March 19th 2025 – Training Event – Automated System Design Getting it Right, Logistex.
Many businesses face difficult challenges about their order fulfilment. The most common question is probably “to automate or not”.
On 19th March 2025 AMHSA member, Logistex, provided us with the key to unlocking the mysteries surrounding automation and the decisions facing many organisations their automation journies.
This session at the Logistex offices, Kettering helped delegates to understand the key stages of understanding their warehousing facilities through to the operation expenditure and sending goods to customers and maintaining their satisfaction.
The course content aided understanding of automation systems and ways to consider how to develop protect and and futureproof automation solutions and business resilience. Topics included an overview of
- Warehouses – design, positioning, type and purpose
- Order Structures
- Picking Methodology
- Solution Design
aiding delegates’ understanding of what makes automation system design exciting and successful.
Testimonials
N. Thomas, Logiplast – “I really enjoyed the day and have taken away some great key pieces of information to understand aspects of and considerations when design engineers are planning solutions. This helps me to be able to recognise and promote the USP’s of my products when working with integrators and suppliers across the industry”.
J. Kerr, Nerak – “I was able to successfully achieve my objective from the training and now have a greater appreciation of how our lifting and elevating equipment is considered in the design of an automated material handling system”.
February 12th 2025 – Element Logic Site Visit – Linney, Mansfield
AMHSA recently attended the Element Logic and their clients, Linney’s, site at Mansfield for a full demonstration of the Autostore system and how the business had employed an automation strategy to increase business capability to attract new customers and increase overall productivity and profitability.
In 2022 Linney engaged Element Logic to design, install and maintain a state-of-the-art storage and retrieval Autostore system to meet the aspirations of their growing business and strategy development. The flexibility and modular capability of the Autostore system captured the imagination of the team at Linney which stoked even greater ambition. Today Linney rely on a system which utilises only about 12% of actual floor space of their existing distribution facility and which employs 31,000 bins and 35 robots. The growth of their client base means that they manage the promotional POS and marketing projects for more than 60 recognised high street retailers and brands from the Mansfield facility and with the more space available and new structures being erected capacity seems endless. The system has also incorporated CMC’s Genesys packaing equipment and machinery which is capable of forming packing for most items delivering greater efficiencies and resource savings and allowing greater studies and analyses of other fulfilment processes to further improve their automation journey.
The visit allowed members fantastic opportunities to network and develop relationships with like minded people from around the industry.
