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Which are the advantages of the integration between storage solutions and LGVs?

E80 Group November 19, 2023

Smart Manufacturing
Which are the advantages of the integration between storage solutions and LGVs?

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Effective warehouse management is fundamental to allow producers to optimize the production flow according to the actual market demand, reducing shipping times, minimizing errors, and exploiting the available space.

All automated storage systems and high-density warehouse solutions provided by E80 use AGV-LGV Systems, implemented with lithium batteries and the latest safety technologies.

Automated high density warehouse with LGVs

All intralogistics movements integrated thanks to Automated Warehouses

The market requires continuous innovation of manufacturing and supply chain operations. To answer this call, E80 Group offers a complete portfolio with various technologies to automate all intralogistics movements by synchronizing the different systems, from the entry of raw materials all way to warehousing and shipments. Automation significantly helps turn warehouses into more reliable, safe, and productive spaces, ensuring total traceability.

E80’s uniqueness lies in providing tailored solutions that fit a company’s business type and infrastructure, applicable to automating existing and new factories or distribution centers. 
E80 storage systems are developed after carefully analyzing the starting situation, the type of product to store, and each customer’s business objectives. The layout is developed with simulation software, capable of identifying the best intralogistics solutions from the first design phase for greenfield and brownfield plants.
 

Warehouse management system: the Software that ensures Product Traceability and Process Optimization

E80 Group offers turnkey greenfield and brownfield solutions that integrate innovation, reliability, and performance, assisting the customer in achieving their objectives and maintaining the high performance of the implemented systems.
A single software platform - SM.I.LE80 - supervises warehousing, peripheral infeed/outfeed systems, and LGVs/AGVs, ensuring maximum performance and flexibility.

Thanks to the state-of-the-art software platform, the warehouse becomes a dialoguing and integrated element with upstream and downstream processes, maximizing the efficiency of production lines and service levels to the market. This way, E80 guarantees that Smart Factories can respond to the markets’ speed, where all the processes depend on consumers’ requests.
E80 optimizes stock density on a given footprint within indoor and free-standing warehouses, designing all storage systems to deliver orders without delay or error, with maximum efficiency and minimal social and environmental impact.
 

Automated Guided Vehicle Systems in Warehouse

Perfectly integrated with LGV/AGV technology, E80 warehousing solutions optimize internal plant logistics management, flows, storage, and costs. Thanks to laser-guided vehicles (LGVs), it is possible to safely automate all types of racks and warehouses by synchronizing different systems: processing, packaging, end-of-line, warehousing, and shipping. This results in security, flexibility, scalability, and full traceability of products / raw materials.

Storage systems can be automated thanks to LGVs and AGVs. Powered by Lithium-ion batteries and equipped with the most advanced safety technology, LGVs and AGVs can automate warehousing operations, handle various product storage, and link up multiple types of warehouses: Block Storage, Flow Rack, Selective, Drive-in, Easy Storage, and Twin-Load.

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High-density Warehouse Storage systems: E80 Solutions

E80’s systems respond to the diverse needs of speed and selectivity, optimizing warehouses’ spaces. Among the leading high-density warehousing solutions, E80’s products line includes high-bay warehouse storage systems with shuttles or cranes.

Both solutions offer integration and optimization of the supply chain.

  • AVSRS |Smart Store® provides multi-depth pallet storage with independent movement at each level.

A combination of shuttles and satellites ensures excellent performance with complete safety.
Lithium-ion battery power means reduced maintenance costs, while its regenerative technology provides tremendous energy savings. The result is a winning solution for maximized storage density, operating frequencies, and system modularity.

Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS)

  • ASRS | Crane Store® uses stacker cranes equipped with automatic product-handling devices for single, double, and multi-depth storage.

Because they can operate at impressive storage heights (over 40m), these Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) significantly increase storage capacity for given floor space.
The implemented technology package ensures high dynamism, maximum reductions in energy consumption – due to the integrated regenerative functions of the stacker crane drives and the lithium-ion batteries that power the satellites – and minimized maintenance costs.

E80 Group among the top warehouse automation companies

Automated warehouses have revolutionized the way goods are stored. E80 Group offers technologically advanced solutions for automatic pallet handling, and since 2016, the company has installed 35 high-intensity automatic warehouses globally. E80 manages the entire engineering and production process of automated warehouses: from the design phase to the assembly and testing of electronic, mechanical, and software components, working in close contact with the Group's software department (SM.I.LE80).

The engineering takes place considering the type of product to be stored, the number of SKUs, the components, if it is a self-supporting warehouse, and taking into account the regulations of the customer's geographical area. Each project is tailor-made. 
Furthermore, thanks to the proprietary software that coordinates the entire process, each operation is optimized, safe, tracked.