Reference SportOkay
AutoStore® small parts warehouse for SportOkay.com in Innsbruck
The e-commerce company Sport Okay GmbH, as a specialist for alpine clothing and sports equipment, offers more than 200 top brands in its online store www.sportokay.com. Unique worldwide is the 3D view, with which you can look at and examine your article in the online store! Tens of thousands of satisfied customers in Germany, Austria, Italy and another 15 countries are supplied by the sports specialists in the heart of the Alps. Due to the very positive development of the online store, SportOkay.com will invest in the construction of a new logistics center in Innsbruck, where a fully automated small parts storage system will be used as the central order picking system. With its AutoStore® concept Hörmann Logistik has convinced and received the order for the realization of the plant.
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Concept
The new AutoStore® warehouse will be built on the second floor of a new building. On the first floor, workstations for incoming goods and order picking are provided.
For the customized design of the AutoStore system for SportOkay.com, Hörmann Logistik's planning included several plant simulations with original data in real time.
The customer requirements together with the simulation results led to a system configuration in two construction stages. In the first construction phase, 22 robots with 26,500 totes on 16 levels and associated 6 workstations with swing ports will enable around 168 putaways and returns as well as 4,000 picks per day and 400 picks per hour. In the second, final stage of expansion, the AutoStore® grid will be enlarged to approximately twice the width, so that 44 robots with approximately 55,000 bins and 12 workstations with swing ports will provide for approximately 336 putaways and returns as well as 8,000 picks per day and 800 picks per hour.
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With the new, expandable AutoStore small parts warehouse, SportOkay.com's logistics center is perfectly equipped for the future, thanks in part to the personal and dedicated support of Hörmann Logistik.
Konrad Plankensteiner
Managing Director
The AutoStore system consists of an aluminum grid system with overall dimensions of 18.4 m x 36.9 m (79.2 m) x 5.4 m (L x W x H). In the grid system, stacks of 16 bins each stand directly on the hall floor. Mounted above the tote stacks is the track system (grid) on which the 22 (44) battery-powered autonomous robots move. The robots cooperatively pick up and re-sort bins and are responsible for the supply and disposal of the swing port workstations on the first floor. The maximum total weight of the 649 mm x 449 mm x 330 mm (L x W x H) bins is 35 kg with a net payload of around 30 kg. To safeguard the maximum weight, an overweight check takes place at the ports. The containers can be flexibly divided by dividers for the use of several items.
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The workstations for storage, retrieval and picking of goods at SportOkay.com are located below the AutoStore® system on the first floor. The articles are brought to the goods receipt workstations on pallets or in cartons, unpacked there and stored in the system. Goods intended for picking are tendered to one of the outgoing goods workstations by the AutoStore® system, the employee removes the goods and places them in the shipping carton.
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The AutoStore® small parts warehouse at SportOkay.com in Innsbruck went into operation in late summer 2018 .
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Connection of the rack storage by SAFELOG AGVs
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In the basement, large parts, such as skis, snowboards, poles, etc. are kept in shelves. Fixed storage spaces are assigned to the shelves and coded via RFID tags on the floor. This results in a shelf area with defined routes for the AGVs. Depending on the picking order, the mobile transport robots of the type SAFELOG AGV L1 pick up the shelves with the required items from the storage area. Via a console lifter, the AGV with the racking arrives directly in the picking zone and at the correct workstation. The racks are variably equipped with cantilever arms or adjustable shelves. After picking, the racks are brought back to their place by the AGV.
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Even ready-picked orders are transported from the AutoStore picking stations by specially configured SAFELOG AGVs type S2 directly to the packaging machine.
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Through this goods-to-person principle, the warehouse space could be used efficiently and the travel times of the employees could be reduced by approx. 80% during the picking activity. This significantly increases the picking rate.
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Reference Giesswein
Modern AutoStore® warehouse for Giesswein fulling goods in Austria
Giesswein Walkwaren AG is a Tyrolean family business in its third generation. Modern, sustainable and functional garments and shoes are produced in-house from hand-picked wool in traditional quality. With special know-how and a holistic approach, the company has developed into Europe's leading manufacturer of 100% virgin wool clothing. A finished goods warehouse was built in an existing warehouse at the Brixlegg site to support the steadily growing online store business and stationary trade. The tailor-made concept with the modern, versatile AutoStore® system comes from HÖRMANN Intralogistics.
Concept
The joint planning discussions and several system simulations with real data led to the individual AutoStore® system configuration with 31 robots and 17,500 bins on nine levels. The height of the AutoStore® grid was determined by the 4.6-metre-high existing hall.
In order to guarantee the performance targets of 140 storage and 900 retrieval operations per hour, 5 carousel and 3 conveyor workstation modules were initially planned. A further carousel workstation module has already been preconfigured. The single-double grid with overall dimensions of 26.1 x 30.4 x 3.1 m (L x W x H) is clad on two sides.
The 17,500 containers in the standard format 649 mm x 449 mm x 330 mm (L x W x H) each allow a payload of approx. 30 kg.
31 robots supply the Carousel workstations 8 hours a day. This requires a charging process per robot of approx. 4 hours per day, for which a total of 24 charging stations are available at the edge of the grid.
Maximum flexibility and efficiency
Basically, all workstations are equipped for putaway and picking of items. The incoming goods are delivered to the workstation by the warehouse employees.
Stacks of 9 bins are positioned directly on the warehouse floor in the grid system. A single-double-grid rail system is mounted above the container stacks, on which the battery-operated, autonomous robots travel. They pick up containers cooperatively, re-sort them as required and serve them at the carousel ports. The bins can be flexibly subdivided using dividers for the use of multiple items.
The AutoStore® system at Giesswein Walkwaren in Brixlegg was put into operation in July 2020.
The new AutoStore system makes our picking processes much more effective and makes work easier for our employees. A benefit for the whole team.
Markus Giesswein
Owner
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