the company has assured a safer working environment for everyone.
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Aug20
00:08 Speaker 1: Moving liquid products 24 hours a day can be very heavy work for any forklift. Some of these pallets weigh well over a ton each, but doubling that load with the same truck is much more than most other fork trucks can handle. This is the Keg 1 O’Neal Distribution Center in Weatherford, Texas. The company is a regional beer distributor, providing 135 brands of sudsy goodness from 67 different breweries and suppliers. The company’s customers include restaurants, bars, supermarkets, and convenience stores throughout 31 counties in North Central Texas. Keg 1 O’Neal owes its current size thanks to some timely acquisitions. Along with those purchases, the company acquired fork trucks from many different vendors, including counter balance trucks, walkie riders, and pallet jacks.
01:01 Speaker 2: And just never were satisfied with the quality and the durability of the brands, and the capability of what we wanted to do and accomplish in our business. So we reached out to Toyota and bought our first one in 2006. Today, we’re at 110 pieces of Toyota equipment. We’ve made a full conversion to Toyota handling equipment for our warehouse functions, inbound and outbound, our pallet building functions, preparing orders for delivery the following day, and then of course electric pallet jacks where we deliver at retail with a 48-foot trailer.
01:44 S1: Keg 1 O’Neal recently constructed this new facility with the goal of making better use of vertical space. While at floor stacks many of its faster moving brews, it also utilizes racking to store other brands.
01:58 S2: We designed and built our building and reached out to Toyota to design and build the perfect forklift for our application.
02:05 Speaker 3: Keg 1 was in a unique situation when they moved from the Mineral Wells facility to this Weatherford facility. In the ability to build it however they wanted to build it. One of their big things they wanted to do was take advantage of as much vertical space as possible. With the system built, they then had to find a piece of equipment that would meet those needs as well. So, really using the Toyota engineers, and the Toyota design, the Toyota special design process, we were able to develop a forklift that fit all those needs, given the capacity they needed with the capacity retention and again, get them as high as they needed to go to fit their system.
02:43 S1: The forklift design that Toyota and Shoppas came up with, is a counterbalance truck with the capacity to double handle pallets. Using the cascade single double pallet handler attachment. Moving two pallets simultaneously has been a tremendous time saver at Keg 1 O’Neal, resulting in a huge jump in productivity.
03:03 S2: It’s cut our inbound load and unloading time in half. Much more efficient because you’re removing two pallets or loading two pallets at once versus one. So, brought a great efficiency to our inbound and outbound process. In result, saving time and money.
03:23 S1: Another requirement that Keg 1 O’Neal had was being able to lift both pallets simultaneously for high storage, either on floor stacks, or in the rack areas. That requires the truck that is extremely stable under heavy extended loads. The Toyota trucks that are deployed in this application have the capability of safely lifting one pallet 276 inches from floor level, and two pallets 156 inches high. The Toyota trucks are also very versatile and able to work outside in loading areas and in a cold room where kegs are kept at just the right temperature.
04:03 S1: Elsewhere in the building, orders are built using a fleet of Toyota electric pallet jacks. These versatile units can easily maneuver close to the cases needed for customer orders. Electric pallet jacks also ride along on the company’s trucks to make store deliveries. Shoppas continues to support these vehicles and all the fleet at Keg 1 O’Neal with fast service and parts delivery within 24 hours.
04:29 S2: We had the equipment on hand because we need it to make money. We need that equipment functioning, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. So it’s important that our equipment stays up and it stays running and it functions properly. And Shoppas has been a great partner and helped us achieve that.
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