WAREHOUSING & STORAGE FEATURE AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE FORMS DISTRIBUTION CENTRE CORE
Pipe Center has opened a new distribution centre (DC) in Measham, Derbyshire. The 142,000 sq ft facility which went live in December 2014 has given the business the ability to provide next-day delivery across its entire network and created over 50 new jobs. At its heart is a bespoke 3332-location KASTOunicompact 4.0 automated warehouse. The cassette-type tube storage system provides dynamic goods- to-man presentation for efficient picking which reduces the amount of manual handling required. The warehouse structure has boosted storage capacity by 20% compared with the previous operation which relied on storage of long stock using a mixture of cantilever racking and bulk stacking with a separate section for small parts and an area for pallet storage. The KASTO system has reduced the
distance warehouse operatives have to move when picking, speeding the consolidation of orders. The design increases the height used for storage of SKUs (stock keeping units). The reduced footprint represented significant cost savings. The KASTO control interfaces with Measham’s HighJump warehouse management system which offers superior tracking and traceability of
inventory, further maximising efficiencies and reducing costs. The optimised storage and picking coupled with improved stock management allows an even broader range of products to be stored and delivered to the branch network. Each cassette is 7 metres long and 3332 of them are arranged in 78 blocks horizontally and 22 rows vertically to a height of 12 metres on both sides of a central area along which a picking crane travels on rails. Some locations are not filled due to the presence of building columns. The width of the installation in
The cassette-type tube storage system provides dynamic goods-to-man presentation for efficient picking which reduces the amount of manual handling required
the warehouse is just over 22 metres and the length nearly 80 metres. The top seven rows contain cassettes measuring 645 mm high, the very top location being 40 mm deeper still while the lower 15 rows house 435 mm high cassettes. All are 770 mm wide and accept material up to 6.8 metres long. The crane travels with two cassettes weighing up to 4,150 kg each between the store locations and three input/output stations, extracting and/or returning material at up to 160 m/min longitudinally and 40 m/min vertically. These motions are performed simultaneously for maximum productivity while cassette pulling and return speed is up to 80 m/min. “We have created one of the most dynamic and advanced distribution centres in the industry that will help us achieve customer service excellence,” says managing director Andy Wighton. “Measham DC is ideally placed geographically and fits with our supply chain strategy to operate as efficiently as possible. It optimises our distribution capability to accommodate our growth ambitions for the next 10-15 years.”
KASTO T: 01908 571590
www.kasto.uk.com
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PHOENIX HANDLING SOLUTIONS
Phoenix Handling Solutions Limited are based in Burnley, Lancashire, we are the sole UK distributors of end of line packaging machinery for a number of very well established ‘European Principle Suppliers’, who have installed thousands of systems all over the World.
The business has more than 50 years combined experience in material handling system’s and thus we provide a wealth of knowledge to be gained by our customers.
Our area’s of activity are as follows: • Pick and place robotics for palletising or tray packing • Robotic palletisers – fixed and moving on a track • Gantry type palletisers
• Layer palletisers – high and low level infeed for cases or sacks • Pallet stretch hood and shrink systems • Pallet stretch wrappers – semi and fully automatic • Rotary turntable, rotary arm and rotating ring types • Integrated product and pallet handling conveyor systems • Case packing either standard American or wraparound type • Collation shrink/tray packing machines • Project Management • Spares and service to UK customers • Maintenance contracts
PHS has a number of UK partners who we work with, to provide ‘Turnkey’ solutions if required. We are able to integrate other types of machinery such as pack conveying systems, labelling systems, check weighing systems and metal detectors for example.
If you have a requirement for a stand alone machine, or a complete system, we would be very pleased to discuss our range with you.
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Please contact 0845 265 7570, email
info@phs-uk.com or visit our website
www.phs-uk.com
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