Thirteen is lucky for Lagena
February 1st 2008 Elettric 80 is to supply
Lagena Distribution,
Scandinavia's largest
distribution and logistics
company, with thirteen
high-lifting Laser Guided
Vehicles (LGVs) and one
high speed stretch robot for
its facility in Stockholm,
Sweden. The LGVs, each
with an 8 metre reach
capability, will work
alongside manual fork lift
trucks in a rack storage
environment to improve
safety and efficiency at the
site. Elettric 80's system will
integrate into an existing
Warehouse Management
System (WMS) and manual
picking solution.
Due to the variety of
goods going through the
centre, Elettric 80's LGV
solution has been designed
to handle different sized
pallets. The product is
stacked from floor to ceiling
in a 12,000m2 high storage
area. The vehicles deployed
will be programmed to
manoeuvre in a 3 metre
wide corridor. Not only will
the LGVs support the storage
process, they will also be
tasked with moving goods to
and from an existing
automated warehouse.
"Due to the volume of
products going through our
distribution centres, we
started to explore the
feasibility of an LGV-based
solution and in particular
the Elettric 80 offering," says
Lars Reinholdsson, md at
Lagena Distribution. "You
have to look at new ways of
reducing breakage and
consequently improve your
operational performance.
Elettric 80's solution used
proven technologies and
offered us a degree of
flexibility within our centre
that we previously didn't
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