Welcome to the September 15th issue of Warehouse & Logistics News. In our front cover story you can read how earlier this year Loadhog launched the Autotote. The Autotote is the next development in intralogistics containers. It is perfectly designed to offer smooth silent running, with its single shot double skin strengthened base and cantilever edges.
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One of the world’s largest Castor and Wheel manufacturers, Wicke GmBh, have launched their new online ordering platform. Accessed via the main website at www.wicke.com, the Web-shop constitutes a major development of the Wicke brand. The company’s head office in Germany is building a complete new packing and despatch complex and over 22,000 additional storage locations will be added.
Premium-quality RFID, barcode labels and floor marking specialist, inotec, recently completed an impressive warehouse identification project for leading fashion footwear retailer, schuh. The company awarded inotec the identification project as a result of previous work it had successfully undertaken at the schuh warehouse and distribution centre in Scotland. The latest project was for schuh’s new 49,000 square foot warehouse and distribution centre in Ballycoolin, Dublin.
As part of its ongoing growth strategy, Kite Packaging opened state-of-the-art Kite Campus in Puma Park, Coventry on 29th August 2022, to serve clients and employees better. Adding almost 190,000 square ft, the Coventry capacity now stands at 380,000 square ft, offering a considerably larger inventory to clients. With space for circa 40,000 pallets, great stock availability is guaranteed.
Vitesse technology calculates the number of metres an employee is travelling to complete each task, therefore creating a much fairer target for each individual employee, rather than units picked per hour. The X, Y, Z map coordinates created by Vitesse software are key to this measurement, and thereby provide valuable insights that enable these distances to be reduced or altered where appropriate against that employee’s target.
The software makes use of information such as product dimensions, weight, numbers of pallets or cages being used and stretching to reach higher locations, to create fair task times, according to our order picking feature.
With the intelligent Ri charging process, Fronius offers the best technology available on the market for charging lead-acid traction batteries, offering a much gentler and cooler charging characteristic that adapts to the individual state of the battery (which is detected immediately by the charger), our power sources feature reveals. This prevents overheating and overcharging. This process can reduce energy consumption by up to 30% and improve the battery service life by up to 15%. With the latest range of Selectiva 4.0 you can also benefit from further features including the current peak avoidance feature to utilise any reduced rate available and to charge at the cheapest time of day.
Enjoy reading the issue.
James Surridge
Publishing Editor
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