The Industrial Revolution 4.0 has boosted production activities in the world. The production lines are fully digitized, operate automatically and limit human impact on production. Beside, customer expectations are increasingly changing along with the disruption caused by COVID-19 pandemic so building a smart warehouse is essential to stay competitive. Therefore, smart warehouse models have since been born and become more popular.
What’s a smart warehouse?
Smart warehouse is also known as an automatic warehouse. This is a smart warehouse system with a combination of the various interconnected warehousing technologies and management software working together to connect each warehouse process. This collaboration of technologies improves productivity, efficiency, reduces risks and labor for the business.
Smart warehouse is an integral part of a smart factory and become an inevitable trend that all manufacturing businesses aim for in the Industry 4.0.
Benefits of smart warehouse
Optimize space: warehouses Smart logistics saves space and floor space by taking advantage of the height of the factory while ensuring safety. Automated warehouses can help optimize warehouse space up to 85% compared to traditional warehouses.
Save operation cost: Smart warehouse is also known as an automatic warehouse. This is a smart warehouse system with a combination of the various interconnected warehousing technologies and management software working together to create a single network helps businesses easily monitor the entire operation of the warehouse, increasing operational productivity, reducing risks and reducing labor.
Fully automatic and accurate operation: Smart warehouse operates on fully automatic warehouse management software, each warehouse pallet is stored on a separate location, each cell has its own IP address, making it easy for the system to identify and confirm the location of the product accurately based on encrypted information about the number of product codes. product, date of manufacture, size.. When you want to import or export products, warehouse managers only need to enter orders according to the product IP, the system will automatically retrieve and perform automatic and accurate export thanks to the following systems: automatic conveyor engine, cargo robot, crane system.
Minimize labor and errors, risks in warehouse operations: The storage, shipment, counting, and inventory management are done by warehouse management software (WMS, ERP…) to help limit errors. in counting, inventory statistics and reducing warehouse service workers significantly.
Higher quality and productivity: The warehouse structure is solid, easy and quick to install, maintain and change without affecting the operation of the entire system. Warehouse structure is always optimized to ensure good load capacity and save costs for customers. Smart warehouse structure is calculated, designed and simulated for customers on 3D software before being put into production. All are controlled and meet the load requirements with a high safety factor. Modular design makes it easy to assemble, quick to install, and easy to expand the warehouse model when needed.
Real-time connection: With an automatic warehouse management system, all parameters will be displayed and updated in real time. These parameters include: quantity of each product type; any product location; inventory status; Forecast stock status and predict scenarios according to production plan. This helps businesses manage goods easily and handle quickly.
Flexible & easily customized hardware & software system to meet the constantly changing needs of customers: Smart warehouses are designed, manufactured and installed in a modular manner. Modules are designed according to requirements and customized according to customers’ products to ensure the highest efficiency. The expansion of the warehouse scale and the integration of other automated systems (cargo-feeding robots, conveyors) automatically…) is also very easy and flexible. Management software can also set up storage scenarios, import and export warehouses according to customer requirements, easily change according to actual production, and plan to adjust production in time.
Advantages of smart warehouse
- The whole smart warehouse system is fully automated, easy and safe to operate.
- Large storage capacity should have the same space (increased from 100% to 300% compared to traditional warehouses ).
- Warehouse system with high stability and low investment cost compared to the same storage capacity of traditional warehouses, low operating costs.
- The smart warehouse system can be easily replaced and upgraded quickly without affecting the operation because it has been modularized and standardized.
- The hardware and software system is very flexible, easily customized to meet the constantly changing needs of customers.
- Importing and exporting warehouses is easy, scientific and less labor, saving monthly warehouse management and operation costs.
Application of smart warehouse
Smart warehouse is very popular application and meets all businesses with storage needs such as:
- In the factory: Food, food breed; Petroleum/Chemical; Textiles and garments, leather shoes; Metal consumables; Power electronics; Medicines and medical equipment; Automotive industry, mechanical engineering; Building materials; Document archives, etc.
- In the logistics: warehouse for distribution, transshipment, consignment of goods, etc.
Applications of smart warehouses help businesses manage goods in the warehouse in the most optimal way to ensure delivery time and control the amount of inventory in the warehouse at a minimum.
Autotech Vietnam is officially an authorized distributor of Kardex Remstar – The world’s leading smart warehouse system in Vietnam.
Vietnam Autotech Machinery Joint Stock Company is a leading enterprise in machinery designing and manufacturing, automation & smart factory solutions in Vietnam. Autotech is constantly making efforts to research and develop automation solutions to help businesses operate smoothly and speed up development in industry 4.0.
Understanding the status of warehouse management at enterprises in Vietnam is mainly managed on excel files, not managing the import and export positions, leading to loss of goods, wastes a lot of labor, a delay in the production process, etc.
Therefore, in early 2022, Autotech officially cooperated with Kardex to become the authorized distributor of Kardex Remstar automated storage systems, helping businesses optimize warehouses as well as strictly manage the status of importing – exporting goods and inventory.
Autotech is committed to providing the genuine Kardex Remstar smart warehouse system with the most reasonable cost and price in the market to customers.
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