FEATURE WAREHOUSING & STORAGE
SIEMENS IMPROVES SERVICE WITH NEW FUTURE PROOF WAREOUSE
first beam level as well as ground level. The top-level locations can hold up to 4-tonnes. Siemens has never racked engines
before and this was also the heaviest pallet that BITO has ever stored. A prototype programme that involved a BITO structural engineer in Germany, produced components that were produced and tested at Siemen’s existing site with the heaviest engine – a 6-tonne SGT gas turbine – on a 1 tonne pallet.
Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery invested £48 million in the Teal Park site and to consolidate its service and storage operations into a new Global Service Operation Centre to promote health & safety, deliver reduced cycle time and costs while expanding service capabilities, with help from BITO
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iemens Industrial Turbomachinery designs, manufactures and services
small industrial gas turbines, with an installed fleet of over 3,500 units across 90 countries. 1500 of these remain operational with key customers in the oil and gas industry, industrial customers, hospitals and paper mills. To gain competitive edge in delivering
an industry-leading service to customers, which is essential for business sustainability, Siemens invested £13 million in the total project cost of building a new, Global Service Operation Centre (GSOC) next to its overhaul facility at its Teal Park site in Lincoln, to consolidate its service and logistical operations. The whole site represents an investment of £48 million. Key objectives for the new joint
warehousing, engine management, tooling and spare parts facility were to: promote health and safety, facilitate growth, increase cycle speed, expand capabilities and reduce costs within a future-proof operation. The consolidation included relocating
Siemens’ small gas turbine parts, engine and tooling storage, previously located at a site nearby, together with bringing in
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off-site storage and the operations of the Siemens’ aeroderivative gas turbines group company. This combined operational footprint of 12,000 square metres would have to fit into the new 7000 square metre GSOC, while also maximising operational efficiency.
BESPOKE ENGINE RACKING REDUCES FOOTPRINT The previous facility stored these heavy engines on the warehouse floor, occupying a large footprint with a considerable amount of wasted space above, while also being inefficient for engineers to locate a specific engine. To fit into the 7000 square metre footprint, this ‘air-space’ had to be utilised, while more efficient inventory management was needed to give engines their own ‘bin location’. The answer was an impressive three-
level high engine rack providing 72 locations, served by a wire-guided sideloader. The bespoke design, by BITO Storage Systems using standard beams and uprights, enables engines weighing up to 6-tonnes, and stored on 1-tonne pallets (specially designed by local fabricator Rilmac), to be located on the
NOVEMBER 2018 | MATERIALS HANDLING & LOGISTICS
Floor staff productivity is maximised by LEOs taking over simple transporting duties and reducing travel time by 30 per cent
SAFE AND EFFICIENT INTERNAL TRANSPORT With health and safety a design priority, Siemens collaborated closely with BITO and Kardex on an innovative driverless internal transport system to separate vehicle and human work areas, while providing swift and safe transfer of items between Goods In, the Kardex Shuttles and the packaging stations. Six BITO LEO Locative AGVs
continuously circulate, following tape laid on the floor. Floor mounted barcodes give each LEO instructions and guide it reliably to a hand-over station where it deposits its tote and collects any awaiting pick-up. Foldable containers are used for the
Internal transport totes. The scheme incorporates empty tote storage above the LEO stations using Carton Live Storage (CLS) as a buffer. When an item is sent across from Goods In for putaway, the component is removed from the tote and put in the appropriate bin of a Kardex unit. The empty collapsible totes are then folded down and fed into the back of a CLS lane to flow to the front, ensuring a tote is available when components are required for the outbound pick up by a LEO. Clive Cox, project manager for Siemens
Industrial Turbomachinery, says: “When it came to installation BITO’s on-site team were very efficient and complimented by the main construction group on their work ethic and housekeeping so from our point of view, it all worked very well. We are extremely happy with the quality of BITO products. The company is supportive, very responsive and worked closely with us to give the service we needed throughout the complex project.”
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