Rainbow Dynamics’ new 4D Pallet Shuttle Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) has been designed to take advantage of worthwhile use of each sq. foot of the accessible house inside each ambient and chilly retailer warehouse services working at temperatures all the way down to -25 levels centigrade.
The high-density storage answer permits pallets to be saved safely and compactly and, considerably, doesn’t require a number of aisleways.
Pallets are fed into or retrieved from a sequence of ‘storage channels’ that make up the rack construction by raise truck.
Incoming masses are merely positioned on to a Rainbow Dynamics pallet provider on the entrance to the allotted ‘storage tunnel’. The pallet provider then travels to the furthest level within the ‘tunnel’ the place it deposits the load earlier than returning to its unique place.
The pallet provider can then both obtain one other pallet for storage inside the similar ‘tunnel’ or be simply and safely picked up by the fork truck and switched to a different location inside the storage system.
The high-density storage scheme may be designed to supply a alternative of first in, final out (FILO) storage, the place loading/ unloading is undertaken from only one facet of the system, or if required, first in, first out (FIFO) mode with pallet loading and unloading carried out from two opposing sides of the storage construction.
This in-built flexibility signifies that Rainbow Dynamics’ 4D Pallet Shuttle AS/RS not solely makes probably the most of a warehouse facility’s space for storing but in addition improves the velocity and effectivity of the pallet put-away and retrieval course of.
Moreover, the truth that the pallet carriers are simply moved to serve any one of many storage dice’s ‘tunnels’ permits the person to cut back operational overheads by optimising the scale of the fabric dealing with gear fleet in use on the web site.
The 4D Pallet Shuttle AS/RS is well built-in with different warehouse course of. Rainbow Dynamics provide all software program and {hardware} and handle the whole undertaking – from the preliminary design all through the set up to the system’s go reside day and past, with after gross sales assist, together with an ongoing service and upkeep schedule, additionally supplied.
The system is known to be the primary and, to date, the one 4D pallet carrier-based storage answer accessible within the UK.
International Vice President of Rainbow Dynamics, Frazer Watson, mentioned: “Inside any kind of storage facility, it’s important to maximise pallet density. Fairly merely, the extra pallets you will get into the warehouse the decrease your prices per pallet saved are going to change into.”
“With good high quality warehouse house nonetheless arduous to return by in probably the most sought-after places all through Europe, there’s plenty of curiosity round high-density storage techniques now.
The mix of high-density pallet racking and Rainbow Dynamics’ 4D Pallet Shuttle expertise delivers most storage density whereas guaranteeing that pallet accessibility is straightforward and fast andthe market’s response to it has been so overwhelmingly optimistic that we count on the system to emerge as our flagship product earlier than lengthy.”
