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Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RSs)
Efficient, intelligent storage – built for space, speed, and growth.
AS/RS
Secure your stock and reduce damage
In today’s warehouses, storage is more than shelving — it’s the intelligent buffer between fast-moving operations and your customer promise. With Dematic, every solution is engineered to mobilize inventory, compress costs, and unlock efficiency for any product, size, or throughput.
Typical applications and uses of Warehouse Storage
AS/RSs are incredibly versatile, offering a wide range of applications across various industries:
Long-Term Storage
They are ideal for operations with items that need to be stored for extended periods without frequent access.
Goods-to-Person Order Picking
They enhance picking efficiency by automatically bringing items to operators, reducing travel time and errors.
Staging Orders
AS/RSs organize and create a buffer for orders in preparation for processing or shipping, ensuring quick and accurate dispatch.
Buffer Storage
AS/RSs provide temporary storage for inventory not currently needed for order processing.
Inventory Management
AS/RSs offer real-time tracking and management of inventory, ensuring optimal stock levels and reducing stockouts or overstock situations.
Flexible storage and retrieval for evolving operations
Dematic storage and retrieval solutions are modular by design, so systems can be tailored to your operational needs. As volumes, SKUs, and throughput change, your solution scales with you — without disruption.
Increase product security
Protect your stock at every stage with robust automation, real-time tracking, and protected flow — preserving both stock integrity and service levels.
Ensure consistent operation in every environment
Designed for resilience, Dematic systems keep goods secure and accessible across chilled, freezer, or ambient conditions.
Increase flexibility for peaks and seasonality
Adaptive software and modular automation respond instantly to surges, seasonality, or shifts in SKU velocity — keeping your business agile.
Improve accuracy
Automated flows plus Dematic’s real-time analytics ensure the right product, in the right place, at the right time — minimizing manual touchpoints and errors.
Scale as you grow
Start at your scale and expand as needed — solutions grow with your business, powered by the intelligence that anticipates change.
Faster go-live/faster ROI
Implementing an AMR solution is minimally disruptive to an operation, requiring less time and effort than traditional automated solutions. Operating and maintaining AMR solutions costs less to operate and maintain than using manual fork trucks.
Storage and retrieval solutions we offer
Dematic systems range from manual static shelving and racking to fully automated technologies that organize stock, provide quick access, optimize space, and reduce reliance on labor. Switching to an automated warehouse storage system from a forklift or fully manual system can vastly improve product handling efficiency and provide a safer operation. From large volumes of fast-moving product to slower movers with lots of inventory, Dematic provides these options:
Types of Storage and Retrieval Systems
Pallet Handling
Unit-load AS/RSs
Unit-load AS/RSs are fully automated storage and retrieval systems designed to handle heavy loads and bulky items, typically stored on pallets. They provide high-density storage and are ideal for operations that require handling large loads.
Unit-load AS/RSs use high-density racking and storage and retrieval machines (SRMs) to efficiently move loads in and out of the racking. These systems are also known as high bay warehouses or pallet crane systems because they maximize vertical space to significantly increase storage capacity.
Benefits of Dematic pallet shuttle AS/RSs
- Increase storage density: Dematic unit-load AS/RSs rapidly move loads of up to 1,800 kilograms in and out of a secured rack structure that can be up to 45 meters tall. With single- and double-deep, storage options, these systems offer outstanding space utilization in ambient, chilled, or freezer environments.
- Boost throughput: With different options for moving single or multiple loads in a single cycle, Dematic unit-load AS/RSs can achieve throughput rates as high as 60 loads in/out per hour. Dematic Software and controls allow these systems to operate unattended around the clock.
- Increase efficiency, accuracy, reliability: Dematic unit-load AS/RSs operate in an efficient “lights-out” environment. They are designed for mission critical applications, simple maintenance, and maximum uptime. The latest controls technology ensures high efficiency and accuracy.
- Enhance performance visibility: Dematic unit-load AS/RSs make informed decisions with real-time visibility of inventory and performance metrics.
Types of Storage and Retrieval Systems
Carton/Tote Handling
Miniload AS/RSs
Dematic provides a comprehensive portfolio of Miniload AS/RSs to handle the most challenging storage needs.
Ideal for manufacturing or distribution operations, Dematic Miniloads provide rapid access to trays, totes, or varying size cartons in a high-density and energy efficient storage structure.
Benefits of Dematic Miniload AS/RSs
- Increase storage density: Storage & Retrieval Machines (SRMs) rapidly move loads in and out of a secured rack structure that can be over 20 meters tall. With multi-deep storage options, Dematic Miniload AS/RSs offer outstanding space utilization in ambient, chilled, or freezer environments.
- Boost throughput: Dematic Miniload AS/RSs offer the high-speed rates while moving up to six loads in a single cycle. The SRM's patented mast design weighs 20% less than traditional rigid masts and has friction or belt drive options. Intelligent software and controls allow these systems to operate unattended around the clock.
- Enhance flexibility: Dematic offers single-mast and double-mast models of the SRM that can be equipped with up to six load handling devices. The broad portfolio of load handling devices handle 50-kilogram trays, totes, or cartons of varying sizes from 150 to 650 millimeters wide.
- Improve efficiency, accuracy, reliability: Dematic Miniload AS/RSs operate in an efficient “lights-out” environment. They are designed for mission critical applications to ensure easy maintenance and maximum uptime. Lightweight aluminum mast design, energy recovery, and energy-efficient drive technologies provide both environmental and financial benefits.
Why choose Dematic as your automation partner
Built for continuous improvement
Our partnership continues long after go‑live. Dematic Lifecycle Solutions & Services refine, modernize, and expand systems as your business evolves. Assessment, optimization, training, and upgrades extend equipment life, improve performance, and reduce waste. Ongoing support featuring modular technologies and adaptable software allow you to grow your operations without disruption, securing long‑term value.