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The company assumes a special challenge automating in 90% a warehouse splitting of few reliable data

SSI Schaefer Automates the warehouse of the Czech company New Wave

Editorial Interempresas17/01/2012

17 January 2012

New Wave CZ, Czech member of Karel Holoubek Trade Group, sells products of quality in the field of the articles of papelería and gift. The company delivers the requests in a minimum time to shopping centres, big warehouses, shops of gifts, jugueterías, etc. in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. With the aim to increase the productivity, diminish the costs of personnel and reduce the times of manufacturing of requests, the company bet by SSI Schaefer (Czech Republic and Graz) for the construction of his centre of distribution in Karlovy Vary.

Centre of distribution of New Wave in Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic).

To date, the fault of data of reliable and transparent process had prevented to the company realise a follow-up of the stock of goods stored and prepared for requests, classify of efficient form and deliver on time. Besides, up to now New Wave prepared the requests of way totally manual. It treated of a special challenge, since SSI Schaefer did not have access to reliable data for the manufacturing of a new logistical concept. Nevertheless, the specialist in intralogística provided an extremely demanding solution that, by means of the introduction of technologies automated, solutions of software and the delivery of all the components of an only provider, has contributed of decisive form to the success of New Wave.

The heart of the new installation is an automatic warehouse of small pieces of five corridors with 35.000 locations of storage for containers. The transelevador Schaefer Miniload Crane (SMC) guarantees a storage and desalmacenaje efficient of the commodity. The system of management of warehouses (SGA) Wamas control all the processes. In what a customer realises a request, the SGA processes the request and begins the manufacturing of the commodity. For the desalmacenaje, the SMC transports the supports of load to a zone of transfer.

The transelevador Schaefer Miniload Crane (SMC) guarantees a storage and desalmacenaje efficient of the commodity.

From here, by means of technician of transport, moves to the places of work ‘pick-to-tote', where the workers prepare the commodity according to the principle of ‘goods to man'. Again, a strip transportadora serves of system of transport that moves the commodity to the station of sending and prepares on time the delivery.

“SSI Schaefer Presented us the idea of a totally automatic warehouse according to the principle of ‘goods to man'. The solution was new for us, but resulted to be of extremely high performance. It allows us increase considerably our efficiency and optimise the capacity of storage“, affirms Dušan Maternal, CEO of New Wave. “In this way, now the company has of a logistical centre extremely advanced and powerful”.

‘Pick-to-tote'

‘Pick-to-tote' is a terminal of work for articles of slow rotation connected to a warehouse automated, that allows, for example, prepare requests directly in the containers and boxes of cardboard of the requests. Of optimum ergonomic design, exerts the process of manufacturing of asked ‘product to man' of way especially efficient. A clear orientation for the user and the monitoring of the objective points by means of a signpost of lights guarantees an upper quality in manufacturing of requests. The optional functions include applications for the compressesion and inventoried effective of the warehouse.

Provides advantages like the reduction to practically 0 the index of errors, the performance of manufacturing of requests multiplies by 10 in comparison with the traditional manufacturing, with until 1.000 picks by hour. Besides it guarantees the maximum care of the products, with the manufacturing of requests directly in the container of the request, being able to place and adjust the units directly in the container.

Another special characteristic of the place of work ‘pick-to-tote' is the concept of ergonomics ergonomics@work!: A sequence of hold on to up to down of intelligent design reduces the load of work. The metallic surfaces of contact are recubiertas wooden and contribute like this to the productivity of his employees.