Kardex designed a system providing computerized inbound tote dealing with with eight VBMs, pick-to-light and put-to-light expertise and conveyors.
Now, the ATS Group manages 13,000 SKUs of their 4,350 m² distribution heart, with 40% of the SKUs managed in the 400 m² Kardex automated zone.
At present, ATS Group has elevated their effectivity and productiveness with Kardex’s scalable system, which is able to take them into the future.
ATS Group has elevated its warehouse operations with Kardex automation to avoid wasting 50% flooring house, enhance throughput 80% and scale back labor necessities by 33%.
— Kevin Mortier, Mission Supervisor at ATS Group.
WESTBROOK, MAINE, USA, October 9, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — ATS Group, headquartered in Merelbeke, Belgium, is a multidisciplinary expertise group that gives high-quality companies and merchandise throughout varied industries. Attributable to super progress, they have been working in opposition to growing demand and with restricted house. In consequence, the ATS Group wanted to restructure its major distribution heart to offer storage and processing for the small digital parts distributed to group initiatives and finish clients.
They partnered with Kardex to improve their warehouse operations by changing static shelving and conventional warehouse choosing with an automatic intralogistics resolution. Kardex designed a system providing computerized inbound tote dealing with with eight Vertical Buffer Modules (VBMs) – Kardex Compact Buffer, pick-to-light and put-to-light expertise and conveyors. Kardex JMIF software program was built-in with ATS Group’s WMS and ERP system.
After implementing the automated system, the ATS Group reported they’ve recovered greater than half the flooring house, elevated throughput by 80% (from 500 to 900 orders each day) and decreased required labor by a 3rd. Now, the ATS Group manages 13,000 SKUs of their 4,350 m² distribution heart, with 40% of the SKUs managed in the 400 m² Kardex automated zone. The answer decreased the strolling distance considerably and improved operators’ efficiency, consolation and ergonomics.
“We had expertise working with Kardex; from the mission’s starting to the set up’s finish, we had one direct contact who was all the time accessible to us. The set up groups labored to schedule, working safely and successfully. So, we’re happy that we’ve got a really efficient, high-performing warehouse that may deal with the rising variety of orders.” explains Kevin Mortier, Mission Supervisor at ATS Group.
The VBM gives excessive choosing efficiency and suppleness for computerized inbound tote dealing with
The VBM is an economical mini-load system the place normal Euro bins may be saved and dealt with mechanically. It’s ultimate for choosing small elements from bins, totes and trays in small and medium-sized warehouses. The unit design consists of a shelf system with an aisle wherein a movable mast with rotating gripper transports totes, bins or trays from a storage location to a choosing station very quickly in any respect. It may be fitted with as much as 4 entry openings or choosing stations.
At the coronary heart of every station is the turntable. Tilted at an angle of 20 levels, it’s ergonomically designed to ensure stress-free working for the operator. Whereas the operator picks one order, the VBM prepares the subsequent bin and locations it on the rear shelf of the turntable. As quickly as the choosing course of is full the turntable turns 180 levels and the subsequent bin is prepared for choosing. This fast entry to items retains ready instances to a minimal.
The VBM can be a grasp of integration, becoming seamlessly into current processes and may be tailored to suit particular person buildings and linked to current conveyor expertise with no additional effort. The conveyor connection may be fitted on the entrance, rear, or finish face of the unit.
The ATS Group chosen the VBM based mostly on its excessive efficiency, scalability and versatile system integration. It could possibly ship choosing workstations or conveyor connections on three completely different sides of the machines in any respect heights. At ATS Group, one order choosing workstation (turntable) is put in on the base flooring per machine. On prime of this, a mezzanine flooring is put in the place the replenishment with conveyors runs mechanically out and in of the VBM. The automated materials move is related by way of Kardex JMIF and seamlessly integrated into the WMS/ERP system.
The VBM’s highly effective retrieval and choosing efficiency and the computerized inbound system guarantee operators decide articles rapidly and precisely. As well as, the pick-to-light and put-to-light expertise enhances the operators’ efficiency by aiding them with laser beams throughout the choosing and placing course of. At present, ATS Group has elevated their effectivity and productiveness with Kardex’s scalable system, which is able to take them into the future.
About ATS Group
ATS Group, headquartered in Merelbeke, Belgium, is a multidisciplinary expertise group that gives high-quality companies and merchandise throughout varied industries. The corporate focuses on electrical & automation initiatives, mechatronics, HVAC & power options, and wholesale {of electrical} parts.
About Kardex
Kardex is a number one intralogistics resolution supplier of automated storage, retrieval and materials dealing with methods. With two entrepreneurially managed divisions, Kardex Remstar and Kardex Mlog, the Kardex mission is to offer options and companies to extend the effectivity in storing and dealing with of products and supplies on a world scale.
The 2 divisions function companions over the whole life cycle of a buyer’s product or resolution. From mission evaluation to realization and repair, Kardex helps enhance a buyer’s efficiency each step of the means. With three personal manufacturing crops in Germany and one in North America Kardex ensures prime quality options. To keep up and strengthen its aggressive place inside technological innovation and excellent buyer loyalty, Kardex is investing in analysis and improvement, its provide chain, the growth of its service group in addition to in new expertise by way of acquisitions. Kardex actively companions with international leaders who share the identical values and complement the Kardex options together with AutoStore, Rocket Resolution, Intertex and Sumobox.
Kardex employs 2,000 staff members throughout 30 nations and has put in over 140,000 industry-specific options worldwide.
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