Sunday 11 March 2018

Increase warehouse efficiency with an AS/RS



An automated storage space and retrieval system is a strategic answer to obtain a competitive advantage. Westfalia's flexible automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) ensure the ability to adjust to changing market conditions now and in the near future. We offer profound market knowledge accumulated over many years of firsthand experience implementing factory solutions within a variety of industries. Westfalia gives you automated warehouse solutions to manufacturers and distributors utilizing a variety of a lot (unit, layer, or extra-large) within various temperature varieties for both non-rack and rack supported structures.

Westfalia specializes in the pursuing types of configurations:

  • Thick, multiple deep storage systems
  • Double-deep storage systems
  • Single-deep storage systems



Today's modern storage systems are required to process increasingly complex jobs and provide reliability and overall flexibility for future needs. Westfalia's high-density AS/RS increase warehouse efficiency by:

Increasing available storage space in existing structures, avoiding off site storage and expansions
Reducing overall building footprint up to 50% versus typical warehouses
Reducing energy costs by 40% in chiller environments
Reducing labor and product damage costs
Elevating inventory accuracy and customer care

Why Westfalia?

As designers and planners - not merely technology providers - the main driving force for all of us is working alongside our customers as an energetic partner. Westfalia's engineers breakthrough discovery the barriers of standard designs, opening innovative opportunities for higher productivity, better space utilization and higher monetary justification. Time and again, our customers praise us for the job we do for them, and the value we add to their organization.

Westfalia's AS/RSs are better by design, due to our Satellite(R) technology, triple rail support and hybrid AS/R system warehouse designs utilizing sole, double and multiple-deep safe-keeping in the same section. Westfalia automated systems are certainly not limited by depth, elevation or width. Westfalia's two times mast storage and collection machine (S/RM) is designed to cover large side to side and vertical distances reaching out to horizontal speeds of 900ft. /min. and vertical rates of speed of 400ft. /min.

Westfalia's AS/RS components include:

Storage/Retrieval Machine (S/RM)
Satellite(R) or Telescopic Fork load removal devices
Savanna. NET(R) Storage place Management Software (WMS) and Warehouse Control Software (WCS)

Triple rail support AS/RS rack structure
Integration to warehousing and logistical systems such as order completion, pallet flow systems, conveyors, palletizers, and case packaging and handling equipment.