Storage and retrieval machines
Modular storage system
The manufacturer Extor is expanding its modular storage system to include storage and retrieval machines.
Extor from Hanover is expanding its business field. The company wants to grow with its RoverLog storage and retrieval machines. Storing large-volume goods in a space-saving, automated, flexible and cost-effective way in the smallest of spaces was the basic idea back in the year the company was founded, and it still underpins the business concept today. The RoverLog system was introduced as an alternative to conventional storage and picking infrastructure for tires. Previously, tyres had to be transported to their destination on conveyor belts or picked using forklifts, but the idea of a more efficient storage system soon emerged.
The system was later expanded and made compatible for goods other than tires. The rovers transport the goods from picking ports to the storage locations. Inlays made of cardboard boxes allow the storage and transportation of all kinds of goods. Large-volume goods can be stored automatically and cost-effectively in a small space and made available again at a desired location according to the goods-to-man principle. The order picker does not have to move from his place. The picking ports are just as much a part of the storage system as the load-carrying structure: a kind of rail network runs underneath the storage locations, on which trolleys move at a speed of up to 2.4 meters per second and through which they receive their power. The resulting braking and kinetic energy is reused by means of recuperation.
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