Warehouse Automation for Manufacturing

Warehouse automation is the key to more competitiveness in manufacturing because the production of the future is intelligent, flexible and interconnected. Our efficient solutions optimize your production supply and internal transport processes.

Intelligent production logistics for increased performance

An intelligent production logistics system, finely tuned, plays a central role in keeping manufacturers competitive when contending with the sector’s typical challenges. New approaches are required to succeed in the face of changing environmental and market conditions, skilled labor shortages, a lack of space and ever-increasing complexity. Here, warehouse automation is the key to increasing your company’s performance.

Looking for dynamic, highly interconnected systems with security of investment and maximum flexibility as requirements change? Our warehouse automation solutions are ready to boost quality, profitability, efficiency and ergonomics in your company’s operations. With new approaches and a mix of innovative and proven technologies, we are opening up new opportunities for the manufacturing sector. Our mission:

Understanding your business so our solutions provide the added plus in flexibility to your processes.

Stefan Lechner und Christian Brauneis. Vice Presidents der Business Unit Industry von KNAPP.

Do you have any questions? We are always glad to help you!

Stefan Lechner & Christian Brauneis
Vice Presidents Business Unit Industry
Email: kin.sales@knapp.com

“Process reliability is crucial for production, which is at the heart of every company, so we see it as our mission to develop the best possible solutions using our expertise. By using innovative technologies and intelligent software, processes are interconnected, optimally meshing and designed for high adaptability. With our all-in-one solutions, we make smart production a reality.“

Christian Brauneis
Vice President Business Unit Industry

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Solutions for warehouse automation in manufacturing

Automated storage systems: Warehouse automation for manufacturing

Automated storage systems for efficient production processes

Whether automated small parts warehouses, stacker cranes or buffer towers, we have the optimal logistics solution for every requirement. Our storage systems support processes such as picking, buffering, sequencing of both goods and orders as well as supplying work stations. Find out more about our smart solutions:

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Automated picking systems: Warehouse automation for manufacturing

Automated storage and picking system for higher performance

The automated storage and picking system InduStore is an ideal solution for industrial applications, especially for stockpiling individual items, supplying production or storing spare parts. Discover more about the system:

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Ergonomic, intelligent work stations

Our work stations combine ergonomics, efficiency and quality. They utilize the goods-to-person principle, which means optimal order processing and satisfied employees. Work stations combined with an intelligent camera system ensure end-to-end quality control. Find out more about our products:

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Automated mobile robots for increased flexibility

Our intelligent automated mobile robots allow you to design your logistics processes flexibly. They automate internal transport and efficiently connect different production areas.
Find out more about our autonomous mobile robots (AMRs):

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Software for warehouse automation

The heart of any warehouse automation is its software. As a value chain tech partner, we offer all-in-one software solutions, intelligent fleet control software, resource planning software and much more. We cover processes with our KiSoft and SAP® EWM by KNAPP product lines as needed.
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The gains for production logistics

Automating production logistics offers manufacturers many advantages:

Efficient processes

Efficient processes are crucial to a competitive, profitable company. Optimized stock management stores more in less space, and makes processes faster and more efficient, leading to the smoothest possible delivery processing. We help you lower costs and optimize your stock management and internal transport.

Intelligent integration

Smart software is the key to smart production, and increasingly complex processes and structures require comprehensive software expertise. We offer a comprehensive software package to intelligently integrate all of your processes, with the goal of ensuring the performance, efficiency and transparency of your entire supply chain.

Perfectly timed production supply

Our solutions supply your assembly lines and work stations as needed and provide the required components in the right sequence, in the right quantity, and at the right time. For this, we offer the OSR Shuttle Evo+, a combination of our intelligent automated storage system and autonomous mobile robots.

Integration into existing infrastructure

In manufacturing, time and space are limiting factors. To minimize production downtime, changes to the physical system must be planned optimally. Our technologies can be space-effectively integrated into the existing infrastructure during on-going operation; our AMRs are installed without construction.

Flexibility for process changes and growth

Increasing customization and customer orientation are increasing product variety, which in turn affects production logistics. Production is more often characterized by changeable production cells that have to be linked with each other. Our systems are flexible, adaptable and scalable, and can handle a variety of load carrier types.

Error-free production and the best possible quality

Our innovative technologies provide error-free production and assembly, where quality assurance is automated and integrated into production. Errors and imprecision in production come with long-term consequences, which is why our intelligent ergonomically designed work stations have integrated image processing to fully support the zero-error strategy of your company.

