IN A BOX AUTOMATED
STORAGE
The
retail and wholesale
hardware dealers
co-operative COINFER has
enhanced the stock
management of its
members with the recent
installation of a 4,048
box-capacity automated
warehouse at its
headquarters in
Valencia, Spain. With
the successful launch of
this new automated
system, the Co-op has
given the go-ahead to
gradually replacing its
conventional storage
scheme with a
robot-controlled system,
and has undertaken plans
to expand the warehouse
with the addition of a
two-aisle 7,316
box-capacity shelving
unit, handled by three
stacker cranes.
 As
of the first Thursday in
November (data is
updated on a weekly
basis), these shelving
units stored 2,300
different products, 90%
of which are small-sized
tools (pliers, drill
bits, bearings, crescent
wrenches, double-ended
wrenches, etc.). All
told, this isle only
stores a small part of
the 23,300 products that
the Co-op stocks at its
headquarters, where it
has a total surface area
of 7,500m2 for logistics
operations. Thus, the
bulk of its products are
stored in a
six-meter-high
conventional warehouse
with pallet racking,
where the first storage
levels are for picking
and the rest are for
storage bays for
replenishing items. All
types of products are
stored on these
conventional racking
units: small electrical
appliances, household
equipment, power tools,
paints, plumbing
fixtures, construction
materials, plastics,
protective work gear,
etc. 
Coinfer plans to
gradually replace its
conventional storage
scheme with an automated
one. In this connection,
following the successful
start-up of its first
intelligent warehouse,
the process of enlarging
the project is already
underway. Specifically,
the Co-op will extend
the two existing
shelving units to a
length of 50 meters and
install an adjoining
second automated
warehouse with the same
measurements
(50x7x3.5m). The only
difference between them
is that the boxes of the
first warehouse measure
400mm x 600mm x 170mm,
while those of the
second warehouse, which
will store somewhat
bulkier objects, will
measure 400mm x 600mm x
220mm.
TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS:
Shelving Length: 50m
Shelving Width: 3.5m
Shelving Height: 7m
Load Unit: In a Box
boxes (400mm x 600mm x
170mm and 400mm x 600mm
x 220mm)
Maximum Load: 50kg/box
Total Capacity: 4048 +
3312 = 7316 Boxes (sum
of two in a Box storage
systems)
Picking Stations: 2
Units
Transelevators: 2
(model: ML-IAB-300)
Transfer Speed: 300m/min
Elevation Speed:
120m/min
Fork Speed: 60m/min |
