When Central Steel & Wire (CS&W) decided to move from the Chicago facility that had been its home for 80 years, it envisioned creating a state-of-the-art product depot and service center that used the industry’s most efficient material handling technology. Aa member of the Ryerson Family of Companies, CS&W supplies high-quality metal products and services for a wide range of customers from job shops to large OEMs. The move would be a major transformation for the company because it was leaving behind a labor-intensive method of material handling in favor of using automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to move its wide range of metal products.