Near 100%
May 1st 2006

Anewly-commissioned fleet of Atlet trucks is performing at 99.74% uptime for a justin- time component supply operation at Cummins Engines' manufacturing plant in Daventry.

Cummins' new Atlet fleet comprises twelve UNS Tergo reach trucks, two Presto PLP pallet transporters and a TSP Nova pedestrian stacker. As part of the deal Atlet also supplied a pair of Nissan counterbalance truck. The trucks are operating in a new purpose-built 3700 sq m warehouse.

The warehouse stocks all parts required to assemble an engine.

Parts arrive in a wide variety of containers, including pallets and stillages, and are offloaded by the counterbalance trucks. The Atlet UNS Tergo reach trucks put the goods away into a 4000-slot racked store. Small components are stored in shelved boxes and on flow-racks at floor level.

"The reliability of the new materials handling fleet was therefore critical" says Cummins' transport analyst Paul Woodcock. "As part of the tendering process we demanded that the trucks were capable of providing a minimum of 92.5 per cent uptime.

"The Atlet fleet has more than exceeded our expectations. We monitor truck uptime very closely indeed, and the Atlet trucks are currently running at an average of 99.74 per cent."

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