Energy savings

thanks to balanced loads

Air Cost Control near Toulouse has 12 Hänel Rotomat® systems with Hänel EcoLoad® in operation

Air Cost Control is a global specialist in the distribution of electrical aircraft components. One of its clients is the German-French aircraft consortium AIRBUS.

Air Cost Control offers direct access to thou- sands of individual parts and complex aircraft components. A large number of these are always in stock and available to the customers at all times.

To cope with this demanding logistical task, the company worldwide relies on the powerful and versatile storage systems from Hänel. In its distribution centers in Germany, France and the USA, Air Cost Control operates a total of
37 Hänel storage systems.

The Hänel Lean-Lift® is the optimum storage system for medium to large-sized components. The containers and storage boxes are dimen- sioned so that the available container space is used to best advantage.

The Hänel Rotomat® – efficient small parts storage
The storage and error-free retrieval of thou- sands of small parts is a major challenge.

The Hänel Rotomat® is based on the vertical carousel principle, making it ideal for picking large numbers of diverse small parts.

The Hänel EcoLoad® provides operators with loading recommendations to keep the system carriers in balance. If items in storage are evenly balanced, payloads on the carriers can be moved with very little energy. Individual parts are assigned item numbers before they are sorted and put into plastic bins that are placed on the carriers of the Hänel Rotomat®.

The carriers rotate so that the requested articles are brought directly to the access point where they can be retrieved ergonomically from the plastic bins. Thanks to the wear-resistant stainless steel work counter, the plastic storage bins are easy to slide and move.

Hänel storage management – high-performance networking with IT systems
By using different Hänel systems, Air Cost Control achieves maximum optimization of its storage processes. Direct and reliable access to specific stored goods and documents, parallel processing at multiple units and high-performance automation based on integration with the IT system make the Hänel storage systems both
cost-effective and efficient for Air Cost Control.

Head of Warehousing and Dispatch, Stephanie Sabourin, says: “With the storage systems from Hänel we save space, optimize our warehouse processes and offer our customers even faster and more reliable order handling.”

Hänel lift systems deliver many benefits, such as energy efficiency for automated miniload storage thanks to Hänel EcoLoad® – just one of many reasons to choose intralogistic solutions from Hänel!