Step-by-step expansion - yet integrated control: The Swiss logistics service provider is taking the lead in terms of quality and availability with the latest standard in fully automated high-bay warehouses for frozen and dry goods.
Turnkey construction of a fully automated deep-freeze high-bay warehouse and a high-bay warehouse for dry goods
Deep-freeze high-bay warehouse with 9,200 pallet spaces with four MASTer storage and retrieval machines and high-bay warehouse for dry goods with over 26,000 pallet spaces and nine MASTer-RGB, including delivery and installation of the conveyor lines
System solution with maximum availability, comprehensive ergonomics and maximum process reliability with optimized operating costs
System designed for maximum availability and highest performance (10 hours/day; 5 days/week); storage and retrieval capacity of up to 220 pallets per hour; all safety-relevant control functions are stored in the material flow computer
Galliker Transport AG is a third-generation family business. Since its foundation in 1918, the company has developed from a regional one-man operation into an internationally active logistics service provider with 3,500 employees in 21 branches and 6 countries throughout Europe.
Energy and environmentally friendly infrastructures are important for Galliker. The ideal location of the company headquarters in Dagmersellen in terms of transport links was therefore used to initially expand the range of services in the fresh and frozen products and healthcare logistics business areas. And two years later to add a warehouse for dry products based on the same model but almost three times the size.
Stoecklin was the partner for both significant growth steps with which Galliker Transport wanted to meet the growing demand in the frozen and dry product segment.
In 2015, Stoecklin built a four-aisle deep-freeze high-bay warehouse with 9,200 pallet storage locations for Galliker Transport AG and supplied four MASTer series storage and retrieval machines. Stoecklin also installed the entire conveyor technology lines, including distribution carts, lifting equipment and elevator systems.
Right from the start, the chosen system solution was able to fully meet all requirements in terms of availability, ergonomics, process and work safety, while at the same time keeping operating costs moderate. Once the logistics concept had been developed, it was brought back to life without any significant modifications, following the example of its 'smaller brother'.
Capacities for dry goods - such as chocolate, pasta and canned goods - were significantly increased in 2017. The nine-aisle high-bay warehouse comprises over 26,100 new pallet spaces. The nine storage and retrieval machines from the MASTer series achieve travel speeds of up to 2.5 m/s and lifting speeds of up to 0.63 m/s at peak times.
Other central components are the infeed and outfeed transport system, transfer carriages, multi-station conveyors, rope lifting devices, pallet labeling systems as well as high-speed doors and airlocks, which reliably separate the special environments (deep-freeze, fire protection). Lifts are used to transport load carriers to the workstations for order picking and customer-specific packaging and labeling. A new material flow computer (MFR) visualizes the system status in real time.
The fully expanded, fully automated ambient and deep-freeze high-bay warehouse in Dagmersellen on the border with Altishofen went into operation on schedule in August 2017. The system, which is divided into three climate zones and designed for maximum availability and performance, operates under high load ten hours a day, five days a week. At peak times, a storage and retrieval capacity of 220 pallets per hour is possible across the entire system.
The successful project partnership between Galliker and Stoecklin in food and pharmaceutical logistics covers a temperature range of minus 26° degrees in the deep-freeze high-bay warehouse and +10° degrees to +16° degrees in the fresh food and ambient area. The high-bay warehouses, storage and retrieval machines, conveyor systems and software solutions offer the highest level of quality assurance, product safety and occupational safety. The system solutions from Stoecklin strengthen the range of services and growth of Galliker Transport AG as one of the leading logistics service providers in Switzerland.
