Case Introduction
This company is a leading enterprise in the global safety protection field with comprehensive advantages. Its products cover raw material yarns, hand protection products, and full-body specialized protection products. The business spans more than 50 countries and regions worldwide.
Project Challenge:
The production process of gloves requires real-time, comprehensive control, demanding a high level of automation. Manual handling can't flexibly cope with the fast-paced production rhythm. In addition, due to business growth, the existing storage space struggles to meet future demands. Under the traditional handling mode, the efficiency of warehousing is low, error rates are high, and it's challenging to trace back product information. Thus, the dilemma facing this company is how to ensure production efficiency, meet the requirements for efficient warehousing, maximize the use of storage space, increase storage density, and achieve digital transformation and upgrade.
Solution: Pallet Stacker MW-SL14 + VNA Truck MW-K16
Multi-Vehicle Collaboration
The site consists of 3 workshops and 1 warehouse, with nearly 5,000 storage locations. Four VNA trucks MW-K16 VNA and six pallet stackers MW-SL14 work together for operations. They handle the automated warehousing of raw materials and finished products, and precisely align with the production line materials. This warehouse can manage the tasks of over 500 pallets in and out daily. With the support of the RCS scheduling system, multiple vehicles collaborate efficiently, autonomously planning the optimal routes.
High-Position Storage
The VNA truck can lift up to 9,000mm, and the minimum aisle width required is only 1,650mm. This enables four-tier shelving and high-density three-dimensional access, effectively utilizing spatial resources, saving ground space, and enhancing the warehouse capacity of the factory.
Vehicle-Road Collaboration
Facing the complex situation where people, vehicles, goods, and equipment are integrated, the AGV forklift ensures operational safety through a triple-protection mechanism: safety sensor protection, control system protection, and the "Horizon" system protection. Among them, the "vehicle-road collaboration" feature of the this system can detect in advance any personnel intrusion or path interference, eliminating potential safety hazards.
Benefits:
Automated Handling
Multiway Robotics equipment supports 7x24h unmanned operations, significantly improving handling efficiency and reducing manual operation costs. The machines automatically respond when tasks arise, meeting various handling needs for different scenarios. When not in use, they return to their standby points to "sleep," ensuring minimal energy consumption.
Low Cost Deployment
By adopting industry-leading laser navigation technology, there's no need for environmental modifications. The equipment can independently recognize its surroundings, build maps, and boasts high positioning accuracy. Task paths are optimally planned, allowing for rapid deployment and substantially reducing marginal costs for customers.
Digital Management
With an integrated software and hardware delivery platform, factories achieve digital management. Warehouse product information and logistics data are available in real-time, increasing warehousing efficiency. The system also allows for remote management of factory equipment and real-time task monitoring.
Intelligent Production
The high-flexibility industry solutions realize an intelligent full-process logistics system, from raw material warehousing to finished product warehousing and from workshop production lines to the warehouse. This paves the way for businesses to establish a foundation for green, efficient production and an industry structure upgrade.