Australian Pharmaceutical Industries, Australia
To deliver industry leading service, at lowest possible cost, Dematic developed a fully integrated solution. Innovative technologies include RF-directed operations, Voice Picking, Vertical Carousels, and an automated Aframe and associated intelligent conveyor and sortation systems. All tasks from receiving through to dispatch are integrated using a single software platform, Dematic’s PickDirector.
Solution: Split case conveyor pick
Products: Voice Picking, Case & Tote Conveyors, Racking & Shelving
Blackmores, Australia
Australia’s leading natural health supplements supplier, Blackmores, has consolidated the company’s head office, manufacturing and distribution operations into its new Blackmores Campus at Warriewood in Sydney’s northern beaches. Raw materials feed through to production, and finished goods back through to storage and distribution. Materials handling is optimized at all stages, and the DC has been equipped with the latest generation of order picking technologies including smart conveyors, Voice Picking, RF and Pick-to-Light systems.
Solution: Split Case Conveyor Picking, Case Sortation
Products: Racking & Shelving, Case & Tote Conveyors, Voice Picking
Corporate Express, Canada
In 2006 Dematic supported Corporate Express Canada in upgrading eight distribution centers to paperless picking. Throughput in the picking zones is expected to triple compared to the original paper-based solution.
Solution: Split case conveyor picking
Products: Voice Picking
D & H Distributing, USA
The giant electronics distributor’s new 476,000 square-foot Atlanta distribution center features a palate of high-tech conveying systems from Dematic, such as electronic load sensing for energy management along its 13,000 linear-feet of conveyors, and smart zone-routing for streamlined picking.
Solution: Zone Routing Pick System
Products: SortDirector, Sliding Shoe Sorters
Ferdinand Gross, Germany
Ferdinand Gross, a major European supplier of fasteners and connectivity technologies, has installed a tailor-made and innovative storage and order fulfillment solution featuring the new Dematic Multishuttle. Order throughput times have been reduced from as much as 3.5 hours to as little as 30 minutes, and as a result, the company was able to extend the incoming order cut-off time by three hours.
Solution: Goods-to-Person System
Products: Dematic Multishuttle, Pallet AS/RS, Ergonomic Picking Stations
Fossil, USA
Handling 25,000 SKUs and shipping 80,000 fashion accessories daily, Fossil’s 517,000 square-foot Dallas distribution center knows how to get the most out of its sortation equipment. Designed and built by Dematic, the DCs cross-belt sorter does triple-duty – orders are routed through it three times before exiting the warehouse destined for its 306 company-owned stores, retailers, or to be shipped direct to customers throughout the United States and in over 90 countries worldwide.
Solution: Split Case Conveyor Picking, Wave Picking
Products: Put-to-Light, PickDirector, Circular Sorters
Helukabel, Germany
Helukabel specializes in the manufacturing and sales of a wide variety of electrical cables, and serves 15,000 customers worldwide. The new logistics solution included a high-bay warehouse with 16,000 pallet location and seven stacker cranes. The stacker cranes replenish the bay racks for the picking of accessories, transport larger lots on pallets via conveyors directly to the picking stations and also return cable reels for cut-to-length orders as well as the remaining reels to the high-bay warehouse.
Solution: Auto Pallet Storage, Pick from Pallet
Products: Pallet AS/RS, Pallet Conveyor
Liberty Hardware, USA
Liberty Hardware recently converted its West Coast distribution center from a manual operation to a highly automated high-speed distribution center, and in the process reduced its labor hours by 40 percent, while speeding product delivery to its customers in one-third the time.
Solution: Case Sortation, Split Case Conveyor Picking
Products: Linear Sorters
Lifetime Brands
Lifetime Brands’ newly upgraded 700,000 square-foot Robbinsville, New Jersey distribution center, with its energy efficient conveying and sortation equipment built by Dematic, stands as a model of DC energy conservation boasting a substantial reduction in electrical power consumption while operating at 99 percent uptime reliability handling an average volume of 425,000 cartons each month.
Solution: Case Sortation, Crossdocking, Cart Picking
Products: Linear Sorters
Printus, Germany
Dematic delivered a new 37,000-m² distribution center for Germany’s leading mail order retailer Printus in Offenburg. The warehousing and conveyor system manages 14,000 articles and handles the dispatch of 20,000 packages every day.
Solution: Auto Pallet Storage, Auto Tote Storage, Split Case Conveyor Picking
Products: Pallet AS/RS, Pallet Conveyor, Miniload AS/RS, Case & Tote Conveyor, Pick-to-Light, Circular Sorters, Lifting Beams
Ratiopharm Group, Germany
To meet the growing medical and pharmaceutical market demand for fast and flexible delivery, the Ratiopharm Group had to boost the performance and efficiency of its distribution system to an unprecedented level. To do this, Dematic shortened the order picking paths and optimizing the routing of shipping cartons. The system now handles 100,000 picks per day. The project also included integration of the entire product flow into the SAP R/3 logistics software.
Solution: Auto Pallet Storage, Auto Tote Storage, Split Case Conveyor Picking
Products: Pallet AS/RS, Pallet Conveyor, Miniload AS/RS, Case & Tote Conveyor, Pick-to-Light
