TPT July 2019

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Kasto Maschinenbau GmbH & Co KG

The WMS maps all the processes between goods receipt and dispatch clearly and transparently, ensuring efficient control of the entire material flow – and that includes the warehouse, the associated conveyor technology and the processing machines with their material handling. The software optimises processes in and around the warehouse, making intralogistics faster and more reliable and efficient. It makes the travel routes of storage and retrieval machines more efficient by avoiding empty runs and placing items that are needed more often closer to storage and retrieval stations than the items that are not often required. KASTOlogic has even more efficient and user- friendly functions, like the management of orders, batches, remaining parts and first cuts. There is also a permanent inventory that allows you to flexibly apply different in-out strategies and picking principles. Comprehensive statistics and analysis tools monitor the utilisation of the entire system and individual components. This allows the potential of intralogistics to be fully exploited, avoiding superfluous routes and unnecessary waiting times. Possible changes can also be simulated in advance and tried out without risk.

The KASTOlogic WMS system maps all processes between goods receipt and dispatch clearly and transparently, ensuring the efficient control of the entire material flow

Storage systems, connected conveyor technology and processing machines with the associated material handling can be uniformly controlled and managed with KASTOlogic

The sawing process itself also runs autonomously if the machine is equipped accordingly, resulting in efficient systems that are integrated into a continuous material flow – the intelligent factory.

From the raw material to the finished par t Kasto Maschinenbau is a supplier of Industry 4.0 solutions for metalworking. The company creates combined storage- sawing-robot systems for its customers, in which all the storage, handling, sawing, marking, palletising and bundling processes are performed automatically, from the raw material to the commissioning of the cut parts. Problem-free communication is particularly important, since all the components involved must “speak the same language”. This is achieved by means of integrated control systems and suitable interfaces. With KASTOlogic, for example, Kasto offers a modular warehouse management system (WMS), which is specially tailored to the requirements of long goods and sheet metal storage.

In the intelligent factory, all processes are integrated into a continuously controlled material flow. The components involved communicate autonomously with each other via the Internet of Things

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