State-of-the-art fresh food logistics meets Hundertwasser design
Refrigerated high-bay warehouse Andechser Molkerei
When fresh produce logistics meets innovative architecture: at Andechser Molkerei Scheitz GmbH, HÖRMANN Intralogistics has implemented a highly dynamic cold storage system that is not only functionally impressive, but also visually stunning. The 2-aisle high-bay warehouse in characteristic Hundertwasser architecture combines state-of-the-art automation technology with sustainable refrigerated storage for 3,900 pallet spaces.
The concept
Dairy products require perfect storage conditions and absolute adherence to deadlines. For Andechs, we developed a complete solution that combines maximum dynamics with precise MHD management. The centerpiece is a double-deep high-bay warehouse in silo design, supplemented by intelligent picking areas and sequenced dispatch provision. We seamlessly integrated all operational areas - from production to shipping.
Objectives and challenges of the project:
- Optimal storage of temperature-sensitive dairy products at a constant 4°C - Maximum dynamics for fast goods turnover and short best-before-date cycles
- Efficient space utilization through double-deep storage on a compact footprint
- Automated picking with maximum picking accuracy
- Complete system integration of all production and logistics areas
- Architectural integration into the unmistakable company design
The solution in detail
The automated cold storage system is based on a 2-aisle high-bay warehouse measuring 81 x 15 x 18 m. Two storage and retrieval machines in a two-mast design, each equipped with telescopic double forks, ensure a storage and retrieval capacity of 96 pallets per hour.
The double-deep storage maximizes the capacity to 3,900 pallet spaces. An automated picking area for 74 main items is fed directly from the high-bay warehouse, while a manual area covers 227 additional items. Pick-by-voice technology ensures error-free picking.
The HiLIS Warehouse Management System orchestrates all processes and ensures optimum MHD rotation. Automatic conveyor and distribution systems connect production, goods receipt, pallet inspection station, picking and dispatch provision to create a continuous material flow.
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About the customer:
Andechser Molkerei Scheitz GmbH was founded in 1908 and is now Germany's largest organic dairy under the management of Barbara Scheitz. Based in Andechs-Erling near Munich, the traditional family business exclusively processes organic milk from more than 630 farmers from controlled organic animal husbandry. As a pioneer of the organic movement, Andechser develops and produces high-quality dairy products such as yogurt, cheese, quark and UHT milk. The company stands for regional added value, sustainable agriculture and the highest quality standards for organic food.
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The world's leading manufacturer of machines for plastics and rubber processing has equipped its new production plant in Parsdorf near Munich with a state-of-the-art storage system. HÖRMANN Intralogistics implemented an end-to-end automation solution that efficiently manages both small parts and pallets. The project comprises 40,000 storage locations and shows how intelligent intralogistics successfully combines growth and efficiency.
The concept
HÖRMANN Intralogistics worked with an SAP/EWM partner to develop an integrated intralogistics solution to restructure the entire material flow at the new KraussMaffei plant in Parsdorf. The concept combines automated warehouse and conveyor technology with intelligent warehouse management to create an end-to-end system.
Objectives and challenges of the project:
Primary objective:
- Efficient organization of incoming and outgoing goods to meet the growing demand in the plastics and rubber processing sector
Central challenges:
- Complex project implementation during the pandemic years with a difficult supply chain situation
- Integration of different warehouse types for different product categories
- Seamless connection to existing SAP system landscape
- Optimization of picking processes for large and small parts
The solution in detail
Two-tier warehouse strategy The system combines a small parts warehouse for precise picking with a pallet warehouse for large-volume goods. Both areas are networked with each other using intelligent conveyor technology from KLATT.
Control and integration The HiLIS control technology with system visualization orchestrates all material flows. Seamless SAP/EWM integration enables consistent goods tracking and optimum inventory management.
Flexible workstations Combined picking stations process both large and small parts efficiently. A tower storage system for sequencing supports order-related compilation and reduces throughput times.
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About the customer:
KraussMaffei Technologies is the world's leading manufacturer of machines and systems for plastics and rubber processing. As a "Pioneering Plastics" company, the company develops innovative solutions for the growing requirements of the industry and has established its new plant in Parsdorf near Munich as a modern production site.
