After about a year’s worth of construction, the new ZKW logistics center at Wieselburg is now in operation. The highly automated warehouse system on the site of a former car park guarantees a fast and efficient supply of materials for the entire production site. The fully automated flow of goods from receipt to the assembly line saves time and costs
Additional assembly lines have been connected to the new system each week since the middle of last month; the goal is to have all 28 production lines linked to the logistics centre by the first quarter of next year. The smart warehouse not only provides additional storage capacity, but also clears up former storage areas to be used as new production space. ZKW’s General Plant Manager Stefan Hauptmann says “in the future the entire flow of goods—from receipt to manufacturing—will be fully automated and will include no extra steps to move goods into or out of storage. Now it takes just 15 minutes from the time materials are ordered on the assembly line to the time the required parts arrive”.
