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Heavy-duty structural foam construction makes this service cart tough enough for long, rugged use. Handles a wide variety of order picking, and industrial and commercial handling needs. Easy assembly.

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Not every area of grocery distribution is suited to full automation and, in these scenarios, ‘islands’ of automation – fully integrated with the surrounding manual operations – may enable clients to achieve maximum benefit for minimum investment.

Distribution centers that have both crate handling and other operations – such as manual order picking, handling of whole pallets or handling of items in cardboard cases – use a combination of logistics technologies. In these applications where full automation is generally not feasible due to cost or complexity, Cimcorp’s ‘order processing islands’ can be a highly effective solution for automating the handling of full crates.

For example, the islands are ideal for the handling of fresh fruit and vegetables within the distribution networks of large grocery retailers.

Efficient robotics

Cimcorp’s order processing islands for plastic crates feature overhead gantry robots that combine buffer storage and order picking functions into one flexible operation. With the gantry design being modular and able to accommodate any number of robots, the system can handle large volumes with ease, as well as several different types and sizes of crate. The island prepares orders for retail stores – with product pallets going in and customer pallets coming out – enabling goods to be transported to the supermarkets without the need for any further processing. The unmanned island is totally self-sufficient, taking care of goods reception, put-away, location of stored items, retrieval planning, picking of crates, sorting and assembly of crates into discrete orders, and loading of the orders onto transport units ready for delivery.

Clear Benefits

The order processing islands secure a number of key advantages. Picking rules can be customized – such as placing heavy products at the bottom of crate stacks, arranging crates into product families, splitting transport units into temperature-specific groups and taking into account expiry date or production batch. This enables consistent implementation of retailer preferences and thereby facilitates handling within the supermarkets. Full tracking and tracing are possible, with all goods movements being communicated to the host system without the need for barcodes or RFID tags. Furthermore, as the crates are stored on the floor without racking, the robots are able to empty the entire floor area fully automatically for easy cleaning to meet the demanding hygiene standards required in the food industry. Finally, with the island surrounded by safety fencing to prevent unauthorized access, security is also enhanced.

 Click to see automation in action on our YouTube page!

Cincorp is excited to announce that Spanish grocery giant, Eroski has recently placed a second order for Cimcorp’s order processing island solution.

The beginning of a new year often triggers the declaration of personal resolutions like striving to live a healthier life, exercising more, or simplifying your life and spending less money.  It sounds simple enough, but sticking to a resolution and succeeding with your goals requires a solid game plan.  One of the easiest solutions to achieve your goals may lie in the palm of our hand.  With the right suite of applications downloaded to your cell phone or tablet you have the ability to collect healthy recipes, track your fitness progress, organize your schedule and track online specials. By utilizing e-commerce you  are saving yourself time, energy, and money. Think about the time it takes you to drive to the store and drive home. With traffic, what you thought would be a fifteen minute trip to the grocery store could end up taking you an hour. Over 875 million consumers world-wide are ordering everything from groceries to travel online.  The 2013 holiday season alone saw an increase of over 13% for online shopping in the US, and in the UK a 17% increase over boxing day 2011.

This increase in online ordering certainly explains why Amazon spent 775 million to buy Kiva Systems; they clearly saw the online shopping trend for what it was and are preparing for a future that includes tech savvy consumers.  So what is your business doing to remain competitive with this online giant. What’s your business resolution for 2013?

Now that Amazon, the number one online retailer in the world, owns a robotic solution that was revolutionizing goods to person order picking and they’re keeping it all for themselves, how are other major online retailers going to compete on service?  If your company has made a resolution to improve your picking process in order to remain competitive then Cimcorp’s 3D Shuttle automatic storage and retrieval (AS/RS) solution for goods-to-man order picking may be just what you need to achieve your goals.

