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
Société Alsacienne de Meubles / Cuisine Schmidt
The Cuisine Schmidt and the Schmidt Küchen belong to the parent company SALM Group France (turnover: € 220 million, 1'200 employees). For about 3'100 elements leave the three new production sites (F-Lièpvre / F-Sélestat / D-Türkismühle), what corresponds to 500 complete kitchens/per day.
Requirements
The requirements of the project were already clearly defined in advance: - the utmost care in dealing with the fronts, no damage by the automatic handling system - capacity of the system should enable 640 fronts for the storage and retrieval capacity per hour / - up to 15'000 different products. For this a overhead conveying system / special system was developed by the Gilgen Logistics.
Logistics solution
A variety of intelligent trolleys move independently on the system. In the incoming area, employees place the kitchen fronts, which are marked with a bar code, on the conveyor system. After the processing, the fronts are automatically measured, vertically placed and then picked up by a trolley. Defective parts are conveyed on a waiting position, where they can be removed.
Over a system of deflectors and lifts, the trolleys are conveyed to the high-bay warehouse. The pre-located lifts can carry three trolleys at the same time and convey the fronts to the appropriate levels. In the high-bay storage system up to 30’000 fronts can be stored. The warehouse is like a "juke box" and at any time, the customer has access to each type of front. The buffer consists of 9 lanes on 5 levels with each 666 places. The storage is divided into several sectors (length of the fronts). On request, the trolleys remove the fronts out of the storage and place them horizontally in the outgoing area. Just-in-time they are passed to the production robots, where the holes for fittings, handles, etc. are made.
