This Tier 1 manufacturer needed an efficient system to manage full and empty seat sets. This system must enable continuous operational flow while ensuring accurate storage, buffering, sorting, sequencing, and transportation based on the specific seat types. Empty and loaded seat sets needed to be stored efficiently to save space. Sequencing, staging, and storing seat sets with minimal labor was important. 100% accuracy with razor thin deadlines is mission critical.
This Tier 1 manufacturer needed an efficient system to manage full and empty seat sets. This system must enable continuous operational flow while ensuring accurate storage, buffering, sorting, sequencing, and transportation based on the specific seat types. Empty and loaded seat sets needed to be stored efficiently to save space. Sequencing, staging, and storing seat sets with minimal labor was important. 100% accuracy with razor thin deadlines is mission critical.
ISD was selected based on its ability to clearly define, tailor, and integrate the system for this tier 1 manufacturer. Working closely together to define seat sets storage, material flow, each item’s verification, throughput, staging requirements, and shipment details were completed for both today’s requirements and future ones. This comprehensive information guided the selection of necessary equipment to establish a reliable and robust system tailored for the supplier’s specific needs.
ISD created a solution to decouple the supplier build schedule from the customer’s varying production schedule and rate. A dedicated empty seat set receiving/storage conveyor was introduced to manage incoming seat set stacks. These stacks progressed to a robot station, where they underwent unstacking. ISD integrated a high-speed ASRS to store and sequence the seat assemblies to provide accurate and Just- in-Time delivery to the plant. The ASRS used an efficient 3 lane Mid-Load crane and aisle system that stored 1160 seat sets with an impressive throughput of 384 seat sets per hour.
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