Automated warehouse for CLAAS Tractor SAS in Le Mans, France
CLAAS Tractor SAS, member of the CLAAS Group and leading manufacturer of tractors, is expanding its factory in Le Mans, France, with a state-of-the-art automated high bay warehouse. With this installation, the intralogistics processes for a new production line shall be lastingly optimised. The warehouse, designed and implemented by psb, replaces the previously operated conventional floor-based warehouse in this area – a major step towards automation and digitalisation in production logistics. The objective of this modernisation is to boost the company’s growth and meet the increased requirements of the new production line.
Core of this project is a fully automated three-aisle automatic warehouse, equipped with sprinter type AS/RS stacker cranes for trays and totes by psb intralogistics. The new warehousing system has an impressive storage capacity of 22.500 load handling units and can achieve up to 250 double cycles in an hour. In this way, the required components are provided just in time, thus improving the flexibility and reaction time in production significantly.
Another key feature of the new warehousing system is the seamless integration into the IT infrastructure of CLAAS. The high bay warehouse is completely connected to SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management). This integration allows for an uninterrupted traceability of goods movements and ensures that the warehouse processes are perfectly synchronised with CLAAS’s higher level business processes, with the effect of greater transparency and efficiency.
By implementing the automated small parts warehouse, psb intralogistics has contributed to making CLAAS’s production logistics ready for the future. The high storage density and the automated processes allow the reduction of stock levels, which not only lowers inventory costs, but also minimises the logistical efforts.
The new high bay warehouse represents a future-proof solution for the production supply at CLAAS by combining efficiency, flexibility and scalability.