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SJF Road Crew: Busy Few Weeks at SJF

by samsterner on May 9, 2012
Unloading Yard View

The end of April/beginning of May has been a busy time here at SJF.  The last month has brought in equipment from across the board, including conveyor, pallet rack, rack systems, and cantilever.  April started out with a string of local buys.  A large retail store closed multiple locations across the Minneapolis metro, and we were able to jump on some great condition conveyor.  This includes 8 Best Flex conveyors and 500ft of 18” Skate-wheel conveyor as well.

One of 8 recently acquired Best Flex conveyors.

 

Advance Push Back in-stock at Winsted, MN headquarters

We were very fortunate to have access to a variety of systems lately, and many came into our yard for stock.  Systems brought in this month include the following drive-in rack and push-back rack systems:

  • 3 Deep Back-to-back Ridg-U-Rak Drive In
  • 5 Deep Ridg-U-Rak Drive In
  • 3 Deep Structural Drive In
  • 3 Deep Interlake Push Back
  • 4 Deep Interlake Push Back
  • 3 Deep Advance Push Back
  • 6 Deep Advance Push Back

Needless to say, we are loaded with rack systems!  These are in great shape, and all are in stock now in Minnesota.

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SJF Road Crew: Week in Review

by staff on January 3, 2012

The last two weeks started with a 14 hour day in Worthington, MN.  SJF recently purchased 540 pallet positions of Drive-in-Rack from a company located there.  Sam Sterner headed down in the morning to assist in the final teardown, banding, and loading of the components.  This is truck 1/2 for the day leaving loaded with uprights and rails for the system, headed straight to a customer in Fargo, ND.

 

The Worthington, MN shipment occurred on Wednesday, December 14.  Friday, December 16 and the following Monday were spent in Plymouth, MN installing pallet rack for a new Polaris Industries showroom.  The rack was set to allow display of ATVs and accessories for sale.

 

 

The week of 12/19 also had the arrival of several trucks from a recent purchase in Jeffersonville, Indiana.  These trucks came loaded with rack now available in stock in Winsted, MN.  A brief list includes-

48”x20′ Speedrack Uprights - 204 ea

108”x4” Speedrack Beams - 621 ea

96”x4” Speedrack Beams - 528 ea

48”x 20′  Teardrop Uprights – 40 ea

48”x52” Wire Deck - 653 ea

48”x46” Wire Deck – 747 ea

Many other items including many sizes Speed Rack uprights and beams, Teardrop Rack Uprights and beams, Sturdi-built, Palmer Shile, Ridge U Rack uprights and beams, and many other sizes of wire decking.  Call an SJF sales representative for more details!

The recent weeks also included the testing for SJF’s new carousel software, SurePik. The first run through should be up and running soon for our first customer here in the Twin Cities metro!  This is an exciting new venture in carousel controls, and can drastically improve efficiency in your carousel system.  The best part, it works with any and every carousel. Contact us today with more information on this new product!

 

Four days before Christmas, Sam Sterner headed to Rogers, MN to band up another recent purchase of Sturdibuilt pallet rack.  This included 144”x6” and 144”x3.5” Sturdi-Built beams, 48”x10′ Sturdi-Built uprights, and 144”x5” Teardrop beams.  These were brought right down the road to our stock in Winsted, MN.  These are very nice, heavy duty beams available now!

 

The month of January looks to be just as busy for us here at SJF.  Already in the works is truckloads of conveyor leaving Phoenix, AZ; three carousels we purchased in the Twin Cities; a large warehouse full of structural racking in Ohio; the implementation of our new SurePik software in MN; and many more projects around the country, so stay tuned!

 


SJF Automation Development Team announces Beta Release of Chameleon Carousel Controls for Dual Carousel Control System

by staff on February 10, 2009

02-10-2009  Press Release:

SJF Automation Development Team announces beta release of Chameleon Carousel Controls for Dual Carousel Control System.  The new dual control system provides  the client the ability to control 2 carousels with 1 Chameleon controller. Single system clients of Chameleon can  upgrade to this option simply  by having the clients return single system controllers and touch screens to SJF be upgraded to the new Dual program and Screen set. In addition to the softwware upgrade,  a new Input module will replace  the customers existing input module. More details and contact information can be found by contacting  Dave Milan at SJF Solutions Developement via phone at  630-258-0011 or by going to  http://www.sjf.com/controls/carousel_controls.html


SJF Introduces Software Solution for Carousel Control

by staff on January 19, 2009

Winsted, MN – (Dec. 9, 2008) SJF Material Handling of Winsted, Minnesota has announced the introduction of Sure-Pik(TM) Lite Carousel Storage and Retrieval Software. Sure-Pik can be used with any make or model of horizontal or vertical carousel using the original controls or SJF’s Chameleon Carousel Controls.(TM)

Users log in, then use the keyboard or a scanner to enter the part number, SKU or other identifier. Information about the part is displayed on screen, and a click of the Retrieve button brings the part location to the operations area. Full diagnostics are included, and the system can also be run in Bin Location mode, which operates much like manual carousel controls to retrieve parts by location. The View Parts function permits the operator to search for a part with incomplete knowledge such as half a part number, product type, etc.

Included is Sure-Pik Lite Manager, database management software based on Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine. Authorized users can update the parts database by adding, deleting or editing product information, location and graphics.

Sure-Pik Lite is the first off-the-shelf Sure-Pik software release from SJF. More features will be available on future releases, and custom solutions are currently available.

In business since 1979, SJF Material Handling (SJF.com) is a nationwide provider of new, used and “renewed” material handling equipment. SJF services include design, layout, engineering, installation and systems integration of material handling equipment. Headquartered in Winsted, Minnesota, SJF recently added a new Indiana sales office in 2008.

SJF Contact: Dave Milan
Chameleon & Sure-Pik Webpage
630-258-0011
dmilan@sjf.com


DJ Products – Ergonomic Material Handling

by kent on September 29, 2008

I’d like to take a minute to introduce readers of this blog to a friend of mine in the blogosphere and a fellow Minnesota material handling company.  DJ Products is a Minnesota based ergonomic material handling products company whose line of motorized carts is well known in many industries.  They offer a full line of push carts, a power mover, a tugger, a trailer mover and other ergonomic powered carts to fit a variety of needs within a number of specialized industries.

Their products range from pulling and pushing industrial carts, hospitality & hospital carts and shopping carts all the way to pulling, pushing and moving cars, trucks & trailers.  Needless to say, these carts have some serious power.

In addition to their product line, Jeff authors an industry material handling and ergonomics blog that is full of great tips, industry specific information, case studies and more.  I can highly recommend this blog as an excellent resource for material handling and logistics information.

So do yourself a favor and add this one to your reading list.  You wont regret it.

Link: DJ Products Homepage
Link: DJ Products Blog