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简体中文 Have you ever counted how many wrong ways workers in factories have to travel every day to move goods?Said it may scare you - just find goods, moving goods, etc. forklift these actions, can eat 30% work time! Not to mention the handling of hand slippery fall broken parts, production lines and other material stoppage of these bad things ...... Don't worry, today we will pick up a car factory and logistics warehouse of the actual case, look at thePallet conveying systemsIt's how to double efficiency and cut costs in half!
🧩Firstly, what makes this little thing, the pallet, make car manufacturing fly?
To put it bluntly, the tray is aMobile Handling StationsIt transforms the scattered parts on the floor into a neatly organised "logistics unit"! It takes parts that are scattered on the floor and turns them into neatly organised "logistics units". Think about it:
- previously: Workers push trolleys all over the workshop and have to bend over 10 times to move a box of engine parts;
- present .: Pallets carrying parts run automatically on a conveyor line, with workers standing and pressing buttons.
The actual measured data from a car factory is even more alarming-After using pallets, the single handling volume has changed from 3 boxes to 12 boxes, and the loading and unloading time has been cut down directly by 60%.. And that's not even counting the hidden benefits of fewer workplace injuries and lower cargo losses!
🔧Second, the automobile factory combat: how to play the four major aspects of pallet conveying?
1. Receiving and warehousing: robots as "gatekeepers"
Audi's new energy plant in Changchun, directly on theFully automated black technology::
- Lorry unloading?Unmanned forkliftAutomatic fork picking of parts with pallets;
- QC inbound?Conveyor line + code scannerAutomatic recording of information sent into the stereo vault.
And the result?24-hour uninterrupted receipt of goods, efficiency soared 80%It also eliminates the oops of manually copying the wrong model number.
2. Wire-side feeding: as accurate as "delivery"
Shanghai, an auto parts factory can be chaotic before - more than 2,000 kinds of parts piled up next to the production line, the teacher to find parts have to turn over half a day. On thePalletised four-way cart system from Think Tank IntelligenceAfter:
- Parts are all present6 metre high compact shelvingmiles, saving 80% of ground space;
- Automatic picking with four-way cartsto the assembly station.3 minutes to complete a feeding cycle, correct 99.99%.
The best thing is - the work that used to take 8 skilled labourers + 5 forklift trucks is now3 Newbies Tap the Screen and You're DoneThe training cycle was reduced from six months to one week!
3. Finished goods out of storage: pallets directly "in the lift"
Bayer's German factories play more frugally -The pallet carries the goods all the way to the ground::
- Automatic palletising at the end of the production line;
- conveying linehoistStraight to the truck;
- the whole distanceZero forklift handlingEven the wrapping film is wrapped automatically.
With this, the loading speed is up to120 trays/hourIt also avoids the pain of forklift trucks crashing into the goods.
🚚Third, logistics warehouse metamorphosis: pallet system how to break through the efficiency ceiling?
1. Efficiency in loading and unloading: from "ants moving" to "whole consignment dumping"
Yunnan, a tobacco logistics centre in the past manual loading, 8 hours to finish a carload of goods, workers tired straight back. It was changed toFull pallet distributionAfter the model:
- Sorting line by shop orderDirect palletising of whole trays.;
- The forklift truck picks up the entire pallet at once and feeds it into the lorry;
- The loading speed soared from 200 to 800 pieces per hour.Trunk transport timeFrom 8 hours to 3 hours.
The chief's exact words, "Save enough time for the driver to have a hotpot before hitting the road!"
2. Storage density: warehouses "grow" out of thin air
The biggest headache of FMCG warehouses is bursting. A certain enterprise used a tough trick--Palletised dense storage + double depth racking::
- Shelves increased from 3 metres to12 metresThe pallets are stacked up to 8 storeys high;
- The same area is stuffed with more4 times the volumeThe cost of storage plummeted by 651 TP3T.
What's even better is that, in conjunction withRFID pallet labelsThe speed of finding goods is 10 times faster than a scanning gun, and you no longer need to rummage through boxes all over the warehouse!
3. Cross-plant flows: pallets become "shared chargers"
An auto parts factory in Chongqing playedPallet cycle sharing::
- Vendors deliver with pallets as standard;
- InterplantSmart Pallet with GPS, mobile phones check the location at any time;
- Automatic dispatch of empty pallets back upstream.Turnover rate increased from 1.2 to 3.5 times/day.
Cost per pallet usedDirect Drop 70%It is not a dream to save millions of dollars a year!
⚡️IV. Intelligence Plus: How else can pallet systems evolve in the future?
1. Foolproofing and error-proofing: pallets that "see the way" for themselves
Chemical giant Bayer's pallets come with aTemperature and humidity sensor + vibration monitoring, excessive temperatures in transit or violent collisions.Automatic alarm within 15 minutes, faster than the driver can call and report back.
2. Sinking computing power: pallets become "mobile computers"
A tech company came up withEdge Computing Pallet-Able to process data while delivering goods, with a local calculation speed of 200 times/second, making the response speed 10 times faster. Imagine: the pallet calculates the optimal path by itself, bypassing congested routes, and is more resourceful than human brain scheduling!
3. The green revolution: carbon reduction as "planting a forest"
Plato Tech's shared pallet pool, relying on a million turnovers.Carbon reduction in a year is equivalent to planting 200,000 trees. The future of bio-based material pallets, the carbon footprint will have to cut another 70%, environmental protection can also save costs!
💡Personal view: Don't let "automation" take the focus away!
After ten years of logistics planning, I've seen too many factories stepping on potholes--
- Don't go for drones right off the bat.: SMEs firstStandardised pallets + conveyor lines, much more real than a hard on AGV;
- Flexibility is more important than grandeur: The production line will be adjusted to selectExpandable modular conveyor system(e.g. reserved jacking connections);
- Beware of "orphan devices": the more bullish pallet system.No local after-sales team.It's also set up (a business lost millions in two days of downtime waiting for repairs).
In the final analysis, the essence of the pallet conveyor is not in the technology, but in the standardised unit to open up the logistics blockage, so that the flow of goods like water flow naturally.The next time you see a worker humming and hawing to move a load, think: isn't it time to give pallets a chance?
