Core Shop Logistics & Smart Storage
Machines cut fast; core shops lose their time between machines. We design the material flow of the whole core shop – automated storage, RGV shuttles, stacker cranes and AGVs moving coils, strips and laminations from truck dock to stacking bay without a forklift queue.
One flow, dock to stacking bay
A reference layout from one of our engineered core shops – every shop is planned around your machines, volumes and building.
Master coils arrive by truck, unloaded by crane to the coil yard and de-packing area beside the slitting line.
Slit strip coils go straight into a strip ASRS – a reference build holds 424 locations, roughly 1,200-1,500 strip coils, zoned by transformer rating with FIFO rotation.
Stacker crane hands strip coils to a rail-guided shuttle; loading carts mount them on the cut-to-length decoilers. Leftover coils return to storage or a line-side buffer – loading never blocks unloading.
Cut laminations circulate through a 7-level buffer store into half core-limb stacks – the CTL line never waits for take-off.
A 5 t stacker crane files limb stacks into a 90-location core ASRS; a turnover station flips stacks that must stack tip-down.
AGVs deliver limb stacks to powered platforms at the stacking stations; empty pallets flow back to the CTL take-off automatically.
Storage hardware, built to crane standards
Stacker cranes locate by barcode on the lift axis and laser ranging on travel – repeatable to ±5 mm at full height.
Telescopic forks are servo-driven rack-and-pinion; tip deflection under 5 mm at full load and reach, verified by finite-element analysis.
Linked-automatic, single-machine and manual modes with full electrical and mechanical interlocks between travel, hoist and fork.
Storage software tracks every coil and stack by rating and width, enforces first-in-first-out, and talks to the line scheduling system.
Technical datasheet (PDF)
Two pages: headline specs, full parameters, standard and optional configuration, FAT and service scope. Version Core-Shop-Logistics_SRWL-SRLK_EN_RevA_2026-08
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