At present, due to the increasing demand for warehouse storage capacity, the requirements for picking, transportation, and inbound and outbound frequency are also increasing. Therefore, in the field of logistics warehousing, automation and intelligent control technology have been rapidly developed, and the application of shelf shuttle vehicles in the field of automatic warehouses is becoming more and more widespread. At present, in automated warehouses where there are few varieties and large quantities stored in the form of pallets, the initial use is in the form of shuttle boards for storage. The shuttle boards transport the goods to the entrance of the cargo lane, and then the goods are transported away by forklifts. Subsequently, an automated warehouse form was developed with the core of the mother and child shuttle cars and shuttle car elevators, greatly improving the automation level of goods storage. The new type of warehousing equipment developed today, the four-way shuttle, has good space utilization, strong adaptability to the environment and architecture, excellent high flexibility performance, and has edge line connection and sorting functions. The delivery and deployment costs are lower than those of stackers, and it has a wide range of application prospects in warehousing.
The four-way shuttle is divided into box type four-way shuttle and pallet four-way shuttle according to the different unit types it processes. Among them, compared with ordinary three-dimensional warehouses, the intelligent three-dimensional warehouse using pallet four-way shuttle cars can improve the land and space utilization rate by about 20% -100%, while improving operational efficiency by 20%, reducing operating energy consumption by 30%, and saving unit investment costs by about 10%. With advantages such as high storage density and high flexibility, tray four-way shuttle cars are being introduced by more and more intelligent manufacturing factories.
Intelligent warehousing closely integrated with production lines
Entering the Xingtai production base in Hebei, where Hebei Woke Metal Products Co., Ltd. is located, rows of towering storage shelves and automated three-dimensional warehouses stand tall in the factory building. These devices will be gradually sent to logistics warehouses and smart factories around the world, creating a professional and intelligent comprehensive warehousing and logistics system.
As a one-stop integrated warehousing and logistics service provider specializing in the research and development, design, manufacturing, and sales of advanced warehousing and logistics system equipment such as automated three-dimensional warehouses and shelves, Hebei Woke (independent brand: Hegerls) has successfully constructed more than 100 three-dimensional warehouses in different regions both domestically and internationally. Since entering the stage of intelligent automated warehousing, warehousing logistics is no longer limited to the intelligence of single links such as handling, storage, transportation, and sorting. Instead, it realizes the full process intelligence based on the large-scale application of intelligent equipment such as stackers, sorting machines, AGVs, as well as system software such as RCS, WMS, and WCS. At present, Hebei Woke integrates advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data to closely connect intelligent warehousing with production lines in the future, combining production and warehousing logistics, providing solutions for “lighthouse factories” and “black light factories”, and achieving efficient improvement in operational efficiency.
Among the main suppliers of pallet four-way shuttle systems, shelf enterprises occupy an important position. Hebei Woke, as a domestic shelf supplier, started early in this field and continues to deepen its cultivation. The intelligent tray four-way shuttle vehicle dense storage system developed and produced by Hebei Woke in recent years is a flexible intelligent warehousing solution, which has advantages such as high efficiency and density, intelligent collaboration, flexible expansion, safety and stability, high cost-effectiveness, and low energy consumption, changing the traditional vertical inventory storage integration mode. Based on the actual needs of customers and the existing big data information platform, by adding hardware facilities and deepening information scheduling, warehouse management informatization, automation, standardization, visualization, and intelligence can be achieved, providing physical enterprises with automated and intelligent warehousing solutions with better return on investment (ROI).
The HEGERLS intelligent tray four-way shuttle is the core equipment of the system, which is used in conjunction with elevators and conveying equipment to form various dense storage system solutions and improve warehouse utilization. The main technical indicators include a maximum no-load speed of 1.5m/s and a maximum full load speed of 1.2m/s, with a positioning accuracy of ± 3mm. The system also includes high-precision shelves, WCS and WMS systems, and uses dynamic simulation human-machine interaction interface to monitor the operation of equipment, monitor feedback in real time, and achieve visual management.
In terms of downstream applications, the intelligent tray four-way shuttle has basically achieved full scene application coverage, and has achieved key coverage in some industries. Previously, the HEGERLS intelligent tray four-way shuttle system provided a 16m high intelligent dense storage solution for a certain technology enterprise. Compared to traditional ground storage warehouses, the storage capacity of the HEGERLS four-way vehicle dense storage increased by 500%, the operation and maintenance efficiency increased by 50%, the operation and maintenance costs decreased by 40%, and the implementation cycle was shortened by 30%.
It can be predicted that as top AI players steadily expand their technological reach to the pain points of the industry, it is not difficult to achieve a qualitative leap in the efficiency of various industries and promote the rapid development of the digital economy. In the future, Hebei Woke will continue to increase research and development investment, continuously break through higher technological barriers, actively promote the landing and application of new technologies, provide strong technical support for the sustainable development of major enterprises, and enable the integration of future logistics systems to be freely combined and selected like a menu, achieving faster delivery!
Post time: Feb-28-2024