
The installation at Industrias Cosmic consists of an automated warehouse with live channels and a picking station at the front, plus a conventional pallet racking warehouse
Industrias Cosmic reinvents its logistics centre to boost exports
Industrias Cosmic, founded in Barcelona in 1985, began as a family business manufacturing quality bathroom accessories. Fifteen years later, after establishing itself within the domestic market and starting to work internationally, it became the benchmark brand not only for accessories but also for bathroom furniture. The success of this new way of understanding bathroom space led the company to export more than 50% of its production and set up a presence on all five continents.
In view of this incessant and rapid growth, Industrias Cosmic commissioned Mecalux to improve its logistics centre, expanding its storage capacity and speeding up order picking to be able to keep up with the high pace of work already forecast in the short- and medium-term.
An automated warehouse 12.5 m high and 76 m long was installed, with two double depth aisles with capacity to store up to 3,674 pallets.
High and medium turnover (type A and B) products are stored in this warehouse, where a picking area has been set up at the front and 44 live pallet channels on the ground level of a lateral rack.
Each aisle is accessed by a stacker crane which is responsible for moving pallets from the main conveyor system to the location assigned by the Easy WMS warehouse management software. Incoming and outgoing processes in the warehouse are performed using a conveyor circuit that incorporates a pallet checkpoint. This checkpoint is used to check that the dimensions, weight and condition of the pallet meet the specifications of the installation.
Taking into consideration the continuous growth being experienced year after year by Industrias Cosmic, an area has been reserved next to the automated warehouse to expand storage capacity in the future.
Picking process
Picking is carried out in three different ways, which are complementary:
The consolidation of orders takes place in the area allocated for preloads, just in front of the conventional pallet racking. In this area, the operators verify, package and make labels for shipping orders. To complete the operation prep tables, computers and printers have been set up. Once fulfilled, orders are sent to the preload area located at the front of the loading docks.
Mecalux Easy WMS: warehouse management system
This powerful system works through multiple parametrisable rules and covers all the different operations that take place in a warehouse, from the entry of the product, then on to stock control and order picking, all the way to order dispatch.
The Easy WMS and the Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) have a permanent bidirectional connection in order to allow and facilitate the rest of the operations that take place outside the warehouse, which are essential to any business.
Automated warehouse Insdustrias Cosmic | |
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Automated warehouse capacity: | 3,674 pallets |
Pallet racking warehouse capacity: | 6,000 pallets |
Maximum pallet weight: | 800 kg |
No. of stacker cranes: | 2 |
Type of stacker crane: | single-mast |
Type of fork: | double depth |
Height of automated warehouse: | 12.5m |
Live channels for picking: | 44 |
Fixed station for picking: | 1 |
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