FORTNA develops automated storage solution

Much shorter courses, optimum performance, functional and scalable: with these objectives in mind, FORTNA and REUTER have actually collectively created a computerized stockroom option mirroring the altering needs of omnichannel circulation. This upgrade will certainly be applied in phases at the main website in Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen, Germany.

Established In 1986 in Niederkrüchten, North Rhine-Westphalia, as a standard craft company with simply one pupil, the firm swiftly became a speciality restroom and sanitaryware merchant. REUTER introduced its on-line shop back in 2004, confirming that, as currently, technology chances are acknowledged and utilized at a beginning. Numerous hundred thousand things from over 250 brand names are instantaneously offered in the reuter.de online shop. With a product varying from rubber washing machines to tubs, REUTER is currently among the biggest speciality and online merchants for shower rooms and lights in Europe.

“What establishes us apart is that we see modification as a chance for additional growth. Which is what drives us to make the right choices at the correct time,” claims Volker Titzkus, Head of Supply Chain Administration and Purchase at REUTER. “Among these choices was made around 10 years earlier, when we at first appointed FORTNA with the principle preparation for the centralisation of our procedures at the Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen website. Ever since, something has actually come to be clear: when it concerns our logistics growth, we believe in the experience of the group led by job supervisor Michael Geisinger. It is, besides, mostly our logistical procedures that are continuously being tested, because of our fast development, and they require to be regularly adjusted.”

With this existing job in partnership with FORTNA, REUTER is broadening ability for its on-line company to fulfill the ever-increasing needs of distribution rate and the consumer buying experience. The option was a brand-new principle style at a centralised place with best-fit automation. “After collecting all the essential information and specifying all the preparation criteria, we created an incorporated principle. This not just gives the adaptability and ability presently called for via optimized procedures and specifically picked automation procedures however can likewise sustain the firm’s future development. The heart of the logistics system is a totally automated high-bay stockroom (HBW) with goods-to-person workstations and automated led lorries (AGVs),” discusses Michael Geisinger, Remedy Engineer Elder Supervisor, FORTNA. In the last development phase, the automated pallet HBW will certainly have a capability of 17,000 pallet areas on 32,000 m ² of logistics area and will certainly carry out 420 dual cycles per hour with 12 stacker cranes in equally as lots of aisles. The forklifts presently being used in the pre-zone will certainly be changed by AGVs, which will certainly guarantee a smooth user interface in between storage space, access and goods-to-person selecting. In the future, REUTER will certainly have the ability to fulfill raising need for ability or tons variations via the scalable use extra AGVs. As Michael Geisinger claims, “We decided for a versatile AGV option along with REUTER at a beginning, to ensure that the very first trial run with AGVs were efficiently performed years earlier and progressively moved to internal transport. To make it possible for step-by-step automation, pick-up factors of the pallet conveyor innovation were developed with forklift and AGV procedure in mind.”

AGVs are currently being utilized efficiently in the self-pick-up location of the REUTER logistics centre. “Completely computerized lorries refine the ever-increasing variety of orders from clients that get their products from us on website after buying online. Everything occurs successfully, swiftly and with the common premium quality,” claims Volker Titzkus with complete satisfaction. “It’s no more feasible to do this by hand because of the dimension we have actually currently come to be. The AGVs are amazing for our clients. They make our specialist solution noticeable and are currently a vital part of the buying experience.”

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