Washington Fruit & Produce Company | Food & Beverage

Improve Efficiency with Advanced Automation in Fruit Packing 

Washington Fruit and Produce Company specializes in growing, packing and shipping high-quality fruit. With the perishable nature of fresh produce, Washington Fruit needed to upgrade their storage and packing facilities to enhance efficiency and maintain high quality standards. Their existing manual processes were becoming a bottleneck, limiting throughput and increasing labor costs. 

Washington Fruit partnered with RH Brown, now proudly part of Bastian Solutions, to implement an automated system that separates, stacks and palletizes fruit boxes with remarkable efficiency. The system has increased productivity, reduced labor costs, and maintained high-quality standards, positioning the company for continued success and growth. The facility now averages over 100 bins per hour, setting company records even during testing.  

“The automation solutions provided by Hytrol and RH Brown have transformed our operations. We set company records even during the testing phase and can now meet customer demands more efficiently than ever before.” – Mikey Hanks, Systems Operator, Washington Fruit and Produce Company. 

 

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Results

With the new automated system, Washington Fruit and Produce Company achieved remarkable improvements in their fruit handling operations.  

  • Increased throughput over 42%, from 70 bins per hour to over 100
  • Increased labor productivity to 15 boxes per employee hour (up from 11)
  • Improved system maintenance efficiency, with the same maintenance crew handling twice the amount of equipment
  • Maintained high consistency and quality standards for fruit handling
  • Enhanced ability to meet stringent fruit standards set by the state of Washington
 


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