Warehouse Management
Holistic digital twin of a logistics center
Under the motto "Intelligent intralogistics - experience the flow", Siemens is presenting the holistic digital twin of a real logistics center at this year's Logimat. Fully automated material flow systems enable warehouse operations to be accelerated, processes to be optimized, costs and errors to be reduced and, ultimately, higher throughput to be achieved.
This will be demonstrated in concrete terms at the trade fair using the digital twin of Siemens' own logistics center in Nuremberg. With 12,000 orders per day, 22,000 delivery note items, 27 storage and retrieval machines and three kilometers of automated conveyor belts, the distribution center serves 25,000 customers worldwide. Using this real-life example, customers at the trade fair can find out in detail how simulation scenarios help to optimize shift planning, for example, in order to achieve maximum productivity.
Nuremberg logistics center
It will also show how Digital Twins help to identify bottlenecks and peak loads in order to optimize the material flow and how this can maintain the throughput and overall performance of the warehouse and thus the fulfillment rate of almost 100 percent. The seamless interaction between the real and digital worlds increases the productivity and flexibility of the systems, sustainably reduces costs and energy consumption and therefore also the CO2 footprint.
A new addition to the Siemens intralogistics portfolio is Simatic Robot Pick AI, an image processing software for robot solutions based on machine learning, which Siemens will also be presenting at Logimat. The 3D image processing software enables robots to pick any item in warehouse picking tasks, regardless of its shape and size. A pre-trained deep learning algorithm controls this ability to identify the most suitable 3D positions for picking and make them available for robot execution.
Hall 3, Stand D11
This article appeared in issue 4/23
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