Traditionally, warehouse goods are stored directly on floors, leading to extensive space consumption with inefficient use, low storage precision, prolonged delivery times, and high product damage rates. In addition, manual warehouse operations using forklifts impose significant labor demands, limit efficiency improvements, and increase the likelihood of errors.

Thus,manufacturing companies must possess advanced production management and supply coordination capabilities, implementing automation and intelligence in warehousing and logistics. This enables real-time, quick, and accurate visibility into warehouse conditions and operations, ensuring smooth and on-time production, shipping, and receiving tasks.

Sprint Precision Technologies,a manufacturer specializing in precision components for semiconductor equipment, has partnered with EMAN to build an intelligent warehousing and logistics system centered around automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV). This collaboration has resulted in precise material management, reduced labor and warehouse space requirements, and significantly improved warehouse operational efficiency, laying a solid foundation for advancing intelligent manufacturing.

The EMAN WMS connects upstream with ERP systems, sending material, stock-in, and stock-out instructions. After the WMS executes logistical tasks, the WCS coordinates equipment to manage incoming and outgoing stock operations, with AGVs autonomously delivering items to designated stations.

The EMAN intelligent warehousing logistics system encompasses essential functions such as personnel management, department oversight, unit measures, material records, pallet accounting, equipment records, channels, entries, racks, and inventory, along with inventory checks, task management, and statistical analysis. This advanced solution improves warehouse management efficiency, enabling accurate data analytics and automated equipment monitoring and scheduling. Additionally, EMAN developed custom handheld PDA functionalities for Sprint Precision Technologies, enabling swift mixed-palletization and multi-task outbound operations.

Before this project's implementation, comprehensive tracking of warehouse materials was challenging, with manual data analysis proving burdensome. The intelligent warehousing system records all stock transactions, with a visual dashboard providing real-time inventory and stock status insights, eliminating the need for additional staff for complex data computations. Automated cargo operations have reduced manual work intensity and dependency while improving accuracy.

With a short implementation period and smooth trial operations, the automated warehouse project was quickly launched, garnering positive feedback from Sprint Precision Technologies and setting a firm foundation for continued collaboration. Following the warehouse's successful operation, Sprint Precision Technologies immediately pursued AGVs to minimize manual handling and increase logistic efficiency. This AGV logistics project, also executed by EMAN, aims at automating intra-warehouse and inter-facility transportation and sorting, seamlessly integrating production and logistics, and facilitating lean production for a fully intelligent factory. The AGV project is anticipated to go live in June.

Through this intelligent warehousing initiative, Sprint Precision Technologies has achieved significant enhancements in material turnover efficiency and spatial utilization, fully automating and initializing the warehousing logistics link while providing robust support for production processes. This boost in innovation also strengthens product market competitiveness, creating new growth channels for the company. EMAN remains committed to delving deeply into all aspects of intelligent manufacturing, incorporating digital technologies into production and operational scenarios to empower manufacturing enterprises effectively in their smart manufacturing transformation.