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Our solutions for warehouse automation in manufacturing

Companies around the globe depend on collaboration with KNAPP. We help you optimize your production processes, storage space and in-house transport. Our solutions speak for themselves:

Terberg, industrial warehouse automation, shuttle storage system

Terberg Benschop B.V.: New solution creates basis for future company growth

To handle the increasing number of orders, several processes at Terberg Benschop B.V. were centralized in one automated storage system. Picking orders are fulfilled for manufacturing, the assembly line, or for the shipping of spare parts. Supply is as needed and just in time.

OSR Shuttle Evo+: a combination of automatic storage system and autonomous mobile robots.

Magna Spiegelsysteme: Optimizing supply to production and assembly

Thanks to the automated solution by KNAPP, Magna achieved faster availability of parts, a reduction in internal transport and hands-free warehouse operation. The foundation for all of this is the multifunctional shuttle system combined with autonomous mobile robots.

Fronius, warehouse automation, AMR, pallet transport

Fronius: AMRs provide flexible, automated pallet transport for production supply

The innovative Open Shuttle Fork has automated production supply and internal transport at Fronius. The new solution gives the company the necessary autonomy to flexibly make changes as needed and to manage both manual and automatic transport orders in the same system.

Case Study Terberg B.V. >

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Knorr Bremse, warehouse automation, small parts warehouse, work stations, conveyor system

Knorr-Bremse: Process optimization thanks to customized system

Knorr-Bremse increased the performance of their small-parts warehouse by a factor of three. This was made possible by a multifunctional shuttle system combined with picking work stations and a conveyor system mounted to the ceiling. Discover more about the solution and how it efficiently covers the various processes.

ivii smartdesk assembly work station combined with an automated small parts warehouse at Pankl.

Pankl Racing AG: Zero-error strategy covers all production processes

An automated small parts warehouse supplies Pankl’s assembly work stations according to the goods-to-person principle. Modern image recognition and processing technologies check each step of work, which results in error-free assembly and seamless traceability. Pankl’s manufacturing logistics is a textbook case in smart production.

Würth, warehouse automation, small parts warehouse, robotics, AMR

Würth: Intelligent automation in logistics

Würth is using the very latest robot technologies at their warehouse. These technologies fully automate logistical processes ranging from storage to picking and shipping, including internal transport. We have partnered with Würth for many years, continually developing the technologies they use.

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Our solutions for warehouse automation in industry

Companies around the globe depend on collaboration with KNAPP. We help you optimize your production processes, storage space and in-house transport. Our solutions speak for themselves:

Terberg Benschop B.V.: New solution creates basis for future company growth

Case Study Terberg B.V. >

Magna Spiegelsysteme: Optimizing supply to production and assembly

Case Study Magna Spiegelsysteme >

Fronius: AMRs provide flexible, automated pallet transport for production supply

Case Study Fronius >

For Terberg, opting for an automated solution was a major step. It was especially important for us to work with a supplier who has successfully implemented their systems around the globe and who also offers local support and servicing.

Alexander Kühne

Supply Manager, Terberg Benschop

Our solution also allows small load carriers to be supplied to a tugger train station directly from the shuttle system in the exact sequence, and to be automatically transferred to this station or to autonomous mobile robots. This way, nothing stands in the way of smart production.

Stefan Lechner

Vice President, KNAPP Industry Solutions

The Open Shuttles supply the production lines automatically and the OSR Shuttle system operates automatically without personnel.

Anita Kopinja

Deputy Executive Director, Magna Spiegelsysteme GmbH

We decided to work with KNAPP because the new automation solution allowed us to make changes independently and flexibly when needed. This makes us faster and more cost-efficient in our overall operations.

Peter Hubl

Team Leader, Logistics Automation Maintenance, Fronius International GmbH

Thanks to the new system, we could significantly improve the transit time between picking and shipping, increasing efficiency. Overall, we increased our performance in the small parts warehouse by a factor of three and significantly reduced costs.

Jörg Branschädel

Managing Director, Knorr-Bremse GmbH

Above all, our customers need components to be made available at the right time and supplied in the right sequence. The Evo Shuttle storage system ensures exact sequencing directly from the system at full capacity.

Christian Brauneis

Vice President, KNAPP Industry Solutions

Pankl has achieved a new level in production when it comes to the fundamental interconnection of all manufacturing processes, data on quality, operating data and assembly data – from the blank to the finished part. We achieve a high level of transparency and traceability and, therefore, high efficiency in processing. We have certainly created a best-practice application for integrating production in a network.

Christoph Prattes

COO, Pankl Racing AG

KNAPP is a partner with whom we can talk on equal terms. Together, we consider the demands facing us in our markets and use them to develop new concepts by adapting existing technologies and developing new ones.

Helmut Eisenkolb

Head of Logistics, holder of general commercial power of attorney and member of the management team, Würth Industrie Service

Global service network and reliable partner

Our International Customer Service looks after your logistics system – around the globe, around the clock, 365 days a year.
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