Optimum performance in the automated warehouse of pallets of SSI Schaefer in ICP logistics
on July 25, 2013
ICP logistics is an operator of advanced logistics, with a differential technological development of the information management orientation. In its central warehouse of Meco was automated a part of its warehouse of pallets. The solution provided bySSI Schaefer It consists of two halls of double bottom shelf 3.732 locations in total. To store and withdrawn the pallets were installed 2 stacker cranes of curve, each working on its own Hall, with the peculiar characteristic of could move rapidly from a hallway to the other. This duplicity gives the installation a sorely-needed redundancy for our customer: during maintenance of a Stacker crane, this park in a zone designated for maintenance and repair work, and the other stacker crane continues with its operation with full and free access to all locations on both corridors, maintaining a very positive performance of system.
The installation also has its headwaters of conveyor tracks, where transport to store units spend checks at the point of induction, such as weight, stability of the pallet, label reading and checking the quality of the pallet. If necessary, will be automatically added a pallet having dimensions and conditions necessary to be transported in an automatic system.
The control of all the elements of this system 'Material flow Control' carried out Wamas-MFC, which ensures an optimal execution of transport orders, assigned by the own system of ICP logistics, SCL.Net, via an interface with this. Installation and start-up of the system were carried out according to the standards of quality that has SSI Schaefer, In addition to advance in three weeks the start point production, thanks to a successful work of the staff involved.
ICP logistics, business Spanish, is a leader in the sectors of telecommunications, and automotive, as well as operate in other areas of high demand logistics as pharmacy, IT services, energy, consumer electronics, cosmetics, Editorial or power, and with more than 30% average annual growth. With more than 55,000 square feet of stores, its headquarters are situated in the Corredor del Henares of Madrid and it is present in other strategic places such as Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Bilbao. The company, located among the 15 first companies in the sector with a turnover of more than 43 million euros in 2012, It manages over 4 million shipments a year with a staff of 350 people.
