Over 18,000 container spaces on 480 square meters

On a footprint of just 480 square meters, the Jungheinrich PowerCube Fastbolt offers space for more than 18,000 container storage locations.

The screw wholesaler Fastbolt has ordered a Jungheinrich PowerCube. The innovative compact container warehouse impressed with its space utilization, flexibility, performance and physical and digital integration into the existing warehouse.

With the space-saving Jungheinrich PowerCube, Fastbolt, a volume importer of fasteners from Gronau in Westphalia, will automate the storage of small parts. On a footprint of just 480 square meters, the Fastbolt compact warehouse offers space for more than 18,000 small parts containers, each with a load capacity of up to 50 kilograms. Thanks to this particularly high storage density, Fastbolt can easily integrate the Jungheinrich PowerCube into its existing warehouse, including the existing fire protection concept.

Two 50 kg containers per shuttle at the same time

"By converting our small parts storage from high-bay pallet racking to the PowerCube, we are optimizing the use of our storage space and at the same time significantly increasing the efficiency of our picking processes," says Ekkehard Beermann, Managing Director at Fastbolt Schraubengroßhandels GmbH. Five special PowerCube shuttles ensure fast storage and retrieval of small parts containers in Fastbolt's compact container warehouse. At speeds of up to 4 meters per second, the shuttles can simultaneously transport two containers, each with a load of 50 kilograms, to three work stations.

The lithium-ion batteries of the shuttles are temporarily charged during operation at the respective work stations, with the current collectors located on the shuttle and the charging contacts on the racking system. As the shuttles move fully automatically under the PowerCube racking, the compact container storage system from Jungheinrich offers the decisive advantage over other systems that the warehouse can be flexibly built upwards and also adapted to individual roof shapes. Thanks to the scalable number of shuttles, the throughput of the PowerCube can be adapted as required in the event of increasing demand or expansion of the product range. The capacity of the system can also be easily expanded by adding any number of container shafts.

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