IFOY MGZN 2022 EN

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STILL, Automated Warehouse Extension
at Hase Safety Gloves
Integrated Warehouse Solution
W
ith the help of STILL, Hase Safety Gloves has
expanded the system of its automated warehouse
and made the processes more efficient
- during ongoing operations. Although four to
five jobs were replaced by automating the system,
15 new jobs were created at the same time by expanding the
warehouse by 200 per cent.80 employees, 70 of them at the headquarters
in Jever, take care of incoming and outgoing work safety
clothing at Hase Safety Gloves, which mainly arrives by container
from the Far East. Of the 12,000 square metres of warehouse space
at Hase, around 7,000 square metres alone are now automated, and
of the total 13,000 storage spaces in the warehouse,
just under 7,000 spaces
can be attributed
to automation. A 10,000 square
metre photovoltaic system on the roof is also used
to charge the forklifts used in the warehouse. Speaking of forklifts:
Hase successfully operates according to the “ mixed operations“
principle: Forklifts and staff can meet each other, and the use of protective
fences has been deliberately dispensed with. When employees
place a filled pallet on a place in the staging lane after goods receipt,
this simultaneously means a transport order for a still unit – it
goes off to the warehouse or cross-docking directly to goods issue.
At Hase, there is automatic whole stock removal, but also manual
order picking. Until this happens, the pallet first goes through
a so-called contour check: a gate with a laser curtain that eliminates
tolerances of the pallet so that the automatic warehouse
does not store a “brake block“ – otherwise the system stops. If an
error is detected, the pallet is immediately forwarded to the “not
right” location and the problem is eliminated. Hase uses three automated
MX-X narrow-aisle stackers and six EXV-SF high-lift trucks
of the latest generation, all of which are equipped with Still‘s iGo
Systems automation kit. The EXVs pick up the sorted
palletised goods at the goods-in location
and take them to the transfer rack in the narrow-aisle
warehouse, where they are picked up
“Hase has certainly
achieved its goal to a
very high degree“
by one of the automated MX-X units and stored
in the assigned bin location. For retrieval, this
process happens in reverse order. Once the AGVs have
done their work, they automatically move to their waiting position.
A novelty for Hase: a changeover aisle in the middle of the system,
which, together with a spray wall, replaces the otherwise
necessary firewall, enables the forklifts to move simultaneously
from one racking aisle to another without having
to return to the beginning of the racking. In the manual area,
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