Focus on energy efficiency and digitalization

The energy crisis in the food industry is becoming noticeable due to rising costs and a shortage of resources. At the trade fair, Westfalia will be presenting efficient and sustainable intralogistics solutions that help to reduce energy consumption and enable resource-saving warehouse operations. The company's own fully integrated Warehouse Execution System Savanna.NET^®, which intelligently controls the warehouse and conveyor technology, is designed to increase efficiency along the entire value chain. This allows products to be transported faster and more efficiently, as the software pays close attention to minimizing movements within the warehouse and keeping transport routes short..

Flexibility for increasing product diversity

Westfalia is used to recording customer-specific requirements and framework conditions in detail and deriving the appropriate concept solutions from them. The increasing variety of products in the food and beverage industry in particular requires flexible and efficient storage concepts. This is why every storage solution from Westfalia is also individually dependent on the article structure, as this determines the choice of load handling device and storage type. The telescopic and Satellite® storage system from Westfalia are two different approaches that enable food manufacturers to manage their storage and transportation tasks optimally and thus successfully meet the challenges of increasing product diversity.

Automation as the answer to the shortage of skilled workers

As a specialist for automated normal temperature, refrigerated and deep-freeze warehouses of all sizes - from a maturing warehouse for Tönnies with 2,500 storage locations to Lineage Harnes 2 with 60,664 storage locations - Westfalia knows the specific requirements of fresh and deep-freeze logistics inside out. In the deep-freeze sector, for example, it is the tough working conditions at temperatures as low as -35° C that make the search for qualified personnel a real challenge.
Westfalia offers intelligent and automated solutions to meet these requirements. Goods-to-person systems, fully automated layer picking and innovative maintenance lifts on the storage and retrieval machines are just a few examples of approaches that not only increase efficiency but also relieve the strain on staff in extreme working environments.

From March 19 to 22, visitors to Anuga FoodTec in Cologne will have the opportunity to talk to Westfalia's intralogistics experts at Stand B018 (Hall 7.1).