Electronic Industry Case | With less than 30m2, surprisingly stores 90% of the company’s inventory!

Company background

Founded in 1999, Ningbo SUPU Electronic Co., Ltd, focusing on cabinet electrical connections and device electrical connections, gathered electrical device connection, electrical field connection, customized products and solutions, is an excellent global supplier of electrical industry, integrating research and development, production, sales, and service.

SUPU’s product line includes rail mounted terminal blocks, PCB terminal blocks, industrial switches, circular connectors, terminal block modules, and so on. SUPU is fully committed to promoting the construction of its R&D innovation team. The technology center currently has nearly 160 personnel, with comprehensive R&D capabilities in new materials and processing, structural optimization design, mold design and manufacturing, and automated assembly equipment design and manufacturing.

SUPU’s products and solutions have been widely used in various industries such as intelligent buildings, industrial automation, traditional power transmission and distribution, new energy power, and rail transit, providing professional solutions. SUPU’s factory management takes lean as its core, adopting a large number of lean ideas and tools to improve the overall efficiency of equipment and personnel.

Problem

1. SUPU needs to establish a new digital factory. The company’s goal is to have a fully automated production line, with warehousing as an important part. They want to quickly find an intelligent warehousing solution that can save storage space and integrate the intelligent warehousing management system WMS with the existing systems of the factory to achieve closed-loop management from receiving orders, production to delivery.

2. SUPU’s electronic raw materials, electronic components, and maintenance accessories are diverse and precise, requiring a good storage environment.

3. The warehouse colleagues are located on the first and fourth floors, and they hope to be able to pick up/store goods without going up or down, to effectively improve picking efficiency.

Solution

In order to better solve customer’s issues, Modula sales provided them with the following solutions:

1. By Installing two 16.1-meter Modula LIFT series with dual tray delivery for storing raw materials, electronic components, and maintenance accessories, they achieved intelligent warehousing in one step and better realized the full process automatic production line.

Currently, the Modula LIFT occupies less than 30m2 but it stores 90% of the company’s inventory. Each Modula LIFT is equipped with two picking ports, distributed on different floors, equivalent to a freight elevator. And pick-up and replenishment can be done simultaneously, increasing efficiency by 1.5 times.

The original warehouse in the factory required two employees, but with the installation of Modula LIFT in the new factory, only one employee is needed to manage the warehouse, greatly saving the company’s labor costs.

2. In order to improve the picking speed and accuracy, the customer has also installed a laser pointer, so that operators can quickly find the target materials in the tray according to the instructions, which not only improves picking efficiency but also avoids errors.