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
Huawei, China
Huawei Technologies, a worldwide manufacturer of IT network products worked together with Dematic to develop a warehousing and materials flow solution. The solution uses ASRS storage and order-picking facility with some 23,000 pallets and 42,000 bins.
Solution: Auto Pallet Storage, Auto Tote Storage, Goods-to-Person System
Products: Pallet AS/RS, Miniload AS/RS, Pallet Conveyor, Case & Tote Conveyor
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
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
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
