HANDLING AND INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

Warehouse Management System (WMS). CASSIOLI's WMS provides for coordination and optimization of all warehouse control processes, from item arrival to truck loading bays. The high flexibility of this integrated system make sure that the WMS can be employed as a customized solution for certain warehouse areas (for example, in a intensive automatic storage system, treated by the company's Host as a "black box") or as the main warehouse system. The system allows for achieving large benefits in terms of improved communication with customers and suppliers, greater productivity, improved service quality and greater system readiness, thanks to quicker and more realiable information. In the case of automated warehouses, CASSIOLI's WMS really has a decisive role. It is a well known fact that, in every automatic storage plant where products have different access rates, handling capability depends on the cinematic characteristics of rack feeders (speed, acceleration, fork cycle time, and so on), on shelves volumetric configuration and, most of all, on operational control of rack feeders cycles. Hence CASSIOLI's WMS constructs sophisticated working policies which are capable of drastically reduce variable cycle times.

From an operational standpoint, the main functions performed by the automatic warehouse system are:

Thanks to the latest automatic identification systems (barcode, RFID, etc.), CASSIOLI's WMS provides for complete traceability of products, components and load units, such as boxes and pallets. The system records every object's physical movements so that the user is provided in real-time with information about quantity in stock and exact location of products within the warehouse. Reports on accesses and ABC analysis warrant work-saving and perfect warehouse administration.
CASSIOLI's WMS databases employ regular SQL technology (also MySQL, Oracle, etc.) and all the application programs are developed on C# and .NET platforms.