Packaging
Krones intralogistics for the beverage industry
Tuesday 11. November 2008 - Intra-plant logistics are increasingly recognised as a core process in production facilities. Krones AG, Neutraubling, Germany, the technological leader on the global market for beverage filling technology, took this trend on board at a early stage and is able to offer users cost-efficient solutions for these sophisticated applications.
Krones nowadays has proven corporate capabilities in process engineering, filling, packaging and logistics, with IT playing an increasingly vital role. In the field of logistics, or to be more precise intralogistics, Krones offers holistically inclusive concepts, utilising established standard vendors for individual components of the system. As a neutral integrator with a holistically conceived complete-system approach, the company is thus able to customise an optimum material flow solution to suit each clients own individual needs. To create the responsively customised solution, Krones machines manufactured in-house are integrated, but outsourced systems are used as well, combined to create a holistically harmonised system optimally tailored to the clients needs and controlled by Krones own IT. Krones already plans and builds complete beverage factories, including the warehousing and material flow technologies involved. Thanks to our global presence, our clients all over the world can count on optimally responsive support.
Since Krones premiered its intralogistical capabilities back in 2000, numerous sophisticated warehousing projects have been completed for prestigious clients – block-type warehouse management, lift-truck control and fully automated high-bay warehousing systems. The projects concerned constitute strategic investments in the future and the continued existence of the facilities involved. They help to ensure that the logistical requirements are met with minimised staffing or provide the requisite upsizing of the clients warehousing capabilities, speeding up his processes still further. With the warehouse management system provided, intralogistical systems from Krones provide enhanced transparency for the warehousing operation and the processes involved. Only with a system of this kind can the increasingly complex warehousing processes of the future be effectively mastered and efficiently handled.
On Krones stand at the ProMat 2009, visitors will be able to view the firms performance capabilities in the field of intralogistics: highlights include a fully automated warehouse and a fully automatic order-picking system for the beverage industry. Warehousing and order-picking technologies, plus some striking computer animations, will vividly communicate the world of Krones complete-system solutions for intralogistical applications.
For Krones and its clients, intralogistics signifies a highly appropriate horizontal expansion of the firms corporate capabilities, integrating warehousing technology into holistically conceived job packages, including the construction of complete factories. Because at all bottling plants intralogistics is a vital issue for a successful future.