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Austrian material handling automation specialist TGWhas introduced a new, fully automated and modular picking solution for retail distribution centres. It recently opened its new technology centre to showcase every function of its PerfectPick solution and demonstrate this highly efficient new concept with customers’ individual products.
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customers’ current needs. Each system will be built out of modules that can be flexible and economical as well as fully automated.
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ounded in 1969, TGW Logistics Group is an integrated logistics solutions and material handling equipment provider for both large and small companies. The company’s expertise lies in the planning, design, implementation and lifetime service of integrated logistics solutions to help its customers’ supply chains. Solutions offered include DC design and operational assessment, system integration, automated storage and retrieval systems for mini and unit loads, and carton, tote and unit load conveyor / sortation systems. The companies within the TGW Logistics Group can look back on a successful development. With a total staff of more than1,100 associates worldwide and subsidiaries in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland, the group plans, implements and service
intra-logistics solutions for a variety of businesses. The retail sector proved to be an especially important market segment in 2009, and in particular food retailers as well as companies in the fashion business and other retail sectors still have a high demand for innovative logistics solutions. TGW also implemented successful installations in other sectors such as the automotive, electronic or pharmaceutical industries. From its beginning forty years ago, TGW has been at the forefront in developing innovative new technology, and it has seen a variety of radically changing concepts in SKU and automation systems when the company began manufacturing early machines in the 1980s.
From the first mini-loaders built in 1981 to pick-to-belt solutions during the 1990s, TGW has developed its new PerfectPick automation system to meet
With the arrival of more staff- intensive DCs throughout the supply chain comes the need for greater more efficient automation and highly skilled staff. The TGW PerfectPick solution directly handles every SKU throughout the distribution centre without any additional load carrier and is therefore highly efficient, and an ideal method of speeding up picking processes, with less demands on employees. With its PerfectPick solution, TGW introduced a new and highly modular automated picking concept. In contrast to competing solutions, TGW handles every SKU directly on its conveyor and storage equipment without the necessity of any additional load carrier. As a result, the material flow within the distribution centre is much simpler and the solution does not need any handling of empty load carriers. Moreover the system’s lean modules, based on standardised components, enable customers to choose from different levels of automation depending on their individual processes and needs.
“The new PerfectPick solution is not only able to handle very different product sizes and weights fully automatically, but it is highly cost effective too,” explains Rudolf Hansl, managing director of TGW Logistics Group GmbH. “Depending on the selected automation level and the intensity of usage, a TGW PerfectPick solution pays off in two to four years.” TGW’s PerfectPick solution is designed to automatically configure and pack complete shop orders on
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