Fittings firm elevates its warehouse operations
Flanagan Fittings invests in Ireland’s largest Modula machines
As business has grown in recent years, Flanagan Fittings felt it was important to focus on improving certain areas of the company while making additional plans for the future.
The furniture fittings company have recently installed two Modula vertical lift machines in their warehouse in St Margarets, Co Dublin.
Modula is an automated storage and retrieval system used to optimise space and improve warehouse management. The Modula simulates the movement of a lift. The operator uses the Copilot to call the goods to be picked up, the Modula knows which tray to find the various items in and delivers those trays directly to the bay, ready for pick-up.
An LED bar lights up with the product code and quantity to be picked directly above the product location and there is also a laser that points to the compartment to pick from ensuring that the right item is picked every time and significantly reducing the chance of errors.
This creative approach streamlines warehouse operations, speeds up picking times and enhances worker safety.
The first modular is 11.3m tall, with 61 trays that are each 4.3m wide and have a 750kg capacity, for a total weight capacity of 45 tonnes. Standing at a height of 12.3 meters, the second modular has 90 trays, each measuring 4.3m in width and holding 500kg, for a total weight capacity of 45 tonnes. Following the removal of the previous mezzanine and the installation of the two modular lifts, an additional 500 pallet spaces were also obtained.
Speaking to IWIN, Flanagan Fittings CEO Paul Flanagan said: “When we purchased the Modula models we wanted to fully utilise the floor space and height of our warehouse, It was only at installation stage that we were informed that they were the largest Modula machines ever installed in Ireland, as a result of the success of the Modula system, we have placed an order for a third machine, which will be installed in March.”
