Automation and robotization massive logistics announced today that as a turn determining which requires companies to rethink the warehouses. CBRE, the global leader in real estate and expert in the logistics market deciphers the impacts of recent trends on the choice real estate of actors in logistics through a series of analyses and interviews with professionals, such as, Michel Fender, a partner at DIAGMA, and an assistant professor at HEC and Claude Samson, President of AFILOG.
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The massive evolution of consumption patterns, in particular the growth of e-commerce, leads logistics companies to review their working methods and identify new sources of productivity. This transformation is based on three pillars : the mechanization, automation and robotization. If the choice to automate is the result of the convergence of multiple factors (maturity of the business, corporate culture, nature, heterogeneity and unit of the products, and seasonality), it led inevitably to the real estate developers to offer warehouses more and more sophisticated – modular or turn-key.
“Automation is gaining ground in France and now invests in all sectors. A rise which explains in particular the increasing demand for the key-in-hand “, explains Didier Malherbes, Executive Director of Business and Logistics CBRE France.
The “brick” process ” to adapt its warehouse without changing…
Within warehouses, ” standard “, the essence of the new automation devices can be integrated by means of bricks process browsing ingeniously the building and using adaptations such as the addition of electrical power or crossings of fire doors. Some technical imperatives imply, however, of the specific arrangements.
Or a building, key-in-hand to accommodate equipment at the leading edge of the technology
The automation is based on a few tools that are especially innovative. Sorters Cross Belt, transtockeurs, automated guided vehicles (VGA) systems and so-called ” goods-to-man “* in particular, stand out as the 4 tools the flagship of the warehouse of tomorrow. Their specificities require, however, thinking ahead and common among logisticians, systems designers, and property developers to ensure the adaptation of the warehouse. As the highlights of the study, CBRE, these issues lead to an emphasis on key-in-hand.
A relaxation of the legislation favoring this growth
Perceived by firms as an obstacle to the automation, the French regulation has softened. The decree of 16 April 2017 allows a simplification of the constraints for the warehouses ICPE. Highly anticipated by the world of logistics real estate, this new order warehouses announces the change of the maximum area of the cells increases from 6 to 12 000 m2 and without derogation. Other notable change : the relaxation of the constraint of a distance of 20 metres between the external walls of the warehouse and the property boundaries. Last good sign : the new regulation opens the door to requests for exemption on all of the items.
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Sorters Cross Belt : rides which throws the objects transported on the side, of the ramps of destination. Its asset is its rate of fire since it can sort 40 000 objects / hour.
Transtockeurs : handling system performing inputs and inputs and outputs of goods in a narrow aisle between two racks. Its main characteristic is that he deploys to great heights, up to 45 metres.
Automated Guided vehicles : a robot that moves autonomously inside a warehouse. It can carry goods up to several tons.
Systems so-called “goods-to-man” : a fleet of mobile robots dedicated to the optimization of the preparation of orders. Keg robot raises and carries along the shelves of storage. With this system, the order pickers no longer need to move around in the warehouse.
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