Fast, flexible and efficient automated small-sparts warehouse
Our automatic small-parts warehouse for storing various sizes of containers and trays are available to you for different performance requirements.
These stacker cranes are automatically operated rail-mounted devices for automatic warehouses. These systems are designed for containers and trays weighing up to 50 kg.
The running gear and hoisting mechanism being constructed primarily of aluminium section, the storage and retrieval device only weighs about 2,000 kg.
We offer one-stop overall material flow solutions adapted to your processes, from the idea to a realised turnkey logistics System.
KTL 50
The basic unit for simple warehousing with standard containers up to a payload of 50 kg.
This stacker crane is the solution for simple warehousing or as an in-feed device for gravity picking systems.
Multiple load-lifting devices can be used to increase capacity.
KTL 250
The stacker crane for high storage capacities and loads up to 250 kg.
This stacker crane can be equipped with various load-lifting devices to meet the respective requirements.
Multiple load-lifting devices can be used to increase capacity.
Advantages of the system
- Mobility, functionality and economic efficiency for transporting packaging and for storage
- Fast and precise access to inventory, improvement of the overview of inventory and inventory security
- Speed when travelling: up to 6 m/s, and when lifting up to 2 m/s acceleration / deceleration to 2 m/s2
- Short approach dimensions
- Single- , double- or multiple-deep storage for increasing picking and inventory turnover performance
- Flexible load-carrying, carousel with up to 10 loading aids simultaneously
- Low overall weight
- Vulkollan track wheels make for less flexing work, lower energy requirement
- Frictional drive system, optimum efficiency, high energy efficiency
- All elements to be serviced are at the bottom of the device
Elco AG, CH-Brugg
Elco AG, based in CH-Brugg, specializes in the manufacture of envelopes, stationery, paper and packaging materials. With a production capacity with up to ten million envelopes and direct mailings per day, the Elco AG is one of the most important companies in the area “envelopes & direct marketing".
Requirements
During the start up of the building in 1991, four aisles of the high-bay warehouse were operated with one automatic stacker crane (plus a manual stacker crane). In the meantime the production capacity of Elco AG has significantly risen. Every day up to 80-100 tons of paper is processed and up to 10 million envelopes and blocks is delivered; resulting a handling of approximately 800 pallets per day. To keep pace with this development, it was essential to adapt the logistics to the current and future requirements.
Logistics solution
After several extensions and modifications, the Gilgen Logistics was assigned for the new extension of high bay storage system and modification of the production. The high bay storage system was extended with one stacker crane and actually operates with five fully automatic stacker cranes. The storage building was extended up to 75 m with a capacity of 8’000 pallet places. The dispatch area is expanded with 3 commissioning work places, a stretcher in the outbound area, a pallet conveyor system in the incoming area and the connection to the production.
The extension of the storage system results a high efficiency in the material handling of Elco. The finished goods are professionally stored and are delivered just in time within 24 hours to each place in Switzerland.
