Aeroquip Material Handling Case Study

Key Technology

• 8 Double-stacked horizontal carousels (White)
•  4 dual shuttle automatic inserters/extractors
• 10 ergonomically designed “Count-Weigh” workstations from Simbiote
•  Hytrol 32 lane high speed sortation conveyor
•  Windows-based GUI screens for carousel and conveyor sortation statistics and diagnostics
•  RoboCom’s Warehouse Management System

Business Challenge

1. Thirteen of Aeroquip’s distribution centers were consolidated down to two.
2.  To accommodate increased order volume, a new highly automated facility was built in Van Wert, Ohio.
3.  New facility serves as a “real time” buffer on the back-end of their manufacturing process.
4. This buffer must be used for finished goods order picking and general assembly of new SKU’s.

Results

1. Bastian’s solution helped Aeroquip better serve their 2500 OEM’s and 850 distributors by slashing order fulfillment cycle time by 40%.
2.  Carousel pods achieved maximum throughput: 500 totes are retrieved and delivered per hour.