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Enterprise Dynamics® - Logistics
The Advanced ASRS – seen as a module.
Planning of automated high rack storage areas.
The process of planning and operating automated warehouses is characterized by permanently alternating operating requirements. Varied layouts and strategies should already be considered and weighed in the storage planning stages. Foreseeable scenarios are implicated into design and strategies in order to hedge the investment against changing business conditions. Declining the life cycle of products enhance the necessity to reorganize existing warehouse structures during the useful life.
Simulation is an established technology to verify different storage conceptions, without putting them into reality immediately. Autonomous from day-to-day business it is possible to grow resolutions with a high level of maturity - long before the day of the ground-breaking ceremony. Increasing frequency of corporate planning make high demands on flexibility, efficiency and user friendliness of the used planning software.
Modular design encourages rapid modelling
With the Advanced ASRS atom Enterprise Dynamics® - Logistics provides a high rack storage module that fits excellent to the needs of warehouse-planners.
Warehouse lanes (rack aisles) made up of an inbound position, a storage and retrieval machine, the racks themselves and the outbound position are the basis for the modelling of complex warehouse structures. All parameters of one lane are centrally provided to the user in one graphical user interface (GUI). Structured arrangement of all edit fields provides all parameters of a functional group at a glance to the user, e.g. the motion parameters of the storage and retrieval machine.
In the majority of cases storage planning means layout planning
Many times layout and simulation are concurrent operations. For the modelling process it is of vital importance to adapt layout changes without delay. The Advanced ASRS atom meets those demands. Changes of the warehouse capacity are simply a click with the mouse. Even it is possible to disable single bin locations (e.g. due to constructional restrictions, like pillars or cable channels). Furthermore massive modifications (e.g. location or rotation) of whole rack aisles are applicable via the central GUI.
The location of inbound and outbound position related to the racks is of particular importance to realize brief routes of transport for the rack feeder. A change of a hand-over point means just a modification of parameters to the user. On this account structural modifications of existing models can be realized at any times.
Layout planning is only half the truth
Key task of the simulation based warehouse planning and operating process is the development and verification of efficient operation strategies and rules. Related to the storage and retrieval machine it is necessary to define the priorities between transfers to stock and removals from stock. The Advanced ASRS atom provides several predefined common strategies (e.g. roll in and out alternately), but it is also possible to assign the decision to a higher-level or external software such as an ERP or a warehouse management system (e.g. roll out on call).
Apart from that the Advanced ASRS atom provides a bin location management system. Users can lean on many predefined frequently used operation strategies to implement match code search functions to find empty or unreserved bin locations in the racks. Optional it is again feasible to hand the bin location search over to a higher-level controller in order to reduce the Advanced ASRS to the level of an executive hardware.
Planning of automated high rack storage areas with the Advanced ASRS - modular, efficient and user friendly. |
