For Compact Warehouses with Shuttle Technology
Steel Racks in Automated Warehouses
In SMB’s Automated Pallet Warehouses, you will not find drive-in racks, flow racks, pallet-sliding or mobile racks. For our Pallet Shuttle Systems, , we build steel racks based on the channel storage principle. In the central aisle between the pallet racks, grates and tracks on each level serve as the road network for our fully automatic truck shuttles. The pallet shuttles operate on all levels and use rails to store the load carriers, utilizing the full depth of the pallet racks.
SMB turns storage centers with drive-in racks, flow racks, automated small parts warehouses, and picking systems into fully automated logistics centers.
The different storage systems all have different features, especially when it comes to how the individual racks are arranged, relative to each other, and whether or not the use of ground-level vehicles or automated storage and retrieval systems is possible.
Traditional drive-in racks for forklifts or flow racks with roller conveyors are widely used in modern warehouses, for instance, for picking goods or preparing goods for dispatch. When storing larger volumes, moving or sliding racks are often used, which are moved on rails or with shuttle cars to consolidate the pallet racks.
Here, fully automated channel storage with truck shuttles offers a less expensive alternative and speeds up the removal of goods from the pallet racks.