实例探究 > FAGE USA Dairy expands into the US, its 28th country

FAGE USA Dairy expands into the US, its 28th country

公司规模
1,000+
地区
  • America
  • Europe
国家
  • Greece
  • United States
产品
  • Savanna.NET® WMS
  • Westfalia High Density AS/RS
  • Satellite® entry vehicle
技术栈
  • Automated Storage & Retrieval System (AS/RS)
  • Warehouse Management System (WMS)
  • RF Equipment
实施规模
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
  • Cost Savings
  • Environmental Impact Reduction
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Waste Reduction
技术
  • 自动化与控制 - 自动化与过程控制系统
  • 功能应用 - 远程监控系统
  • 功能应用 - 仓库管理系统 (WMS)
适用行业
  • 消费品
  • 食品与饮料
适用功能
  • 物流运输
  • 仓库和库存管理
用例
  • 库存管理
  • 预测性维护
  • 仓库自动化
服务
  • 软件设计与工程服务
  • 系统集成
关于客户
FAGE, based in Athens, Greece, has taken the dairy world by storm with its all-natural, premium yogurt that has a distinctly rich, creamy, and fresh taste. After much success in Europe, the company is expanding into the US market – its 28th country. FAGE USA Dairy’s new plant in Johnstown, NY has a complete Westfalia Technologies, Inc. High Density Automated Storage & Retrieval System (AS/RS) with Savanna.NET® Warehouse Management System (WMS). Westfalia’s AS/RS will handle storage and picking in the 40° F warehouse.
挑战
FAGE has 3 state-of-the-art plants in Greece, which are substantially automated. The company philosophy incorporates automation as a means of competing efficiently, and maintaining product safety. Their experience with automation and its rewards, means they are well versed in the specific features they required from an AS/RS. Their requirements include the handling of buffer product from manufacturing, full pallet movement, case picking, and buffered pre-picked material back into the AS/RS for future retrieval for truck loading. FAGE USA handles individual orders, distribution center orders, and combinations of both. FAGE’s yogurt and cheese products come on trays and cases. Each pallet has either 240 or 180 trays, depending on the size of the product. The AS/RS handles pallets 40’w x 48’l x 78”h. Pallets are loaded into the AS/RS with a single SKU from manufacturing via the cooling tunnel, or via the docks where some cheese SKU’s arrive from Greece. Pallets must be loaded so the product on the bottom can handle the sustained weight, forcing shorter load heights in certain cases. And as future growth demands, the number of SKU’s and case sizes will grow and change.
解决方案
To meet these requirements Westfalia initially designed and built a 1,600 pallet free-standing rack warehouse utilizing our high-density AS/RS. Within three years, demand and growth were such that the crane aisle has been extended, with more racking and gravity flow pick lanes installed to accommodate an additional 2,460 pallets. Today, Westfalia’s automated storage and retrieval system consists of one Storage/Retrieval Machine (S/RM), a complete pallet conveying system, gravity flow pick lanes, bar code scanners, stretch wrappers, label printing and placement equipment, and Savanna.NET® WMS to control the product flow throughout the facility. The AS/RS measures 33’ high, has 4 levels, and stores in total over 4,100 pallets. Our Satellite® entry vehicle stores pallet loads 5-deep on one side of the aisle and 11-deep on the other side. All pallets are supported on our 3-rail system which provides a safer, more reliable system as pallet deflection/breakage is eliminated. Gravity flow rail pick lanes are located in the first level of the rack on the dock side of the warehouse for filling less than full pallet orders. Products can flow from the AS/RS to the picking lane or to the full pallet output where fork lift trucks can pick up pallets and load the trucks.
运营影响
  • Westfalia’s high-density technology enables flexible AS/RS designs, and a key feature of this system is its ability to accommodate growth. FAGE’s growth has been managed through extending the crane aisle for more storage lanes, and the depth of those storage lanes. The expansion area’s cubic space above the new pick lanes has been extended to 11 deep on levels 2 and up, thereby providing an additional 509 pallet storage locations (26% more storage) in addition to the 1,960 from the crane aisle extension. If not for Westfalia’s ability to program the Satellite to extend 11-deep into the racks, these 509 places would have required a 25% larger building expansion.
  • Westfalia’s modular Warehouse Management System (WMS) Savanna.NET® controls the movement and storage of all pallets within the facility. It initiates control of yogurt products at the shuttle car interface from the cooling tunnels, and for the cheese products as they enter from the dock side. To track each pallet load, a bar code reader, which interfaces with the WMS, is positioned at the infeed conveyors from the cooling tunnels and the dock area. Pallets moving both into and out of the AS/RS utilize an accumulation conveyor system which includes a profile checking station and a load squaring station. The accumulation conveyors smooth throughput surges and ensure a more streamlined flow of material between the AS/RS and order processing. Savanna controls the order picking systems, interfacing with portable RF equipment carried by the pickers in hip holsters. As the pallet loads leave the AS/RS area, a print and apply bar code device prints and automatically places labels on the outside of stretch wrapped loads.
数量效益
  • Storage for 1600 pallets originally, later expanded to 4100 pallet positions
  • 40% increase in storage capacity with a high-density AS/RS
  • 30% reduction in energy costs due to efficiencies of AS/RS systems -- reduced lighting, regenerative SRM braking, smaller area to cool/freeze, etc.
  • 26% more storage with the expansion area’s cubic space above the new pick lanes

Case Study missing?

Start adding your own!

Register with your work email and create a new case study profile for your business.

Add New Record

相关案例.

联系我们

欢迎与我们交流!
* Required
* Required
* Required
* Invalid email address
提交此表单,即表示您同意 IoT ONE 可以与您联系并分享洞察和营销信息。
不,谢谢,我不想收到来自 IoT ONE 的任何营销电子邮件。
提交

感谢您的信息!
我们会很快与你取得联系。