PACCAR Parts has announced it has provided a major investment to expand its Bayswater giant warehousing, manufacturing and parts distribution centre (PDC).
The Melbourne centre has undergone a multi-million dollar development, showcasing PACCAR’s ongoing commitment to keep Aussie trucks moving by improving the time it takes for essential parts to reach dealers.
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The original Bayswater site was built in 1985 before being extended to double its size in 1996. Now, this update has seen it increase by nearly 50 per cent again to 15,700sqm.
The updates include a mezzanine level, a spiral conveyor system and battery powered carts for ferrying parts. The mezzanine allows for 13,000 smaller parts weighing up to two kg to be stored above the warehouse floor, with PACCAR Parts general manager Mark Santschi saying the expansion project drew on ideas from PACCAR’s other PDCs around the world.
“The entire new section of the building has a 257-kilowatt rooftop solar system that captures energy from sunlight, there is also 16 water storage tanks in addition to the 12 we already had,” he says.
“Once the solar panels are hooked in to our building management system, they should cut our energy consumption by about a third.”
The rain water that’s captured services toilets and gardening, with excess water used in PACCAR’s adjacent truck manufacturing facility, which has been the home of Kenworth truck manufacturing in Australia since 1971.
“PACCAR remains committed to providing outstanding product availability and customer service across Australia,” Santschi says.
“With more than 250,000 available truck parts and accessories, and utilising our highly efficient inventory management and innovative warehousing technologies, our new Bayswater PDC stocks every imaginable part to quickly service PACCAR’s extensive dealer network.”
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