Packaging
Krones intralogistics for the beverage industry
Wednesday 26. November 2008 - Intra-plant logistics is increasingly being recognised as a core process in production facilities. Krones took this trend on board at an early stage, and is able to offer users cost-efficient solutions for this exacting application as well.
When it comes to logistics, or more precisely intralogistics, Krones provides all-inclusive concepts, utilising standard vendors for individual components of the overall system. This means that as a neutral integrator with a holistic approach to systems engineering, the company can provide every client with a material flow solution individually customised to his own particular needs. To arrive at the appropriate solution, Krones utilises both machinery manufactured in-house and outsourced systems, which are then combined to for, an optimised overall systems for the client concerned, controlled by Krones own IT. Krones is already planning and building plant complete beverage factories, holistically incorporating the warehousing and material flow technologies involved. The groups global presence means that clients all over the world can expect optimum support.
Since Krones premiered its intralogistical capabilities back in 2000, numerous sophisticated warehouse projects have been implemented for prestigious clients – block-type warehouse management, lift-truck control and fully automated high-bay warehouse systems. The projects completed constitute strategic investments in the future survival of the facilities involved, enabling the logistical requirements concerned to be handled with minimised staffing levels or creating a necessary upsizing of warehousing capacity and additional process acceleration. The intralogistical solutions from Krones, thanks to the warehouse management system provided, ensure enhanced transparency for the warehouse and processes involved. Systems of this kind are essential if the increasingly complex warehousing processes of the future are to be effectively mastered and efficiently handled.
For Krones and the clients concerned, intralogistics constitutes a definitely fruitful horizontal expansion of the firms corporate capabilities, with warehousing technology being integrated into all-inclusive job packages, all the way up to the construction of entire factories. Because intralogistics is an up-to-the-future issue for all bottling plants.