Automatic Storage and Retrieval (AS/RS)

Automatic Storage and Retrieval (AS/RS) systems are a cost-efficient way to maximize the productivity of your new storage facility.

This system has specialities in the design and installation of AS/RS including unit load systems, mini load systems and integrated storage systems.

Narrow Aisle VNA - Automated Guided Vehicle AGV

this video is about NARROW AISLE we have posted in our previous posts. this video will show how the automated machines helps to fit the boxes in between the narrow aisle and put up on high racks. Hopes this video makes reader have a clearer view.

Carton Live Storage From BITO

Carton Live Storage

-combination of automatic smart storage system with technology like bar code scanning.

it shares about easier picking system.
all storage units moving consistently without distruption. storage is done by FIFO system. Replenishment can be done immediately by the tracking system.It also shared about how shelvings helps to make storage easier.

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Longspan racking

Longspan racking adapts the structure that the beam hitching on the frame, the beam of this kind rack can be easily adjusted by step of 50mm.

This kind of rack is more bearing and longer beams, usually the bearing between 350kgs and 800kgs.

Features:

1) Luxurious and elegant

2) Optimizes warehouse space

3) The layer can be steel plate or wood plate

4) The height can be adjusted easily by 50mm one pitch

5) Easy to assemble without any screw thread connectors.

LINPAC delivers fine quality storage solution for Direct Wines

This is a case of storage of how this company makes proper and effective storage system for special products, WINES. As we have learnt, WINES are more fragile and need special storage temperature to maintain the freshness of the wine. the bold sentances are the main points regarding how they store and pick the wines.

LINPAC delivers fine quality storage solution for Direct WinesLINPAC Storage Systems has installed a bespoke storage solution into the new, Gloucester based, UK distribution centre for Direct Wines.

The solution consists of a combination of very narrow aisle racking for bulk stock and specially designed shelving for the picking areas.

The distribution centre has been developed to cope with a throughput of over 50 million bottles a year.Melvyn Brown, general manager for Direct Wines, selected LINPAC Storage Systems to manufacture and install the solution at Gloucester as he had already worked with the company on a previous contract - the Direct Wines warehouse in Theale.

"LINPAC met all of our specifications and we presented them with some very precise storage issues to address," says Brown, "particularly with regard to the way bottles are presented to pickers. Theale proved to be a very good test bed and LINPAC demonstrated that they could modify their standard carton live product with upward sloping trays at the pick face specifically designed for us."

Direct Wines required another distribution centre because they had outgrown the Theale warehouse which is attached to their head office. The company had spent time outsourcing a large part of its operation, but has now brought the complete storage and distribution operation in house using both the original warehouse and the new distribution centre in Gloucester Business Park.At 180,000 sq ft, the Gloucester facility is larger and more modern than the Theale warehouse.

It has been specifically designed by Direct Wines in conjunction with their consultant, The Logistics Business, for maximum productivity to support a high level of consumer service.

Inside the warehouse the very narrow aisle racking has a bulk stockholding of 18,000 pallets of wine which is destined, almost exclusively, for the UK market.

Pick and deposit stations facilitate the safe handling of loads into and out of the racking and there is a special racking section for packaging which is stored on mesh decks at one end of the warehouse.

There are several areas of the distribution centre dedicated to picking - pick to light, pick to voice and two step picking.

In the pick to light area, LINPAC has installed pallet racking with carton live beds.

Longspan shelving is used in the pick to voice area with tilted mesh decks for the speciality wines and carton live beds with upward sloping picking trays for the more popular brands.

At the pick face these special trays present the opened cases of bottles to the picker at an ideal angle. The upward slope of the tray also acts as a brake on the cases of wines stored on the carton live preventing them from rolling down and knocking into the case which is being picked from.I

n the two step picking area, wines are picked from carton live on the top level whilst the bottom section is fitted out with galvatite decked reverse slope chutes. These chutes are used to remove the empty cardboard wine cases.The cases of wine are transported around the distribution centre on an automated case conveyor system - this system is also supported by LINPAC's racking.Direct Wines, the world's leading independent retailer of home delivered wines, is better known to many by one of its trading identities such as Laithwaites, The Sunday Times Wine Club or The Barclaycard Wine Service.

