Intelligent and automated transport and goods handling processes for higher productivity in the warehouse

We track industrial assets in motion and ensure that you increase the overall efficiency of your goods and transport flows with INTRANAV. The main goal is to reduce manual handling in intralogistics and replace non-value-added activities with quality-assuring, value-added processes. INTRANAV’s innovative IIoT platform enables process automation with location/RF technology.

By digitizing your forklift fleet, you optimize the entire flow of transport and goods. Scannerless end-to-end movements from inbound to outbound process, eliminate time-consuming and error-prone manual work processes. Automated transport flow management allows goods movements to be automatically recorded and tracked, Auto-ID solutions with integrated UWB & RFID technology enable fast and process-reliable processing.

Warehouse optimization potential
through INTRANAV

• Optimization of material handling

  

  +25% Optimization of material flow utilization (OEE)

  Through intelligent networking of location & sensor data from MHE & Material together with modern ERP and WMS management systems.

   

  

• Efficient use of shop floor resources

  

  -40% reduction in idle and throughput times

  Through real-time optimization of transport orders, resources, intelligent routing and the elimination of barcode scanning through AUTO-ID and recognition systems.

   

  

• Optimizing the workflow utilization

  

  -15% Reduction of inefficiencies and errors in workflows

  Through real-time process interlocking, digitized workflows, machine learning-based plausibility checks, predictive analysis and warnings.

   

  

• Planning on-time delivery and ensuring quality

  

  +10% Improvement of assembly line availability (up-time)

  By reducing incorrect transports, misdirected shipments, process errors, and security risks as well as optimizing JIS and JIT production deliveries to the line with modern MES execution systems.

   

  

Maximum process optimization already achieved by customers with INTRANAV.IO & –RTLS

INTRANAV Smart Warehouse Solution

• VIRTUAL Warehouse Solution
• INTRANAV.APP Virtual Pallet
• INTRANAV.APP Transport Pool
• INTRANAV.APP Virtual Storage
• INTRANAV.APP Transport Driver

• INTRANAV revolutionizes warehouse and transport handling for the first time with the VIRTUAL Warehouse Solution. The INTRANAV.RTLS VehicleTAG+, which is installed on the vehicle fleet (forklift, AGV, route train), ensures scanner-free and optimized goods transport. This eliminates massive hardware costs for equipment to track pallets, boxes, and containers in real-time.
  With the combination of INTRANAV.RTLS hardware and software you control the flow of transport and goods (assets, load carriers, vehicles) in intralogistics as well as in the yard. Warehouse triggers control automatic transport order jobs of the vehicles, INTRANAV.APPs provide an optimal transport order distribution of the fleet by a transport order pool and take into account the forklift availability as well as an optimized routing of the vehicles. Integrated sensors ensure transport safety and collision avoidance. Retrograde reports based on real-time location data now also enable optimization potential of the entire material flow; weak points and waste can be analyzed at a glance. KPI comparisons can reveal bottlenecks, dwell times, throughput time, unnecessary stops, disruptions, delays, process length or the total time required for a complete cycle.

  

• The INTRANAV.APP Virtual Pallets is part of the VIRTUAL Warehouse Solution and supports logistics staff in loading pallets according to type, which means that they can then be entered in the ERP & INTRANAV system as a pallet bundle via bulk reading. Hardware-based device matching eliminates manual identification booking steps such as recording and confirmation (scanning), reduces the error rate of the goods receipt booking process, and saves employees time.

  Each delivered carton is equipped with an RFID label for tracking and goods ID recording. In order to be able to load the pallets according to type, an HMI display shows the responsible employee how many cartons need to be packed onto which pallet. In the exchange between ERP and INTRANAV, the number of packages to be loaded onto a pallet is clear in order to obtain a single-sort pallet. Automatic feedback is shown to the employee on the display as soon as the pallet “full status” is reached and the real number of packages matches the system number. By registering the single NVEs / single packages, during the loading of the pallets, INTRANAV counts up until the maximum number of packages per pallet, package type, and sort is reached. Systemically, the numerical count creates the formation of a variety bundle (Virtual Palette). In the ERP, a pallet is thus booked as single-variety, INTRANAV also recognizes the real-time position of the pallet, with which the further material flow can be tracked via INTRANAV.IO and further automatic warehouse triggers, such as transport order orders for goods storage for forklifts, can be issued with geofences.

   

  If the transport vehicle is equipped with the INTRANAV.RTLS VehicleTAG+ (UWB) (digitized forklift fleet), the last storage location (endpoint) of the goods/pallet is systemically recorded in ERP/EWM and INTRANAV.IO. Touchpoint matching with the endpoint eliminates the need to tag individual pallets or totes, giving you significant savings in RTLS hardware.

  

• The INTRANAV.APP Transport Pool is an innovative transport management software module based on real-time location data for a fast collection and allocation of all transport jobs to the vehicle fleet. All transport jobs are collected from the SAP system and distributed to manned vehicles or Automated Guided Vehicles. The current location status of the respective vehicle is taken into account for the most efficient routes and the order quantity already allocated to the respective vehicle. The transport pool can be used for any number of loading/unloading points and transport sections in the warehouse and yard.

  

• The INTRANAV.APP Virtual Storage visualizes the entire warehouse inventory based on the last storage location (store point) as a digital twin.

  

• The INTRANAV.APP Transport Driver is the interactive cockpit of the forklift driver. Here, the driver is shown all important information about his assigned transport jobs. Which job is currently being executed, how many transport jobs are still open, and which pallet is currently on the fork, including associated information such as number of packages, unmixed pallet, or fire.
  The integrated direction sensor also detects the vehicle direction, enabling fast and safe navigation to the destination. Collision Management increases safety and avoids dangerous situations by means of warning messages, or prevents them from occurring in the first place through proactive directional indication.

  

Digitizing your transports with the intelligent Forklift

• Orientation: Recognition of vehicle direction for process safety
• UWB: RTLS Optimization for process areas and safety zones
• GPS-Precise: Nathless process tracking in indoor and outdoor areas
• RFID: Scanner-less goods transport (incl. Virtual Pallets)
• Fork Sensor: Detection of loading status and fork height
• Open API: Readout and use of vehicle data for process automation
• INTRANAV.IO: Automatic order processing from the central system (ERP, WMS, MES) and virtual orchestration

Finally process transparency with
INTRANAV.IO Suite

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You want to know how you can make your processes more efficient with real-time tracking?

Our team will be happy to advise you with comprehensive know-how out of the RTLS world!