With retailers streamlining their supply chains in recent years, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), food and beverage manufacturers increasingly need to carry higher volumes of stock to meet demanding service levels.
Optimising storage space efficiency has become a significant challenge for many, and warehouse equipment and automation manufacturer Dematic has developed a new, pallet automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) specifically to assist FMCG and food and beverage manufacturers handling high volumes of palletised stock.
The fully integrated RapidStore Pallet ASRS is claimed to provide fast, safe, cost-efficient pallet handling.
The RapidStore crane is claimed to provide significantly faster cycle times than manually operated forklifts and, with the ability to operate 24/7 with minimal downtime, it to reduce labour and operating costs. Compared to conventional storage systems and materials handling equipment, this pallet ASRS solution also requires a much smaller building footprint to house the same number of pallets, substantially reducing associated land, building and/or leasing costs.
Suitable for bulk reserve storage in fast-moving pallet handling operations, the Pallet ASRS solution can be tailored to the user's precise storage and handling requirements.
With a lightweight single mast and fast operating speeds of up to 4 m/second, RapidStore provides safe and efficient high-speed handling of pallets weighing up to 1,200kg to 30m high, in aisles only 200mm wider than the load.
The storage system's Colby racking and RapidStore cranes are professionally integrated to ensure safe, reliable, error-free operation. Dematic also offers a range of pallet in-feed and out-feed stations to suit user requirements. From low-cost, fixed-position pick-up and deposit (P&D) stations through to integrated pallet conveyors, transfer cars and monorail systems, Dematic says it is able to provide a range of high performance solutions to transfer goods in and out of the pallet ASRS, seamlessly integrating receiving, manufacturing, quality control, put-away, palletising and despatch.
