Knapp's 5000th Shuttle blasts off!
August 1st 2010 Warehouse automation supplier
Knapp has delivered the 5000th
shuttle from its OSR Shuttle range,
which now boasts over 100 satisfied
customers worldwide. Although there
are several similar products on the
market today, the shuttle storage
concept was invented by Knapp when
the OSR Shuttle made its market
debut back in 2002. Knapp has
continued to develop the system,
adding new variations to the range
since then, and is about to launch
even more innovations.
Customers in diverse industries
around the world are reaping the
benefits of the proven OSR Shuttle
system and there are reported to be
orders in the pipeline for another
2000 shuttles. There are several large
projects underway in the UK and
Germany that feature OSR Shuttle
solutions – some with rack heights of
18m and rack lengths of more than
100m.
The OSR Shuttle is the foundation
for Knapp's low-complexity
warehouse concept, which aims to
reduce the number of technologies
used around the warehouse. The OSR
Shuttle system can be tailored to suit
a wide range of customer
requirements, with variations
available from specialised dispatch
systems to high-performance multideep
warehouses.
All OSR Shuttle solutions are
modular, formed from the key
components of racking, shuttles, lift
system and control system. The OSR
Shuttle covers all the key processes of
the modern automated warehouse
including storage, consolidation,
sequencing, buffering, picking and
handling of returns. The modular
design allows system expansion to be
carried out step-by-step, and the
investment scaled accordingly, when
customer needs change over time and
create demands for increased
performance or capacity.
The OSR Shuttle can handle a large
variety of containers, trays and
cartons, as well as raw products such
as film-wrapped CDs, DVDs and
videogames. The intelligent control
system supports RFID, allowing all
the relevant product data to be saved
in a chip that is integrated into the
tote, making barcode scanning a thing
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