Why choose automated warehouses?

Today, choose automated warehouses means gaining a significant competitive advantage.
Indeed, the need to keep up with an increasingly pressing demand from modern markets has highlighted the need for companies to equip themselves with tools and solutions to manage their complexity.

Warehouse automation and integration of logistics processes with robotic facilities are at the heart of this advantage.

Integration

An automated warehouse has the great advantage of being fully integrated with corporate management systems. Thanks to the warehouse management software, WMS (Warehouse Management System), the user always has full control over inventories, movements and situations at every level of the facility.

This allows for complete product traceability, now an indispensable feature for any modern company.
The ability to track items passed through the warehouse is a key feature today for all companies, but especially for those sectors that need widespread traceability of their products. An automated warehouse can tell if a product from a particular lot is still in the warehouse, when it came in if it went out, or under which order and DDT it was shipped.

Increased storage capacity

The major difference between an automated warehouse and a traditional warehouse also plays out in the amount of references stored and space utilization.
In contrast to a traditional warehouse, an automated warehouse is able to store a larger number of references by utilizing all available space and minimizing handling space.

A shelving system supplied with stacker cranes, for example, does not require wide aisles for material handling and, above all, allows the height utilization of all available space. This solution makes it possible to increase and optimize storage space by using every useful inch of the shelving without increasing the horizontal square footage of the warehouse.

Efficiency and Safety

Automating the warehouse means completely overturning its logic, entrusting the warehouseman with a fixed location (picking bay) where goods are automatically channeled. This paradigm shift makes it possible to increase the efficiency of the entire facility, decreasing the risks associated with accidents and drastically reducing losses from human error, thus halving the cost of handling issues.

Automating the warehouse means completely overturning its logic, entrusting the warehouseman with a fixed location (picking bay) where goods are automatically channeled. This paradigm shift makes it possible to increase the efficiency of the entire facility, decreasing the risks associated with accidents and drastically reducing losses from human error, thus halving the cost of handling issues.

Savings and Productivity

Obviously, before deciding to automate a warehouse, it is necessary to rely on a partner who knows how to carry out a careful analysis of requirements, objectives and critical issues so as to choose the best solution to optimize results. Uteco-Contec is able to follow any customer in choosing an automated warehouse on the strength of its many years of multi-sector experience and in designing and delivering these solutions.

All these benefits translate into considerable savings for companies in terms of time and money and a significant increase in productivity and quality of material handling operations.

One of the greatest advantages of equipping oneself with an automated warehouse concerns the net savings that result despite the large initial investment. In fact, equipping an automated warehouse generally corresponds to significant savings in operating costs, from those for handling goods through those related to personnel.

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