Flexible storage for steel specialist

The future-oriented system features three areas arranged around the actual high-rise storage system: prefabrication (cutting); commissioning; and truck route distribution. These are designed to fulfill the varied requirements of Carl Spaeter’s customers, from order receipt up to preparation for shipment via truck.

KASTO built a Honeycomb Storage System, type UNIOMPACT 3.0 with a length of almost 65m and a height of 12.6m with 3139 storage locations.

The cassettes have a usable width of 600mm and a usable height of 350mm and  offer space for many different materials with a length of up to 7m and a load of up to 3000kg per cassette.

The operating gantry crane has two cassette locations to ensure the KASTO-random access principle. Technologically-advanced drive technology together with the KASTO-System software allows a function- and time-optimised travel curve behavior for all moving sequences, enabling speeds up to 160m/min in longitudinal travel.

In the prefabrication stage six integrated saws (three bandsaws and three circular saws) take care of the cutting sequence of the customer orders. Material is delivered to separate longitudinal stations from which the single bars at the saw are prebuffered via crane. The distribution of the cutting orders on the saw takes place automatically depending on the cutting cross sections via SAP to the inventory control computer KASTOlvr and are displayed at the appropriate work station.

In the commissioning stage two rotary stations with three or four buffer locations ensure that the incoming orders can be processed as quickly as possible.

The distribution system transports the commissioned material automatically via 12 different truck route locations. The distribution takes place via a monorail system with transport traverse installed at the front side of the building. A load weight of up to 2t and a speed of maximum 160m/min allow fast and operator-free shipping preparation.