The unique AS/RS concept uses proven gantry robot technology, combined with an innovative shuttle device integrated into the gantry, to store and retrieve goods in plastic crates, totes, bins and containers required for order fulfillment.

Cimcorp will be launching their new solution at LogiMAT 2013, but in the meantime be sure to check out the video(
https://www.youtube.com/user/cimcorpoy
) and website (www.3dshuttle.cimcorp.com )for more information.

As a company of engineering specialists we pride ourselves on developing new and innovative solutions that help our customers remain competitive in an increasingly aggressive and price-sensitive global marketplace. As with previous years, we remained focused on delivering tailored solutions that improved overall picking inefficiencies in a variety of markets, including food and beverage and the tire industries. This focus resulted in new installations, new tooling designs and more innovative ideas to be used in 2013.

We look forward to continued success next year with the launch of Cimcorp 3D shuttle, which will revolutionize tote warehousing providing goods-to-person order picking stations.

Stay tuned for more details on this development in the New Year!

As a recap of 2012 we would like to share with you a few our celebrated successes for 2012:

Cimcorp Oy
November 6, 2012
Cimcorp wins major material handling system project for PostNord AB

September 4, 2012
Cimcorp launches a new tray sequencer at Post-Expo

May 10, 2012
Development of the eco robot series continues

January 2, 2012
Cimcorp supplies Tuko Logistics with order picking system for daily consumer goods

RMT Robotics Ltd.
September 17, 2012
RMT Robotics Announces Launch of New Layer Picking System

August 28, 2012
RMT Robotics Announces Tire Palletizing System Sale in China

July 24, 2012
RMT Robotics Celebrates Seven Years of ADAM™ Success in Tire Handling

May 1, 2012
“FIRST Follow-up” RMT Robotics-Sponsored FIRST Robotics Team Honored with Rookie Inspiration Award

Have a happy and safe holiday season from all the staff at Cimcorp Oy and RMT Robotics!

DCs that employ high volumes of labor-intensive product handling with relatively low margins can improve profitability with a new class of robotic gantry solutions that reduce costs and improve service levels without extensive, costly renovations.

RMT’s new layer picking tool has the capability of picking 95% of consumer products on the market today.

How it works

Gantry robots are built with a stationary steel frame, a moving bridge and a moving carriage. The mechanisms, which function similarly to a crane, operate near the ceiling and reach down to pick and stack orders. Attached to the gantry robot is a gripper for holding and releasing products. The gripper can hold loaded pallets, layers of product, small group or individually selected cases, cartons, bundles, kegs, consumer products, snack food, tires and more.

For multi-gantry solutions, each gantry typically works “standalone” or autonomously, unaware of the presence or absence of other gantries. A Warehouse Control System (WCS) distributes tasks to each gantry robot as needed to fulfill the overall need. Each transaction is recorded in both the individual gantry control system and the central server that carries the WCS (each system is able to back up the other in the event of a failure).  If a given robot is unavailable, its tasks are often reassigned to other gantries in the system and if throughput needs to grow, robots can be added to the system, with little or no changes to the existing software.

 Reducing space, increasing throughput

An individual gantry robot can cover an area anywhere from 20 to 60 feet wide and 20 to 300 feet long. Since a single gantry robot can work a large area all from overhead, the solution is well suited to order picking applications in warehouses where space can be tight and the number and types of products to be selectively picked can be in the hundreds, or even thousands. In addition, gantry systems eliminate the need for walkways and forklift paths, stacking products at heights not limited by a human’s reach.

 Improving loading and unloading

Unlike manual order fulfillment processes, gantry solutions can access all products for picking at all times, allowing orders to be filled in any desired sequence. The robots simplify loading and unloading by picking orders to suit a truck’s route-stop sequence, which eliminates the need for staging areas on the dock since pallets emerging from the system can go directly onto the truck. In addition, orders can be changed at the last minute with little or no reduction in throughput and order pallets continue to come out at a consistent high rate. Even the sequence in which products are placed on pallets can be tightly controlled to optimize load stability and product density based on the contents of the order pallet.

