Promotion Highest storage capacity and exibility with the OSR Shuttle™ Flexible shuttle solutions for industry Würth and KNAPP share a long-term partnership and have jointly implemented nume rous projects around the globe in the past years. At Würth Industrie Service GmbH & Co KG, KNAPP also demonstrated their solution competence for applications in industry. 10 JUNE 2016 © KNAPP AG A highly fl exible OSR Shuttle™ system is perfectly in tune with the customer’s needs. The free-moving Open Shuttles are also on the job. They handle transport orders with complete fl exibility and autonomy. Performance and fl exibility were paramount to the solution. Würth Industrie Service GmbH & Co. KG in Bad Mergentheim supplies industrial customers with modular logistics and procurement solutions for connection and fastening elements. The goods are delivered in smallload carriers, used by the end customer for stocking fl ow racks in assembly line production. This Kanban principle sometimes makes it necessary to transport the goods in containers as bulk material, which requires extremely precise controls. The weight of most of the goods in the assortment poses a particular challenge, where trays with loads weighing up to 50kg need to be transported. Powerful system for industrial applications KNAPP constructed an advanced OSR Shuttle™ to deal with the special demands of this sector. The highly dynamic system offers the highest storage capacity as well as fl exibility, and fulfi ls all the requirements for an automated storage system: storage, consolidation, sequencing, dispatch buffering and picking. A large number of different containers, trays, cartons and carrier units can be handled. These are conveyed through the warehouse on KNAPP‘s high-performance conveyor system Streamline. In order to increase the performance of the existing warehouse, the OSR Shuttle™ system was expanded for a second time and completed in 2015. With the fi nal expansion stage Würth has a total of 151.400 storage locations, which are managed by 240 shuttles. Ergonomics meets effi ciency Particular attention was given to the processing of heavy goods, to protect employees; therefore 20 multifunctional Pick-it-Easy work stations were integrated into the solution. The 12 work stations of the fi rst phase were expanded with 8 additional work stations, which were put into operation in 2015. The work stations are identical, but have 5 different functions to fulfi l: picking, checking, emptying and merging as well as tasks for incoming and outgoing goods. The ergonomic design of the work stations drastically reduces strenuous tasks such as lifting, bending and reaching. Flexible transport with Open Shuttles Three Open Shuttles have been on the job at Bad Mergentheim since the second expansion. The driverless warehouse vehicles autonomously transport trays with articles from the goods-in area to an infeed point of the conveyor system.This is a great help for employees working at the goods-in bay, because they no longer need to manually transfer the containers to the conveyor system. The Open Shuttles independently plan their routes and avoid obstacles. In the goods-in area the paths for forklift trucks and employees must remain free, and therefore the Open Shuttles are an optimal alternative to a static conveyor system. Ergonomic picking at the multifunctional Pick-it-Easy work stations QUERIES & CONTACT KNAPP AG 8075 Hart bei Graz • Günter-Knapp-Straße 5-7 Phone: +43/5/04952-0 sales@knapp.com www.knapp.com
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