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Westfalia merges old and new technologies for United Dairy Farmers.
An amalgamation of thu "old and new" is helping to bring efficiency to a warehouse facility in Erlanger, Ky., owned and operated by Cincinn.iti-b.ised United Dairy Farmers (UDF), manufacturer of frozen desserts since 1934, with a line that includes Homemade Brand Premium Ice Cream, and United Dairy Farmers milk & ice cream products.
The plant upgrades, completed by York, Pa.-based Westfalia Technologies, a leading provider of warehouse and plant automation solutions, utilize its Savanna.NET" Warehouse Management System (WMS), and also represent the first non-Westfalia storage system retrofit in the U.S. market, interfacing the new software package with an existing Wood son storage system.
The existing storage system, which replenishes pick lanes and fills pallet orders, along with its accompanying control software, were installed as part of a 1995 expansion at UDF's Erlanger facility, a warehousing and distribution center.
According to Dale Torline, systems manager for UDF, a company-wide directive to update support hardware subsequently prompted the exploration of new software technologies. "The Woodson system ran on the database...