A technology package for maximum performance in stock keeping and logistics
DIGITAL WAREHOUSE stands for a technology package that ensures material flow monitoring and inventory management for steel producers and mining companies.
The system allows to make corrections, add logistic operations, do inventory balancing and plan requests for semi-finished products in real time
ID reading + warehouse mapping + machinery tracking = a digital twin of your warehouse
The System aims to ensure:
Availability of information
Control
Traceability
Reduced human factor
Information
Material tracking: Marking, sampling, dispatcher control and registration of warehouse operations, warehouse mapping, inventory monitoring, preparing data for data collection terminals
Cyber-Physical Function
Identification and tracking of warehouse machinery and stock items in physical space: Positioning of cranes, transfer cars, stock items; machine vision and other identification techniques
L4
L3
L2+
L2
L1
Cyber-physical platform - Парадигма (L2)
Information platform - MES.Builder (L3)
ИНКА 4.0 (L2+L3)
Siemens Logistics (L3) и WinCC OA (L2)
Wonderware AVEVA (L2+L3)
SAP EWM (L3)
Initial inspection
Preparation of a design assignment
Design work
Constraints (warehouse capacity, how items are stored)
Physical conditions
Options: Existing monitoring and shipping systems
Basic configuration: Hardware and software
Integration (with interfacing systems)
Online tracking of materials at the warehouse areas
Online search for material, faster shipping
The frequency of manual inventory checks can be reduced to two times a month
Jobs can be sent to crane operators in online mode
Automatic verification of the ID of a shipped product against the so-called shipping passport (security)
Consistency of shipping operations
Online generation of shipments with the current location displayed
Recognition of the IDs of transportation units and product IDs at control points
Product tracking on roller tables and conveyors, recognition of product IDs at control points. Acquisition of additional data from process control systems
Accurate positioning of cranes, determining the number of items being lifted and lowered, recognition of product IDs, acquisition of additional data about the crane status
Accurate positioning of transfer cars. Determining the number of items being transported, recognition of product IDs, acquisition of additional data about the transfer car status
Accurate/zonal positioning of railway cars on the dead-end track
Installing tag printers, marking machines, Tag Recovery Workstation. Developing the Tag Recovery Workstation functionality. Implementing necessary interlocks with the main process control system.
Installing video cameras, Video Surveillance Workstation.
Designing a server cluster (virtual machines) for the System
Acquisition of data from various process control systems, mathematical processing, data processing, integration with MES, data storage
Implementation of the Warehouse Manager Workstation functionality
Implementation of the Crane Operator Workstation functionality
Implementation of the Roller Table/Conveyor Operator Workstation functionality. Integration with the existing control systems.
Developing interfaces on the side of the existing MES systems of a production plant. Enhancing the functionality of the MES workstation, modifying the business processes, writing handlers for the Digital Warehouse data. Preparing data to be sent to the Digital Warehouse system.
Installing mobile terminals to collect warehouse data. Implementing the functionality of data collection terminals: linking items stored at the warehouse, doing inventory checks, viewing the product information, scanning tags, printing tags, checking in and scanning transportation units, linking products to transportation units.
Setting up wired and wireless process control networks at the warehouse premises
Acquisition of data for testing the Digital Warehouse system. Developing the Testing Workstation functionality