Fresenius Kabi Gets Automated with SSI Schaefer
Also from SSI Schaefer, it is announced that pharmaceutical giant Fresenius Kabi has opened a brand new state of the art, fully automated, high-bay warehouse at Cargo Centre Graz (CCG),
planned, designed and installed by SSI Schaefer. Fresenius Kabi, the leader in infusion therapy and clinical nutrition in
Europe and countries of Latin America and Asia Pacific, chose CCG in
Austria, a public and private supported freight village, as the location
for its modern logistics facility due to the close proximity of its
existing manufacturing plant and the supporting infrastructure.
The fully automated high bay warehouse houses two aisles inclusive of
two stacker cranes, controlled by logistics software WAMAS, with double
deep storage. The racking system, with a length of 94 metres, a width of
15 metres and a height of 26 metres, provides a storage capacity for
7,500 euro and industrial pallets. A conveying system platform,
containing 36 drive units, plus two other platforms for ventilation
units are located in the upper warehouse level. The overall system is operated by WAMAS including 490 digital inputs and
236 digital outputs. Simultaneously, the WAMAS material flow calculator
controls the flow of goods on the conveying systems and ensures the
transport to and from the pallet storage locations.
Due to the nature of the products being stored the warehouse has three
temperature zones for its different sections ranging from minus 15
degrees Celsius to room temperature - these areas include an
oxygen-reduced, fully automated high bay warehouse, a clean area for the
sampling of products and a state of the art monitoring system. The new Fresenius Kabi logistics facility accommodates the company's
complete warehouse management system, the goods-in area and picking
area. It will serve as the base for the company-owned trucks which
supply hospitals and pharmacies throughout Austria but perhaps more
importantly will operate as a central logistics interface to supply
Eastern European markets as well as patients from all over the world
with products made in Graz.
CCG Immobilien GmbH, a subsidiary of CCG, and
Porr commissioned the project and were in charge of the entire
implementation process. Peter Pittino, Chief Executive of CCG Immobilien
GmbH said: "Our ambition was to capture all relevant factors for the
logistics project in as little time as possible and to mutually
integrate these ideas into the building project. All project
participants have nailed this task in an extremely impressive manner." The whole warehouse exceeds the high expectations and requirements set
within the pharmaceutical industry nationally and internationally.
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