Started in 1969, the company is still privately owned by Tony and Barbara Laithwaite, its turnover is now in excess of £250m.Based in Milton Keynes, LINPAC Storage Systems is one of the leading British manufacturers of quality storage solutions. The company is part of the world renowned LINPAC Group of companies - the UK leader in storage and materials handling.

Vertical Carousels are a general class of storage machine that utilizes chain and track / linkages that rotate box structure shelving modules in a vertical plane.

Vertical carousels resemble a ferris wheel in dynamics, the individual shelving modules are kept horizontal on their path around the vertical track with the use of mechanism.

This is basically using the combination of the chain path of the machine and the secondary GUIDE TRACK and STABALIZING ARMS to shelves the items.

Vertical carousels are available in many load carrying capacities, shelf module dimensions and overall height.

Vertical carousels range from household kitchen pantry consolidation to large industrial units loaded to many tons and heights of 40 feet and more.

Vertical carousels are suited for consolidating the storage of like sized small parts in a small footprint, as the technology is somewhat expensive on a purely volumetric basis.

My personal reflections:

I remembered during my SIP period, my warehouse manager also told me that COURTS (S) is also using this storage system for certain inventories. The advantage for this system he told me is that this system enables FIFO. Which helps to clear the most early stocks first. this helps to prevent obsolete inventories.

A gravity storage system, or live storage, gravity-feed rack assembly or apparatus, characterized by modular units or bays each comprising vertical side frames and horizontal shelf frames. Track and guide means for storage and gravity feed of the racked stock or merchandise. Means for adjustably laterally positioning, and releasably vertically holding down, said track and guide means on said shelf frames.

Sharing time!

I have actually also observed IKEA having this storage idea. They filled the long net with small cushions then drop it into the big trays. When a cushion is being retrived, the subsequent cushions stacking up there will drop.

Very Narrow Aisle and High Bay Storage Systems

When very narrow aisle and high bay storage systems are needed, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS) is often used to store inventory, buffer processes, and sequence products as needed.

AS/RS systems can handle a wide variety of product units such as cartons, totes, and pallets. In addition, AS/RS systems provide very accurate inventory control information systems and can accommodate a wide variety of product types including raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods.

Two of the primary drivers for using AS/RS are that they reduce labor and provide consistent sequenced material flow to downstream packing or shipping operations.

AS/RS makes excellent use of the vertical cube space available to store more product in a given footprint thus serving as an excellent solution for very narrow aisle and high bay storage system applications.

The in-feed and discharge locations can be at multiple levels on the end or sides of the AS/RS. Typical AS/RS applications include:

• Freezer/cooler storage and picking since they are typically tough environments for operators.


• Consolidation buffers since they collect various line items for an order and then release the order all together when all line items are available.


• Burn-in testing for electronic items or cooling/curing buffers.


• High security items which need to be isolated from operators.


• Assembly operations (sequencing).


• Point-of-use buffers allowing Kan Ban generated product requests to quickly be transferred to the assembly area.


• Sortation or sequencing of discharged product.

Storage space with combine efforts of mechanisms and technologies make great STORAGE SYSTEM.

Just look at how storage system can do wonders!
storage is improtant for many reasons, some are:

• Server capabilities are maximized
• Open floor space is increased
• Management costs are lowered

You will have a clear view of all the stocks and they can be catogorised.

in case of fire, there are space to run and escape.

Warehosue Racking & Industrial Shelving

A system for non-palletized cartons.

The system features 26-foot-high frames with 13 beam/shelf levels. Each beam level is fitted with waterfall-style wire-mesh decks. These create a shelf membrane ideal for storing even the smallest cartons.

Company like UPS adopt this shelving as they have alot of boxes/ cartons in small packs. this ystem enables storage to be neat and will not drop cartons with the wire mesh attached.

Structural steel aisle guides and full-width structural steel entry guides protect the frames. These features also help guide the warehouse operator into the aisles. The system also features a custom coloured racking and beam location labeling system. This ease the process of locating the carton, and provides a clear view of products.