Automated Packaging and Material Handling Systems in Chicago, IL
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Complete Solutions Built Around Your Operation
Your material handling and packaging equipment is only part of your broader operation. RMH Systems brings the pieces together into a system designed around how materials move through your facility.
✓ 80+ years of experience
✓ One in-house team from design through installation
✓ Complete systems engineered around your equipment, facility, and workflow
✓ Service and support after installation and beyond
The result is a system that helps you move, store, lift, and package products more efficiently. Whether you’re planning a new facility, adding equipment, or improving an existing operation, our Chicago team can help you find the right approach.
Conveyor Systems
Keep products moving efficiently with conveyor systems designed for distribution, fulfillment, and manufacturing operations.
Move cases and palletized loads efficiently through warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities.
Route products quickly and accurately to multiple destinations in distribution and fulfillment operations.
Automated Packaging Machines
Reduce manual handling and keep products moving with automated packaging machines designed around your operation.
How We Automated a High-Volume Packaging Operation
Major Household Goods Distributor
During the pandemic, a surge in consumer demand left a major household goods distributor struggling to keep up with orders. The company’s existing fulfillment process couldn’t handle the increased volume, resulting in an order backlog of nearly three months.
The distributor needed to significantly increase fulfillment capacity while creating a more efficient, scalable process for picking, packing, and shipping customer orders.
Challenges
- Nearly three-month order backlog
- Rapid increase in order volume
- Existing fulfillment process unable to keep pace
- Too many manual touches throughout fulfillment
- Need for greater long-term capacity and scalability
Solutions
RMH Systems designed and implemented a complete automated order fulfillment system for the company’s 600,000-square-foot distribution facility in the Chicago area.
The solution included three carton-flow pick modules and an integrated order-picking system connected to automated packaging and shipping conveyors.
Automation was incorporated throughout the fulfillment process, including:
- Carton erecting
- Pick-to-light technology
- Barcode scanning
- Conveyor and accumulation
- Sortation
- Print-and-apply labeling
- Automatic carton sealing
- Shipping label application
- Packing list generation
- Order manifesting
By integrating these technologies into one complete system, RMH created a streamlined process that moved orders from picking through packaging and shipping with fewer manual touches.
Results
✓ Increased order fulfillment capacity
✓ Reduced manual handling
✓ Faster movement from picking through shipping
✓ More efficient packaging and shipping
✓ Greater ability to handle fluctuations in order volume
✓ Scalable system designed to support future growth
Warehouse Racking Solutions
Warehouse racking solutions designed for different inventory, storage density, accessibility, and material flow requirements.
Flexible storage with direct access to individual pallets and a wide range of configurations, including structural and boltless.
Push Back Racking
High-density storage that holds multiple pallets deep while reducing the number of aisles needed.
Drive In Drive Through Racking
Maximize storage density by storing pallets multiple positions deep with fewer aisles.
Cantilever Rack
Open-front storage designed for long, bulky or irregularly shaped materials.
Pallet Shuttle Systems
Powered shuttles within deep-lane racking move pallets and reduce forklift travel within the rack.
Overhead Cranes & Lifting Solutions
Move heavy materials safely and efficiently with overhead cranes designed around your facility, load, and application.
Flexible overhead lifting for facilities where floor space and headroom are important considerations.
Local Service & Repair for Your Material Handling Equipment
Our support doesn’t stop after installation. From troubleshooting and repairs to preventive maintenance and parts, RMH Systems handles your material handling needs in-house with an Elmhurst-based team you can rely on.
✓ Conveyor systems and other material handling equipment
✓ Leibinger continuous inkjet printers
✓ Warehouse rack inspections
Contact Our Chicago Team
Whether you’re planning a new system, upgrading existing equipment, or need service and support, RMH is ready to help you work smarter, safer, and more efficiently.
- Address: 110 Schiller St, Ste 320, Elmhurst, IL 60126
- Phone: 630.516.1115
- Fax: 630.516.1116
