New thrust by automating a logistics centre.
For a number of years economy has been changing and the pace of change is consistently increasing. Just as the society as a whole, economy has to face numerous changes as well. These changes confront companies with new challenges. When searching for tomorrow’s economic conditions science has looked into many of the ongoing trends and bundled them into the so called mega-trends. These are the trends that will have sustainable effects on the economy at the same time shaping it as they materialise. Some of these factors that cause fundamental changes are globalisation, urbanisation, demographic change, energy efficiency, sustainability and rapidly developing technical progress. Knowing about these trends bears a chance for companies to react early to such changes and maintain a competitive position in the future. The importance of automated intralogistics processes has been increasing dramatically in the recent past.
STILL has recognised this development at an early stage and is by now known as a specialist for automated standard trucks. Opposed to makers of conventional driverless transport systems, STILL automates its own standard trucks. After automating these trucks they can be operated automatically as well as manually by a driver (dual use). In this STILL is unique. The modification of standard trucks offers a solution to customers who are looking for an automatic system, but still want to maintain their flexibility to be able to react at short notice to changing work requirements.
STILL has already implemented automating concepts for a number of different industries. A recent example from the food industry is the diary Heideblume in Elsdorf. This year the company concentrated its external delivery warehouses to an automated central logistics centre.