Warehouse automation for electronics manufacturing

It includes coordinated storage, transport and information processes: storing materials, preparing orders, supplying the line and updating inventory. We define the automation scope for your project.

We recommend defining a limited initial scope: for example, one storage area and one supplied line, the associated transactions and clear acceptance criteria. We assess staged expansion against the selected systems.

Compare current searching, picking, transport and stock-correction effort with the planned process. Include investment, integration, operation and maintenance in the same calculation. A generic payback period would not be reliable without your operating data.

Many variants and small batches create frequent changeovers, partial quantities and returns to stock. Planning should therefore consider order changes and reels needed at the same time, alongside total inventory. We recommend comparing a typical production mix with a peak-demand scenario: which materials must be ready when, which remain on the setup trolley and which return to storage?

FAT is factory acceptance testing; SAT is site acceptance testing. Agree test cases using actual packages: putaway, picking, returns, blocked stock and inventory reconciliation. At the site, include the real interfaces, routes and handovers. An unreadable label, an occupied handover station and recovery after an interruption should also be part of the agreed test plan.