Market benefits through an awareness of quality
Order-related, customised production and goods provision calls for a continuous, intelligent and flexible logistics system that caters for the investor's requirements in terms of cost efficiency and return with its individual design. A challenge, especially for logistics – innovative automation solutions from Westfalia are:
- cost-efficient, due to high transparency and acceleration of order processes
- flexible, as units are designed according to branch-specific conditions
- improved quality, due to compliance of logistical system requirements with statutory provisions
Practical example: Richard Hengstenberg GmbH & Co. KG – Bad Friedrichshall
The traditional company of Hengstenberg produces a wide range of canned vegetables at 3 sites. Quality assurance as part of the continuous improvement process encompassing all areas of the company: that is the corporate philosophy of this tinned goods manufacturer. Westfalia was asked to come up with a new warehousing concept for the Friedrichshall site.
Double Satellite®: Twice the speed
The existing decentralised warehouses were to be superseded by a new storage facility directly linked to production by materials conveying equipment. Westfalia designed a high-density Satellite® storage system featuring two different building levels to comply with the regulations. The higher of these two warehouse levels is equipped with two storage and retrieval vehicles running on a rail. They were provided with double chain Satellites®, which each simultaneously convey two pallets one after the other, so significantly boosting the storage and retrieval capacity more...
The Westfalia system portfolio for tinned goods manufacturers:
- Automated pallet logistics
- Automated container logistics
- Order picking systems
- Batch tracing systems
- Truck guidance systems
- Inventory management systems