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Efficiency is under pressure in intralogistics applications. Companies need more flexibility, the ability to stock a wider range of items within a smaller space and guaranteed faster retrieval times. At the same time, storage and handling requirements are increasingly shifting towards individual bins, trays and cardboard boxes. To cope with these demands, Kardex Remstar has developed a new generation of storage systems, which offers high order picking performance and provides a fast ROI, while consuming minimal energy and occupying less floor space. The new LR 35 storage system consists of a shelf system with automatic bin handling, picking stations and its own logistics software. In the middle of the multi-segment shelf system is an aisle, where a moveable mast with a telescopic gripper operates. The control unit sets the gripper in motion depending on the electronic command issued by the software. It picks up a bin, cardboard box or tray filled with small parts and transports it to the picking station. The Kardex Remstar LR 35 can manage up to 500 order lines per picking station/hour when two or more units are combined or batch picking is used. Guido Follert, head of the machinery and plant department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML), oversaw the innovation process for the LR 35 with his team. The IML in Dortmund (Germany) establishes links between basic research at universities and industrial needs and applications. “With the LR 35 we have enclosed in a housing an automated, concentrated and efficient storage logistics system,” says Follert. Above all else, the new storage system can deliver this impressive performance without the need for a major plant engineering project. Due to its high order picking performance, the LR 35 is suitable for slow-moving goods, giving omni-channel retailers, for instance, a crucial competitive […]