Reference Richter + Frenzel
AutoStore® small parts warehouse with connecting components for Richter + Frenzel in Reichertshofen
Richter + Frenzel has been the specialist for sanitary and building technology for over 125 years. More than 4,200 employees at 180 locations in Germany provide competent advice and planning with products from over 1,800 manufacturers. At the location in Reichertshofen, a new central logistics centre was built, from which R+F supplies branches and the trade nationwide. The central element in this new building is a fully automated warehouse solution for the storage and order picking of small parts. With its intralogistics concept, which includes an AutoStore® small parts warehouse with connected conveyor technology for order picking and palletising, HÖRMANN Logistik impressed and received the order to realise the system.
Concept
The new AutoStore® warehouse was integrated into a new building. In order to match incoming and outgoing goods or order picking to the flow of goods, the respective workstations were arranged on opposite sides of the AutoStore® system.
For the customised design of the AutoStore system for Richter + Frenzel, Hörmann Logistik carried out several system simulations with original data in real time during the planning phase. This also resulted in the recommendation for batch formation at goods issue/picking. The customer requirements, together with the simulation results, led to a system configuration with 45 robots, 50,000 totes on 16 levels and corresponding workstation modules.
The AutoStore® system consists of an aluminium grid system covered on all sides. In the grid system, stacks of 16 bins each stand directly on the hall floor. The rail system (grid) is mounted above the container stacks, on which the battery-operated, autonomous robots move. The robots cooperatively pick up containers, sort them and are responsible for the supply and disposal of the workstation modules.
The maximum total weight of the 649 mm x 449 mm x 330 mm (L x W x H) containers is 35 kg with a net payload of around 30 kg. To safeguard the maximum weight, an overweight check is carried out at the ports. In order to fill the containers in a quantity-optimised manner, Hörmann Logistik has implemented a self-learning system for weight and volume data. For each subdivision in the container (1/4, 1/2 or 1/1 container), only the same articles with the same properties may be stored.
The Hörmann Logistik warehouse management system HiLIS AS, which was specially developed by Hörmann Logistik for the AutoStore® systems, takes over the higher-level management of the system including all interfaces to the ERP system. The customer's picking and palletising robots also communicate with HiLIS AS via interface. All system data and functions can be called up clearly at any time via the HiLIS AS visualisation.
The new AutoStore® intralogistics solution at Richter + Frenzel went into operation in June 2019.