Proven results

Gantry solutions have evolved and will continue to evolve as material handling needs become more complex. We recently installed a high-speed case picking solution for a large snack food supplier in the central U.S. The engineered system, which has a footprint of less than 40,000 square feet, is designed to pick 300 SKUs at a rate of more than 250,000 cases per day. The design opened the door for further innovation that led to the recent sale of a large-scale robotic case picking solution to one of North America’s largest beer distributors.

Robotic gantry solutions have a strong installation base in the tire manufacturing industry worldwide, as well as the snack food, beverage, dairy and bakery industries. These systems are especially beneficial to companies that can only improve profitability by reducing fulfillment costs and improving service levels.

 Posted by:
Tom Pollard, P. Eng.
Applications Engineer, Automated Warehousing Systems
RMT Robotics

The Kaihotech PTL System can be used in a variety of distribution system found in normal temperature
warehouses, as well as in cold storage and freezer warehouses.

This paperless method greatly enhances productivity and accuracy for the operations such as picking, sorting and assembling in various industries.

Customized original systems that meet the needs of individual operation sites, while using their existing systems.

KTL Series can be used in a variety of distribution systems found in normal temperature warehouses, as well as in cold storage and freezer warehouses.
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KTL series provide various software application systems suited to individual customer needs.

The non-volatile memory is 123 bytes. Location information such as item codes can be easily stored.

KTL Series uses high-intensity LED lamps for light modules, which help workers to operate from up close or from afar.
The software enables original colorful LED lamps to be made.

We provide system that can be installed in existing facilities and easily moved and maintained.

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Every warehouse is different.  Every warehouse has its unique set of challenges and getting orders out the door are thehighest priority.  After all, if orders don’t ship, there’s nothing to collect on!  This makes picking efficiencies and methods that much more important.  In this blog article, I am going to cover a variety of order picking methods that I’ve seen implemented and have  implemented personally with customers.  When describing these methods, I’m going to assume a paper-based warehouse (otherwise you’d be calling me to help you automate!).

One Order / One Picker

The most straight forward method of order picking is assigning single orders to single pickers (no I don’t mean they are not married J).  I think this is pretty simple and doesn’t need much explanation.  This type of picking is good if you have relatively few line items on your orders and relatively few orders per day.

Two-Step Picking (or Pick and Stage)

This method is a little more complicated and requires some organization.  The premise is that you hand the picker multiple orders and they “pile” up the products into a cart, not really caring
what order they belong to.  The order(s) are then delivered to a sortation area, where (naturally) a sorter is waiting to do nothing other than…. (wait for it), yes you guessed it… sort the pile of
picked products into their respective orders.  The thought here is that you can make the picker more efficient by combining orders.  However, a word of caution for those running paper-based  warehouses, you really need to have your best people in the sortation area.  One false move and Trader Joe’s chips end up on Costco’s pallet!  Can you say “charge-back”!

Pick and Pass

This sounds more like a basketball move than an order picking method, but rest assured NBA fans this is a valid strategy!  The Pick and Pass method assumes that you have divided your warehouse zones or areas.  Each picker is assigned to a zone and remains in those areas.  It works like this:

1. The order is delivered to Zone A and
   the picker pull the products belonging in his zone
2. The order is then “passed” to Zone B,
   where the next picker pulls the products belonging in his zone
3. The order is then passed to Zone C…
   rinse and repeat, you get the idea

The idea here is that you gain better efficiencies because the picker gets to know his area better than memorizing the whole warehouse AND the picker has to cover less area to get his portion of the orders pulled.

