In order to minimize errors during order picking, 3PL provider Scheren has equipped his Jungheinrich order picking trucks with integrated scales. The warehouse management system interrogates the scale for the net weight increase after each order line picked, and compares this actual net weight with the theoretical weight of the articles. Only if the weight corresponds, the order picker receives the next order line on his truck terminal.

ACP supplies 500 to 1,000 boxes of components per day to several well-known lorry manufacturers. In order to prevent incomplete deliveries, all components are counted by scales integrated in the stacker trucks that lift and move the boxes. Thanks to the mobile counting scales the number of complaints from customers has decreased drastically.

At a stone’s throw of the Port of Antwerp, 3M produces semi-finished product and raw materials for a multitude of specialised products, such as foils for the aerospace industry or surgical tape for medical applications. Since these substances often represent a high value, deliveries are carefully checked by weight. This is done by means of RAVAS scales on stackers and hand pallet trucks.

Danone sometimes needed to stop production lines because containers with fruit preparations emptied unexpectedly. Nowadays, after each batch produced, the fruit containers are weighed on the hand pallet trucks that return them to the warehouse. This allows a higher efficiency in production planning and stock control.

Total Produce is one of Europe's largest importers of fruit and vegetables. All fruit sold by price per kilo, such as watermelons, is weighed on entry. And until recently they needed four employees to do that work...

Heineken Event Services supplies events with equipment and beer. Return shipments of 1,000 liter beer tanks are weighed to determine the amount of beer left in the tanks, since customers are only invoiced for the amount of beer actually consumed. Heineken uses iForks on their forklifts to weigh the beer tanks.