Industry: Beverages

PILSNER URQUELL

Industry: Beverages

Flexible storage capacity expansion & gradual integration into production

For Pilsner Urquell (CZ-Pilsen), we implemented an automated high-bay warehouse with a connecting electric floor conveyor for production and shipping. As a particular challenge, the storage capacity was increased in two stages at different times.
To this end, the existing racking aisles were extended during ongoing operations in phase II.
The production facilities were also fully integrated into the automated material flow over several construction stages.
Everything is centrally managed and orchestrated by the System Logistics Software Suite.

Task: Increase production capacity and centralize logistics at an established location.

Solution: High-bay warehouse (silo, double depth) + electric floor conveyor to connect goods receipt, production & shipping + gradual expansion of storage capacity by extending the storage aisles + step-by-step connection of the production lines, including automated truck loading + central WCS.

KPIs: 41.500 storage spaces, high-bay warehouse 42m high, · ≈390 pallets/hour, electric floor conveyor, automatic truck loading

Pallet trucks from System Logistics transport beverage crates on a rail system to the high-bay warehouse.

Employee checks data on a screen connected to the logistics system from System Logistics.

High-bay warehouse from System Logistics, several loaded pallets are transported into the warehouse via the rail system

System Logistics employee looks at tablet with control software for intralogistics and AGV systems

Fully loaded pallet packed and ready for pickup for shipping, arrived at the end of the rail system

Goods issue, many packed pallets ready for loading onto trucks, forklift drivers transport the pallets through gates into the trucks.

AGVs loaded with pallets on the rail system transport the pallets to the high-bay warehouse from System Logistics.

Many packaged pallets at the end of the conveyor belts ready for shipping

Forklift transfers packaged pallet onto conveyor belt for automated storage

Display for shipping information, with a blurred part of a pallet in the foreground