Wave Picking

Hold on dude, I’ve heard of surfing the internet, but what the heck is “Wave Picking”??  Is this some extreme sport of basketball mixed with surfing??  Sounds like fun, but not quite.  The concept here is to group several orders together and send the picker in one pass of the warehouse to pick multiple orders.  Efficiencies are gained because the picker spends less time walking back and forth.  This is a little harder to do with a paper-based warehouse, but not impossible.  If you are tracking inventory loosely by bin location, then you can put together some Excel spreadsheet or reports that group ocations on the picking tickets to help keep the picker organized.

A variation on the theme here is to Wave Pick to a carton.  In this “case”(shameless warehouse pun, sorry it’s late and I’m writing this on a plane!), the picker wave picks his orders directly into cartons.  This effectively picks and packs the order all in one step gaining maximum efficiencies.

Summing Up

There are a variety of options and methods that I haven’t covered, but these are the major ones.   The best solution is still to
implement a warehouse management system to help you organize your warehouse!

The automated storage and retrieval system with stacker cranes and carton-and-totes conveyor replaced a manual system of forklift trucks and employees on foot in two phases.

The second phase will double the size of the system, which occupies about 500,000 square feet.

From a single store launched in 1967, Fastenal (Nasdaq: FAST) has grown into the nation’s largest distributor of industrial fasteners, with more than 2,400 store locations across 18 regions of the country. The company has also grown by expanding the number of products it offers by 175,000 individual inventory pieces.

In order to handle this growth, the company installed the initial phase of a goods-to-the-person mini-load automated order picking system from TGW. The system comprised 12 mini-load cranes that deliver totes to ergonomic workstations where operators do order picking for 275 stores and replenish stock at 13 regional distribution centers around the country.

Fastenal will now be doubling the size of the AS/RS by adding 13 new mini-load cranes as well as carton and tote conveyor from TGW. The addition will double the capacity of the AS/RS to over 250,000 tote locations.

“With over 400,000 unique SKUs in our product line, being able to quickly fill orders in a high density storage environment is a key component of our overall supply chain strategy,” said Walter Tate, Fastenal’s manager of distribution development. “TGW’s mini-load Mustang AS/RS, combined with their carton and tote conveyor solution, will allow us to handle our growth in an efficient manner.”

For TGW, expanding the partnership with Fastenal is proving the growing value of high speed AS/RS in the US.

“The use of mini-load AS/RS technology is a growing market in the U.S. as many companies are including this technology to improve operations and reduce the cost of small parts handling,” said Larry Strayhorn, president of TGW Systems. “When companies like Fastenal realize the value of using AS/RS for high density storage and for exponentially reducing the number of times product is manually handled in the distribution environment, more and more companies will embrace AS/RS.”

Reducing product touches is important to Fastenal.

“It’s about applying automation where we can and trying to minimize product handling,” Tate said. “We touch the product when it arrives at the receiving dock and again when we pick it to ship it out the door. Every time you touch a product, there’s an opportunity for a mistake and it adds cost. By eliminating those touches, we’ve reduced the opportunity for error and reduced our operating costs.”

More at www.tgw-group.com.

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Introduction

For any company involved in the distribution of goods, the accuracy, efficiency and speed of its operation is crucial to ensure a high level of customer service and retaining key customer contracts.

When Cleland McIver began seeking new measures to streamline and improve their efficiency they contacted Bar Code Data Ltd as its solution provider.

The Business Challenge

Cleland McIver would lose a substantial amount a year from stock sent to numerous key customers. This was due to stock going missing, human errors with order picking i.e. miss picks, and oversubscribed orders.

The result meant the company being financially penalised for all incorrect orders, even for oversubscribed orders. Therefore Cleland McIver would lose stock, incur extra shipping costs and be fined for all incorrect orders.

The Solution

The previous working method was a paper based system where the employees would print off the order sheet and manually mark off what stock was picked.  Therefore it was difficult to track where the errors were made and also how to analysis ways of improvement.

Bar Code Data implemented a barcode data entry system using the Honeywell Dolphin 7600 terminals with a bespoke software application.  In addition software was written for their host system to allow complete integration between the new portable devices and the customers system.

