Initial Situation
Goals and Challenges
ABF's Solution: Automated Cantilever Rack Warehouse with Crane Guidance System and Warehouse Management
An automated cantilever warehouse with automatic inbound and outbound flow and multiple occupancy was built for binderholz. The newly designed shipping warehouse consists of two halls, each equipped with an automated crane. ABF not only controls the two cranes but also manages the conveyor technology for the inbound and outbound flow of packages to the automated warehouse, ensuring that material flows are coordinated and continuous both upstream and within the warehouse itself.
Because materials are stored in different dimensions, precise determination of package measurements was integrated into the ABF control system. Building on this, OneBase®MFT ensures optimal utilization of storage capacity with dynamic, situation-adaptive storage location assignment and multiple occupancy. Additionally, intelligent relocations are continuously performed, consolidating smaller packages into remaining storage spaces to maximize capacity utilization and maintain stable access times.
A crucial component of the implementation was also a safety concept to prevent potential hazards. ABF designed and implemented this, including safety fences and doors, light grids, and emergency stop functions, with the status of the safety devices being verifiable at all times via the ABF visualization.
Result and Benefits: Fully Automated Storage and Retrieval with Maximum Transparency
In ongoing operation, the solution enables fully automated and optimized storage and retrieval of long goods, in addition to 100% transparency. The project manager at binderholz particularly confirms the benefit of individual access to packages in the automated warehouse, as this significantly improves the planning and highly efficient processing of customer loading.
Through the combined use of ABF control and safety technology and the warehouse management software OneBase®MFT, the automated crane warehouse is not only operated efficiently but also kept flexible in the long term to respond to changing Manufacturing and shipping requirements.
