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When a bottleneck costs more than you think: How one winery turned to automation

Let’s set the scene: a successful, family-owned winery in Northern California. Two shifts a day. Seven days a week. Bottling line running smooth—until the very end, where cases stacked up, and progress slowed. Why? Manual palletizing.

They had modernized everything upstream, but the last step remained a human bottleneck. Every missed shift or stretched headcount meant production targets slipped.

If you’ve ever had to move people from critical roles just to keep boxes moving, you know the pain.

Josh Davis
By Josh Davis
on May 22, 2025 in Palletizing. 2 min read time
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