The new barcode data entry system would flash red, highlighting any errors made at the picking stage and the employees would not be able to proceed until the error was rectified.  Also every order picked would be recorded for analysis purposes, thus showing any areas of improvement and making the whole system totally efficient.

The Benefits

“The speed and accuracy of order picking has improved beyond measure states Paul Adams.

It was imperative for new measures to streamline our distribution in order to improve our efficiency.  Bar Code Data’s barcode data entry solution gave us all of that along with significant financial savings.  The Return on Investment (ROI) has been such that we are rolling out the application into other key areas of our organisation and the new barcode data entry system paid for itself in only a matter of months. Bar Code Data have been totally professional and exceeded our expectations. I would not hesitate recommending them to anyone.” Paul Adams, Operations Manager

Honeywell Dolphin 7600 Terminal

Compact, lightweight and built for the worker who is constantly on the move, the Dolphin 7600 features the data collection and communication capabilities that keeps businesses connected to their employees, their customers and their supply chain – empowering them to work smarter.

• Microsoft® Windows® CE 5.0 standard platform for simple integration and intuitive operation
• Rugged, magnesium alloy internal chassis with component shock mounts – withstands drops from 1.5m to concrete
• Ideally suited to light-industrial applications in retail, transportation and logistics, field services, postal, route accounting, healthcare, and warehousing
• Integrated finger saddle that mirrors the natural curves of the hand

Company Profiles

Cleland McIver Ltd was established 20 years ago predominantly as a manufacture of readymade curtains, however they have now progressed in supplying a vast range of textile products.

For a number of years Cleland McIver has been importing direct merchandise in various textile products from China, Pakistan, Turkey and Bangladesh.

Bar Code Data have over 20 years experience in providing integrated solutions and partnering with the World’s leading Auto ID suppliers that includes Honeywell, Zebra and Motorola, Bar Code Data had the expertise to implement a system on time, within budget and supplying the best of breed equipment.

For more information on how a barcode data entry system can improve order picking contact Bar Code Data on 0161 330 0077 or email at sales@bcdata.co.uk or visit www.bcdata.co.uk.

The paper describes a dynamic variant of the traditional ABC storage policy. The variant is to be used in manual order picking warehouses where SKUs experience a rather unstable demand. Its objective is to reduce the order picking time. It mainly consists in shifting items between the storage areas A, B and C according to the way their daily number of order lines changes. A few case studies based on computer simulations have shown that this variant can yield interesting time savings if its parameters are chosen with care. One of those case studies is presented in this paper. Because of the pioneering nature of this variant, some ideas for further research are also sketched.

Keyword : warehousing, class based storage, order picking, abc analysis, heuristic

Sumber :
http://repository.petra.ac.id/12687/

Voice-picking—which equips employees with headsets and wireless computers—uses speech recognition and speech synthesis to allow for communication with the Warehouse Management System. The order picker is guided by computer-generated voice that identifies the items, tells the picker where to find them, and confirms product numbers to dramatically increase accuracy — and all without the need for paper! Printing and distributing picking lists and labels becomes obsolete, as well as keying in picking confirmations, picking amendments, and catch weights. In all: less waste, less cost, and a cleaner, safer working environment for your employees.
As well as improving efficiencies, voice-picking may a first step toward reshaping your warehouse to be more environmentally friendly. How would your warehouse—and employees—function without the cost, administrative demands, and waste of paper?

This shelving system is a two level unit used in a Midwestern Harley dealership.

A local government houses their electronic voting machines on Lyon Shelving. A much better solution than stacking equipment.

Row upon row of Lyon shelving holds industrial supplies for large distributor.

To get the most out of your shelving it’s important to have an efficient layout and design. In addition to selling high quality shelving Material Flow has a staff of shelving experts than can assist you in determining the best layout for your business.