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In the wave of intelligent upgrading in the automotive industry, warehousing and logistics, as the core link of production and supply, directly affect the operational efficiency and market competitiveness of enterprises. With the increasing demand for supply chain management from downstream car companies, the automotive parts industry has turned its attention to the core link of production and supply - warehousing and logistics management, hoping to continuously improve the automation level of warehousing and logistics to meet the needs of higher delivery efficiency and quality traceability.

Project Background: Storage Upgrade Demands of Automotive Parts Enterprises

Recently, Zhongjian Intelligence has launched an intelligent three-dimensional warehouse project tailored for a certain auto parts enterprise in Anhui, successfully solving the pain points of traditional warehousing and achieving a dual breakthrough in warehousing automation and production collaboration through an integrated solution. The client company has been deeply involved in the auto parts industry for many years, and the newly added workshop mainly supplies key components such as bumpers, interior panel assemblies, and auxiliary instrument assemblies to car companies such as Changan and NIO. It needs to store raw materials and finished car bumpers synchronously on a daily basis. Previously, traditional stacking storage was used, and the variety of materials involved made it time-consuming and labor-intensive to find and pick goods. The warehousing team of more than 10 people still struggled to meet the demand for efficient turnover. Therefore, customers urgently need an intelligent warehousing system that can "save space, improve efficiency, and reduce labor costs", connect the data flow between production and warehousing, and keep up with the pace of industry intelligent upgrading.

Key and difficult points of the project: precise breakthroughs under multiple challenges

1. Multi specification compatibility challenge: The material warehouse needs to be compatible with up to 10 different specifications and sizes of material trucks, ranging in volume from 2.1m ³ to 23.9m ³, with significant differences. Therefore, a large amount of data collection and analysis work must be carried out before the planning and design stage to ensure that the size design of the shelf storage space and the parameters such as the load capacity and gripping accuracy of the stacker crane can accurately match the needs of different specifications of material trucks.

2. Collaboration and Scalability of Two Warehouses: The pallet warehouse and material warehouse need to achieve collaborative operation, efficient material flow, and reserve 30% expansion space to cope with the possible increase in material types and storage needs in the future.

3. System integration and on-site limitations: WMS control module needs to be integrated and integrated with the customer's existing MES system to achieve real-time synchronization of inventory data and intelligent scheduling of job tasks; And the on-site space is limited, and the linkage debugging of multiple devices (stacker cranes, AGVs, conveyors) is complex, requiring seamless connection between each link.

Solution: Customized intelligent warehousing system

The project workshop warehouse area covers an area of about 3000 square meters, with a floor height of about 13 meters. The intelligent engineering team of Zhongjian conducted on-site surveys and created an integrated solution of "stacker crane elevated three-dimensional warehouse+AGV transportation" based on multiple factors such as warehouse space layout, ground load-bearing capacity, overall efficiency, and operating costs

Hardware configuration: Fully utilize the upward space and build a 12 meter high elevated three-dimensional warehouse, including more than 1700 storage spaces (1280 storage spaces in the material warehouse and 576 storage spaces in the pallet warehouse) to meet current production capacity and reserve expansion space; Configure 4 aisle stacker cranes and 4 AGVs (2 toothed and 2 hidden) to achieve automatic transfer of goods to people.

System integration: Customize and develop WMS/WCS core algorithms to adapt to the high-frequency and small batch inventory characteristics of the automotive parts industry, seamlessly integrate with MES systems, and achieve real-time synchronization of inventory data and intelligent scheduling of job tasks.

Early stage guarantee: The project team conducted on-site precise measurements of 10 types of material truck dimensions and load-bearing parameters, simulated the operation trajectory of the stacker crane and the shelf access process through 3D modeling, optimized the layout of storage locations and equipment selection, and ensured efficient adaptation throughout the entire process.

Customer benefits: Warehouse upgrade drives efficiency improvement across the entire chain

1. Significant reduction in labor costs: After the project was implemented, the number of warehouse workers was reduced from over 10 to 2-3, resulting in a direct decrease of over 70% in labor costs.

2. Significant improvement in turnover efficiency: The efficiency of inbound and outbound inventory has increased by 3-4 times, and the inventory accuracy rate has reached 99.9%, completely eliminating production line downtime caused by material mismatch.

3. Production collaboration upgrade: Real time linkage between WMS and MES systems, precise matching of production planning and warehousing distribution, avoiding logistics delays or excessive stocking issues, and overall operational efficiency jumping to the upper level of the industry.

From traditional stacked warehousing to intelligent automation management, Zhongjian Intelligent has been deeply involved in the automotive industry for many years with its professional intelligent warehousing system solution technology and efficient and reliable services. It has served top customers such as FAW, SAIC, Great Wall, BYD, etc. The intelligent warehousing logistics system overall solution specially designed for their supply chain partners has also received unanimous praise from customers. The successful implementation of this project once again confirms the customized delivery capability of Zhongjian Intelligence in complex industrial scenarios, adding replicable benchmark samples for the intelligent transformation of the automotive parts manufacturing field.