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Intralogistics for chilled food
HÖRMANN: AutoStore® and multi-order picking for cheese specialties
HÖRMANN Intralogistics implemented an AutoStore® system with multi-order picking for Heiderbeck GmbH in an existing refrigerated warehouse. The Bavarian sales company for cheese specialties uses the system for efficient picking of its high-quality products.
The concept
Heiderbeck GmbH needed an intralogistics solution that would meet the special requirements of chilled cheese specialties. HÖRMANN Intralogistics developed a customized AutoStore® system that was integrated into an existing refrigerated warehouse. At its heart is a two-stage single-double grid with multi-order picking and food-compliant container cleaning. The picked products are seamlessly forwarded to palletizing via connected conveyor technology.
Objectives and challenges of the project:
- Temperature consistency: Continuous cooling of the sensitive specialty cheeses throughout storage
- Increased efficiency: Optimizing picking performance through multi-order picking processes
- Hygiene requirements: Food-compliant container cleaning in accordance with legal requirements
- Space optimization: Maximum storage capacity in the existing hall space
- Process integration: Seamless connection to downstream packaging and shipping processes
- Scalability: Option to expand the system as required
The solution in detail
The AutoStore® system with 51 Red Line robots operates on a single double grid for 15,700 bin locations. At five multi-order picking ports, employees pick several customer orders in parallel using put-to-light technology and stationary barcode scanners.
Nine carousel ports and three conveyor ports enable flexible storage and retrieval. Two transfer cells ensure food-compliant container cleaning. The HiLIS AS Warehouse Management System controls all processes and is directly connected to the customer HOST.
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About the customer:
Heiderbeck GmbH, based in Olching, Bavaria, is an established distribution company for high-quality cheese specialties and chilled delicatessen products. The company successfully supplies the German market with selected delicatessen products and relies on the highest quality standards for the storage and distribution of its temperature-sensitive product range.
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Revolutionary complete solution from a single source
Turnkey solutions for the corrugated board industry
The corrugated board industry is facing new challenges: increasing demand, complex system integration and the pressure for maximum efficiency. HÖRMANN Intralogistics and Van den Bos Corrugated Machinery have the answer: the industry's first turnkey solution that seamlessly connects production and logistics.
Sales Manager HBW Corrugated Board, Paper & Timber / Furniture Industry
Anton Goßner
The concept: innovation through strategic partnership
For the first time, corrugated board manufacturers can obtain their complete intralogistics from a single source. Our strategic partnership with Van den Bos CM combines decades of expertise in intralogistics with specialized know-how in Dutch corrugated board machine technology. The result: an end-to-end system without interface problems that covers everything from production to shipping.
The solution in detail: three core components perfectly coordinated
1. Modern high-bay warehouse with integrated shipping areas
- Two-aisle to five-aisle silo design depending on requirements
- Maximum storage capacity with minimum space requirement
- Special RBG travel curves for damage-free corrugated board storage
2. Conveyor technology that protects transported goods
- Plastic belt conveyor systems especially for paper products
- Gentle transfer stitches for production integration
- Infeed and outfeed stitches with high throughput
3. Intelligent warehouse management system HiLIS
- Fully vertically integrated from ERP to PLC level
- Centralized control of all warehouse processes and conveyor technology
- Performant output especially for the corrugated board industry
- Real-time material flow management and system visualization
Dunapack Straßwalchen: General contractor order for turnkey two-aisle high-bay warehouse in silo design
Automation for the market leader: Dunapack Packaging, part of the Austrian Prinzhorn Group and market leader in Central and Eastern Europe with over 6,000 employees, relies on HÖRMANN expertise. The company, which has an annual sales volume of around 3 billion square meters, is expanding its production and logistics infrastructure at its Straßwalchen site with a state-of-the-art automated format goods warehouse.
