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FKI Logistex Updates Horizontal Carousel Line
April 22, 2005 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
KENILWORTH, N.J. — FKI Logistex has upgraded its horizontal carousel line with new software and hardware improvements, offering increased flexibility in the design, specification and maintenance of the systems, and providing an enhanced set of operating controls. These carousels are typically used for product picking in warehouse- and distribution-center operations, and in buffering applications for manufacturing operations.
Software improvements include modifications to the FKI Logistex SpectrumPlus warehouse-control system software, designed to maximize and optimize carousel control. Streamlined reporting, improved processing speed and new inventory management functions reportedly now provide better control of the carousel induction process, carousel inventories and product replenishment. Hardware enhancements include a new standardized track design, which enables use of different-sized product shelves on the same carousel track, and offers increased flexibility in the product mix that can be assigned to a single carousel. Additional hardware changes include the replacement of DC drives with AC drives, and the use of non-proprietary controls. Customers can now specify commercial, off-the-shelf control hardware.
These horizontal carousels are generally configured for a single operator to pick from a pod configuration of two, three or four carousels under software control. In this type of configuration, these carousel systems are said to yield significantly higher throughputs, productivity, order accuracy, service levels and space savings. Ideal applications include automotive spare parts, electronics manufacturing, medical and military supplies and document handling.