Automated high-bay warehouse for supply and disposal of production at E. Hawle Armaturenwerke in Austria

A new logistics warehouse has been built at the E. Hawle Armaturenwerke GmbH production site in Frankenmarkt, Upper Austria, in order to reduce the rented external warehouses as far as possible. The realization of the 5-aisle high-bay warehouse as well as the connecting conveyor technology has been taken over by HÖRMANN Intralogistics as general contractor. IGZ, the SAP engineers from Falkenberg in Bavaria, implemented the entire logistics processes in SAP EWM with direct control of the warehouse technology by SAP MFS.

Concept

In the new high-bay warehouse, raw and semi-finished parts are temporarily stored for production or for staging in shipping. The production connection is made directly from production via a new, double-level conveyor system for pallets. In addition, a loading and unloading station is planned in the outer wall of the new logistics hall, which can be reached from the yard with forklifts and is approached dynamically by SAP EWM in exceptional situations to ensure production supply at all times.

The 5-aisle high-bay warehouse is equipped with five aisle-bound storage and retrieval machines (SRMs). These have telescopic forks for double-deep storage. Three-bay side-by-side storage is provided per rack compartment. The storage and retrieval stacks of the high-bay warehouse are connected to a loop conveyor line that extends into the logistics hall to pick up or drop off goods. All storage and retrieval machines are equipped with a compartment fine positioning system that detects both the front and rear z-positions.

Goods receiving and shipping for different load carriers

At goods receiving, normal load units are fed onto three conveyor sections with weight and contour control. Grid boxes are only fed onto the middle conveyor section. There, the loading station is fully automatically equipped with a wooden lower pallet onto which the wire mesh box is placed

The empty pallets required for this are held in stacks at a buffer station and transported individually towards the set-up station as required.

Highlights

• 5-aisle high-bay warehouse 70 x 40 x 29 m (L x W x H)
• 5 aisle-bound stacker cranes in single-mast design with telescopic forks for double-deep storage
• 32 pallet insertions and removals per hour per stacker crane
• Connecting pallet conveyor system
• Fire protection and high-speed gates
• Control technology with direct connection to SAP EWM / MFS
• Plant visualization