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Drinks firm implements ASRS solution
06 August 2018
B2A Technology has automated a 27,000 sq m warehouse for The Castel Group.
The Castel Group is the world’s third largest drinks merchant. B2A Technology is the holding company of Alstef and BA Robotic Systems, and is a provider of automated intralogistics solutions.
The new production centre has been provided with a complete and integrated handling solution. It comprises AGVs to automated warehouses, with three distinct areas.
The first area is intended for the storage of wire containers (4400 locations on 5 levels) and TSR riddling containers (4200 locations on 4 and 5 levels). This temperature and hygrometry-controlled area is reserved for the French “Crémant” sparkling wine. The handling of wire and TSR containers is carried out by a fleet of counterbalanced AGVs.
The second area hosts the receiving and the gravity shipping areas, as well as a bulk storage of 25,060 locations at ambient temperature. This warehouse is comprised of six multi-depth storage aisles (6 stacker cranes with satellites), supplied by eight double powered conveyors AGVs.
The third area includes a traditional manual storage of 2,100 locations and an automated buffer storage of nearly 2,500 locations (three single-load / single-depth stacker cranes) supplying the manual picking area. The four ergonomic order-picking shafts workstations, EasyPickStation, are supplied with master pallets by two sequencing shuttles. The outfeeding of the subassemblies is also ensured by shuttle.
The facility will be managed by Stockware WMS developed by Alstef. A specific add-on for load composition of pallets has been added. This module can optimise the number and the size of the pallets but also build the load while respecting the constraints of fragility, orientation and weight of the products as well as specific customer constraints (non-alternating layers, contiguous products, etc.). The pallets are built to best optimise transport.
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