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AT A GLANCE Company: TRECO A/S |
PROCESSES AUTOMATED Transporting materials from warehouse to production line Transporting empty packaging from production line to warehouse |
Short implementation time Safe, reliable, and efficient pallet transport GoPal automatically delivers materials on time to the production line (i.e., no more pre-loaded pallets taking up space in the production area) Non-warehouse staff do not need to enter warehouse anymore Transfer of one full-time employee to more important and value-adding tasks |
TRECO decided to deploy a GoPal 400 (later replaced by the GoPal E24) AMR, ten pallet stations, three pallet conveyor stations and multiple Call Buttons to automate the following tasks:
Furthermore, as TRECO runs three production shifts, but only a single warehouse day shift, the GoPal solution provided additional benefits. Before automating their internal pallet transport, the warehouse day shift had to manually transport all the materials required for the evening and night shifts and place all the fully pre-loaded pallets close to the production line. That took up a lot of space and the pallets had to be constantly rearranged for access.
So, as part of their GoPal solution, TRECO decided to install two pallet station buffers: one at the warehouse and one at the production line. This means that the warehouse shift can now simply place all the pre-loaded pallets (for the evening and night shifts) on the warehouse pallet station buffer. When a pallet is empty at the production line, the robot transports the empty pallet to the warehouse, picks up a new fully loaded pallet and transports it to the production line. All through the evening and nights shifts.
This way, the GoPal solution automatically ensures that the required production materials are always available at the production line and without production staff having to enter the warehouse.
“A funny thing is that the robot in itself also sends a clear message to the employees: that the warehouse is off-limits for non-warehouse staff,” smiles COO Nicolaj B. Andersen. “Previously, non-warehouse staff would sometimes enter the storage area, pick items, but forget to register them. This is not an issue anymore.”
- COO Nicolaj B. Andersen