Robots ensure a consistently
high, certified standard of
quality in cassette production.
On-Site Production of Industrial
Warehouse Cassettes is Economical
and Environmentally Friendly
Kasto, the German manufacturer of computer controlled, multi-level
systems for automatically storing and retrieving material in stockholding
operations and factories, has introduced a new service whereby it will
produce parts of its Unicompact system at the customer’s premises. The
only prerequisites are sufficient space, a crane and a 400 volt, three-phase
electricity supply. On-site production is available in the UK and Ireland
through Kasto’s subsidiary in Milton Keynes.
The service is carried out within the user’s
warehouse area and involves the supplier’s
engineers assembling and robotically welding
the box-shaped cassettes in which bar,
tube or other long stock will be contained.
Transporting flat sheet metal avoids having
to move large amounts of fresh air by lorry,
as is the case if the items are preassembled,
reducing the cost of delivery and lowering the
environmental impact through fewer vehicle
journeys.
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The option is economically viable for medium- to
large-capacity storage systems. As the cassettes are
manufactured next to the warehouse structure that
will contain them, the customer can start using them
immediately they are ready and can even procure the
raw materials to save even more cost. Moreover, the
user constantly has a first hand, real time overview of
how the project is progressing.
One of the first companies to use the new concept
was Vereinigte Baustoff- und Eisen GmbH (VBE) in