Facts
- General contractor order for turnkey two-aisle high-bay warehouse in silo design
- Two powerful two-mast stacker cranes with optimized driving dynamics
- Incoming goods performance: 40 load units/h, outgoing goods capacity: 65 load units/h
- Special conveyor technology for corrugated board formats with wide plastic modular belts
- Shelf sprinkler systems for optimum fire protection
- HiLIS Warehouse Control System for warehouse management and material flow control
- Complete HiLIS control technology and system visualization
- Shelf steel construction and roof and wall cladding of the warehouse
- Storage of corrugated cardboard stacks up to 3.000 kg without strapping
- RBG-specific travel curves to reduce vibrations for gentle transportation
- Completion and commissioning planned for 2025
Palm Gruppe Wellpappe Alzenau:
Finished goods and intermediate goods high-bay warehouse
New building with innovative double warehouse concept:
The Palm Group, one of the leading European manufacturers in the paper and packaging industry with 5 paper mills and 29 corrugated cardboard plants, is implementing a pioneering logistics concept in Alzenau. The new plant relies on state-of-the-art technologies and combines an intermediate goods and finished goods warehouse into a continuous material flow system for the first time.
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Our partner: Van den Bos CM
Specialist in machinery for the corrugated cardboard industry
Van den Bos Corrugated Machinery (CM) is an authentic and innovative family business from Amelo, NL with a passion for the trade. Our partner supplies stand-alone systems, complete solutions or customized solutions in the field of (corrugated) cardboard processing and logistics. They mainly deal with converting machines, robot palletizers and transport systems. These can be integrated into the existing system. Intelligent and intuitive software with strong visualization is the common thread here.
Corrugated board intralogistics with fewer interfaces
Are you a paper and corrugated cardboard producer looking to expand or do you provide advice as a logistics planner in this sector? Please contact us without obligation and we will analyze your material flow and specifications for an initial target price.
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The man-machine dream team
Is the shortage of skilled workers slowing down your warehouse? Almost half of all German warehouse companies are already struggling with this problem. While qualified employees are hard to find, customer requirements are constantly increasing. Human-centric automation offers the solution: relieve your team in a targeted manner where monotonous activities and physical strain dominate.
Human-centric automation focuses on people and uses automation to provide targeted relief. Instead of replacing employees, this approach frees them from repetitive tasks and allows them to focus on value-adding activities. Robots precisely take over the monotonous work, while humans concentrate on qualified tasks.
In our white paper, you can find out about the enormous relief that results from the use of "robot colleagues" and the costs that can be expected.
Für wen ist Voll-Automatisierung ein Thema?
Human-Centric Automation funktioniert besonders gut, wenn:
- Monotone Kommissionierabläufe mit hohem Laufanteil täglich wiederkehren
- Ihre Schichten nicht vollständig besetzt sind oder die Fluktuation steigt
- Fehlerquoten bei sensiblen Artikeln ein Risiko darstellen
- Spitzenzeiten regelmäßig zu Engpässen führen
- Pick-Performance und Liefertreue unter Personalknappheit leiden
- Ihre Teams sich qualifizierteren Aufgaben widmen sollen
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Das bringt Ihnen Human-Centric Automation
Schnelle Erfolge – mit realistischen Zahlen aus der Praxis:
- Kostenersparnis 55% weniger Kosten pro Pick gegenüber manueller Kommissionierung – konkret: 0,031€ (Roboter) statt 0,075€ (manuell)
- Leistung & Planbarkeit Der Roboter arbeitet mit konstant 630 Picks/h – unabhängig von Tagesform oder Personalausfall
- Qualität Fehlerquoten sinken deutlich, besonders bei sensiblen oder schweren Artikeln
- ROI in 12–18 Monaten Bereits ab ca. 1,5 Schichten amortisiert sich das System nach unseren Erfahrungen
Mitarbeitendenzufriedenheit Ihre Teams wechseln von Monotonie zu qualifizierteren Aufgaben – Fluktuation und Krankenstände sinken Skalierbarkeit Das Einstiegs-Setup (AutoStore + Pick-by-Robot) ist flexibel erweiterbar, ohne Betrieb zu unterbrechen
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The man-machine dream team
Skills shortage in the warehouse: automation is the solution
The topics & tools:
- How Human-Centric Automation to keep your warehouse stable
despite a shortage of skilled workers - Skilled worker shortage in the warehouse: Automation is the solution
- 5 Key Takeaways
- Relieving relief where it counts: Typical pain points in warehouse operations
- The pragmatic start: automate what really pays off
- From bottleneck to implementation: Now automation is getting concrete
- Practical example 1 - From everyday warehouse work to automated order picking
- Example 2 - Automated KLT picking at Siemens in Rastatt
- Outlook: The course for the future is being set today
