Verteks implemented means of warehouse automation

On October 17, 2016 the Jungheinrich company announced an implementation project of the automation system and management of a warehouse in Verteks company.

Project Tasks

At pharmkompleks construction, the production schedules put on perspective till 2017 provided high fillability of a warehouse at the first stages of plant operation.

We had to create essentially new modern technologies and innovation equipment warehouse. Technological solutions and offers were received from several companies. The Jungheinrich concern developed the project which optimum considered our requirements, was adapted for the Russian conditions and it was the most commercially profitable. Moreover, we collected responses of the specialists working with the different equipment: I personally visited several enterprises to estimate efficiency of use of different racks. On responses and practical estimates the solutions Jungheinrich were in the lead. Alexey Trunin, director of warehouse and transport logistics of JSC Verteks

Warehouse of Verteks company, (2014)

Based on the tender in 2014 the decision on project implementation and acquisition of the rack equipment Jungheinrich was made.

Project Progress

By means of preferences which the state provided to the resident enterprises of the SEZ (in this case, customs privileges) the companies optimized economic leaving the project.

Warehouse of Verteks company, (2014)

Project Results

For October 17, 2016 in a warehouse of a pharmzavod "Verteks" storage of pharmaceutical raw materials and ready medicines is organized. Using narrow-passage racks of Jungheinrich with height of storage of 14 meters in a warehouse 6.2 thousand pallets on the area of 4.1 thousand m ² are placed.

Two EKX 515 narrow-passage Jungheinrich pilers managed in a semi-automatic mode, two electric fork EFG 216k loaders, the flood EJC 110 piler and two horizontal pickers of orders – ECE 225 and ECE 220, service processes of stacking and movement of goods.

In a pharmaceutical warehouse safety conditions are especially important: both people, and manufactured goods. The Verteks company uses expensive raw materials, and one pallet of finished goods can cost tens of millions of rubles. Therefore in a warehouse of the company the system of navigation which works with the help of the transponders installed in a warehouse floor was implemented and intended for auto manual control by movement of machines on warehouse passes. It increases passive security, allows to lower a human factor. Yury Legochkin, the project manager of sales department of the system Jungheinrich equipment in St. Petersburg