Logistics center with shuttle warehouses and robotics

Initial situation:

DEHN is a leading, internationally active family-owned electrical engineering company based in Neumarkt. The company offers solutions and services in the fields of lightning protection, surge protection and occupational safety.

With the construction of the new logistics and production site in 2014, DEHN laid the foundation for further growth and internationalization. With the expansion in 2023, around 35,000 m2 of floor space will now be used.

Delivery service and logistics processes are to be made transparent and future-proof with a modern warehouse management system.

Solution:

At the heart of the concept are innovative shuttle warehouses for shipping and production supply.
Unitechnik also integrated a classic high-bay warehouse, which is used not only for the automated replenishment of the small parts warehouse but also for the storage of large containers.

High-performance conveyor technology connects the warehouses and workstations in the logistics area. This ensures effective processes in conjunction with UniWare warehouse management systems.

The gantry robot depalletizes incoming goods pallets with containers for storage in the shuttle warehouse. At the same time, the containers are picked fully automatically onto floor rollers.

Autonomous mobile robots (AMR) load and unload the robot cell. The supermarket area serves as a buffer for the picked production orders (containers on floor rollers) for timely retrieval by production. The AMRs also carry out these transport orders.

Technology and key figures:

• UniWare warehouse management system (WMS) with integrated modules for material flow control system (MFS) and system visualization (VISU)
• Shuttle warehouse-1 with 5 aisles, 35 levels, 20 vehicles, 36,000 storage locations (600x400), combined shuttle and container lifter, 800 DS/hour
• Shuttle warehouse-2 with 2 aisles, 42 levels, 28 vehicles, 43,000 storage locations (600x400), storage 600x400 3-deep lengthwise to 300x200 5-deep lengthwise, 590 DS/hr
• Pallet high-bay warehouse with 4 aisles and 8,400 storage locations
• Container and pallet conveyor technology from goods receipt to goods issue with connection to the workstations
• Multifunctional gantry robot for de-/palletizing, floor roller storage and loading
• AMR fleet for floor rollers and Euro pallets
• Interfaces to SAP ERP and MES HYDRA