In recent years, the four-way radio shuttle has been well used in the electric power, food, medicine, cold chain and other industries. It has material handling capability in X-axis and Y-axis and high flexibility and especially suitable for special-shaped warehouse layouts. High-density storage is also suitable for operation modes with more product specifications and fewer batches.
Four-way radio shuttle system: a complete level of cargo position management (WMS) and equipment dispatching capability (WCS), it can ensure the stable and efficient operation of the overall system. In order to avoid waiting for the operation of the four-way radio shuttle and lifter, a buffer conveyor line is designed between the lifter and the rack. The four-way radio shuttle and lifter both transfer the pallets to the buffer conveyor line for transfer operations, thereby improving the operation efficient.
Recently, Inform Storage and Hangzhou Dechuang Energy Equipment Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement on a power maintenance company’s storage of electric power emergency repair materials. The project adopts a four-way radio shuttle system. This system is an efficient storage solution that can perform fast and accurate sorting as well as picking operations, which saves space and have greater flexibility.
1. Project overview
This project uses the four-way radio shuttle compact storage system to store goods. The number of shelves is 4 layers, and the total number of pallet position is 304. It possesses 4 mother lanes, 1 four-way radio shuttle, and 1vertical conveyor for four-way radio shuttle.
The specific layout is as follows:
Difficulties of the project:
1). The centralized load on the floor of the warehouse is not enough; (the customer warehouse is the building warehouse, and there is a parking garage under the warehouse)
Solution: Lay H-beam steel on the ground and connect it into a steel net, and put the racking up right foot on the steel net, which effectively reduces the concentrated load of racking to the ground, and solves the problem of insufficient ground load;
2). The height of the cargo is 2750mm, and the tall cargo is easy to overturn during the transportation process in the warehouse area;
Solution: Avoid it through high-performance equipment and high-precision racking. Four-way radio shuttles, lifter and other handling equipment run smoothly, with stable performance, and high accuracy on racking production and installation.
2. Four-way radio shuttle system
The four-way radio shuttle is an intelligent device used for pallet cargo handling. It can achieve both vertical and horizontal walking, and can reach any position in the warehouse; the horizontal movement and retrieval of goods in the racking is only done by one four-way radio shuttle, and the level of system automation is greatly improved through the lifter to change layer. It is a new generation of intelligent handling equipment for pallet-type compact storage solutions.
The four-way radio shuttle system can be well adapted to special application environments such as low warehouses and in irregular shapes, and can meet operating scenarios such as large changes in the efficiency of in and out of the warehouse and high requirements for maximum efficiency. Since the four-way radio shuttle system can realize flexible project expansion and equipment increase, it can meet the needs of customers to carry out in terms and reduce customer investment pressure.
The four-way radio shuttle can run in four directions in the racking to realize the handling task at any position on the same layer by single device. Through the cooperation with the layer changing lifter, goods in whole warehouse can be moved. The four-way shuttle scheduling system can perform task scheduling on the four-way shuttle cluster, realize the concurrent operation of multiple shuttles at same level and multiple tasks in the system, and meet the high efficiency requirements of the system. The four-way shuttle reduces the operating cost of the warehouse by reducing the weight of the equipment and adopting the energy recovery technology.
Features of Inform storage four-way radio shuttle:
○ Independent integrated circuit board technology;
○ Advanced communication technology;
○ run in four directions and work across lanes;
○ Unique design, layer change operation;
○ Multi vehicles collaborative operation on the same layer;
○ Assist in intelligent scheduling and path planning;
○ Fleet operations are not limited to first-in first-out (FIFO) or first-in-last-out (FILO) warehousing operations.
3. Project advantages
1). The four-way radio shuttle solution has a high space utilization rate and a larger cargo space;
2). The solution can realize the function of random out of the library, avoiding the warehouse shifting and shifting, and the efficiency is greater;
3).The efficiency is flexible and controllable. It is possible to increase the number of sets for single device to meet the customer’s demand for efficiency increasing. If the efficiency is expanded in the later stage, the workload of project transformation will be less or even zero;
4). The project investment is low, and the number of equipment sets is allocated according to Party A’s efficiency to meet Party A’s efficiency requirements while at the same time making the investment smaller;
5). The design of the racking adjustment line effectively reduces the installation difficulty and makes the racking installation more accurate.
In recent years, the four-way radio shuttle has been widely used in the logistics and warehousing industry. Inform Storage will, as always, be committed to closely following customer needs, tailoring logistics integration solutions for customers, using advanced science and technology, optimizing indoor warehousing supply and circulation links, helping customers realize the value-added of the entire supply chain, and ultimately help customers with continuous development, making logistics and warehousing become smarter.
Post time: Sep-02-2021
