Modernization
Vahle puts small parts warehouse into operation
Vahle, system provider for mobile industrial applications, put one of Europe's most modern goods flow systems into operation in Kamen on June 28, according to the company. This marks the official completion of the 2.5 million euro modernization of the warehouse.
Representatives from politics, business and administration were invited to the site for the official opening. The system provider for mobile industrial applications supplies the connected production facility with individual parts from there. Following the modernization, order picking will be carried out automatically using Jungheinrich warehouse technology. An additional 20 million euros are to be invested in the site over the next five years.
"Investment is the basis for sustainable process optimization"
"With this investment, we are creating the basis for sustainably optimizing all upstream and downstream production processes. At the same time, we are committing ourselves to the Kamen site," says Achim Dries, Managing Director of Paul Vahle GmbH & Co. At the heart of the new system is an automated small parts warehouse (AKL) with 7,314 storage locations. Containers are stored there double-deep or quadruple-deep transverse, which are served by a Jungheinrich storage and retrieval machine with a travel speed of six meters per second.
RBG: Energy stored during braking
In addition, a wide-aisle warehouse, cantilever racking for long goods and so-called flow racks were built. The modernization increased the logistics area to around 3,500 square meters. "With the commissioning of the mini-load warehouse, Vahle is the first company in the world to use the STC stacker crane presented by Jungheinrich in 2018," explains Jürgen Wagenknecht, the responsible project manager at Jungheinrich. Energy buffers specially adapted to the driving behavior, so-called "super caps", store the energy released during braking and release it back to the drive system when accelerating. Dries explains: "This allows us to reduce the energy requirement and, in particular, the connected load of the stacker crane by up to 25 percent compared to conventional systems.
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