ORTEC Automated Shuttle Warehouse
The ORTEC Automated Shuttle Warehouse maximizes storage capacity, minimizes required space and increases throughput capacity. This automated, high-density pallet storage solution is ideal for food and beverage manufacturers, cold stores and existing buildings.
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Industries:
Manufacturing, Retail & Wholesale, Transportation and Storage
Business areas:
Warehousing
Reduce space, increase storage capacity and throughput
Would you like to double the storage capacity within your existing warehouse? Do you need a high-throughput automated storage system? Are you looking for a cost-efficient pallet warehouse with the latest automation technology? Do you need to make optimal use of available space? Are reliability and redundancy crucial to your operation?
If you’re looking for a system that maximizes storage capacity and provides reliability, scalability, design flexibility and easy maintenance, you’ll find it in ORTEC’s Automated Shuttle Warehouse.
Our Automated Shuttle Warehouse is the perfect high-density pallet warehouse for companies with fewer SKUs and medium to high-throughput requirements:
- Cold stores, down to -35°C
- Food and beverage logistics
- Low and irregular buildings
- High-throughput warehouses
- Installations where scalability is key
We chose ORTEC’s system because we needed to make maximum use of the space that we had. We got 13,500 pallets from ORTEC’s system, while their nearest competitors were only offering 9,500 pallets.
The shift towards shuttle technology
The Automated Shuttle Warehouse makes use of elevators, transfer cars and shuttles to store and retrieve pallets in deep lanes. The shuttles move freely throughout the entire system at all levels. This provides redundancy and the ability to handle fluctuating workloads.
When compared to traditional AS/RS technologies, the adaptability of our shuttle warehouse technology is unmatched. It’s the ideal system to increase capacity in existing facilities.
It follows ceiling contours, goes around columns, floor loads are low, and the ground level can be kept free for forklift corridors. When logistics characteristics change or throughput volumes increase, transfer cars and shuttles can easily be added without the need to expand the infrastructure.
Thanks to simple vehicles which move in one direction and weigh a maximum of 350kg, the system is robust and low-maintenance. Staircases and walkways on each level provide easy and safe access without the need for climbing gear.
Use it in combination with the ORTEC Sequencing Buffer
The award-winning combination of the Sequencing Buffer and Automated Shuttle Warehouse has revolutionized automated pallet storage, retrieval, and sequencing. In this integrated solution, a small Sequencing Buffer handles all inbound and outbound flows. This gives you the required capacity, flexibility and responsiveness to cope with daily disturbances, peaks and last-minute changes. In the long term you benefit from the Sequencing Buffers’ proven capability to be very flexible and adapt to significant changes in order structures, loading patterns and inventory characteristics, securing the ability to always deliver.
All pallets enter and leave the warehouse through the Sequencing Buffer, to which the Shuttle Warehouse is connected. Outbound loads are retrieved from the Shuttle Warehouse into the Sequencing Buffer well before the planned loading time, resulting in very fast and fault-free loading. With the Buffer handling all peaks, sequences, delays and last-minute changes, the Shuttle Warehouse can operate at a constant rate. This integrated solution also removes the need for inflexible and slow conveyor networks.
The warehouse automation technology of the future
ORTEC’s Automated Shuttle Warehouse is the best-in-class solution for automated pallet storage. Our intelligent software platform maximizes the performance of installed equipment and secures the adaptability of your warehouse in an always-changing logistics environment. Customers using our Automated Shuttle Warehouse see numerous benefits.
Increase the capacity of your existing warehouse by more than 60% or minimize the footprint of a new warehouse
The ideal system to do more within existing facilities
A robust and redundant system with easy and low maintenance thanks to industry standard technology.
Take advantage of an intelligent software platform and plug and play vehicles
Secure delivery by coping with operational and long-term changes and uncertainties
Significantly and structurally lower operating costs, minimized dependence on labor
Be in control of a consistent and high-quality automated product flow
Integrate warehouse execution with ORTEC Load Building and Routing and Dispatch