WORLD OF INDUSTRIES 5/2020

W RLDWIDE NEWS
Schmersal India pushes export activities
In the year 2007, Schmersal India was
incepted as a ‘Sales’ only
organization and to becoming
the youngest production
site of the Schmersal
group, located at
Ranjangaon, Pune, has
written a real success
story in the last
thirteen years.
The state of the art
manufacturing
facility, established
in 2012 -2013 with the
main goal to provide
the Global Players of
mechanical engineering
with safety switches and
safety systems for their local
production sites and service units.
Within the next few years, export
activities shall be expanded in a large extent. The first step for this aim
has been taken: Schmersal has just expanded the Export Oriented Unit”
in its factory. The EOU scheme of the Indian government was established
to promote export activities by granting a variety of advantages.
www.schmersal.com
Fast and efficient online grocery fulfilment
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for online groceries
has increased with a more diversified group of consumers discovering
such services. Shoppers demand a wide assortment of high-quality and
fresh products, and rapid deliveries, as well as
convenience and service at competitive
prices. At the same time, food retailers
are continuously facing new competitors
entering the market.
In response, Vanderlande has
developed Homepick. It is a
solution that seamlessly integrates
the company’s systems,
software and life-cycle services to
create a concept that should
support food retail operations.
Homepick is designed to facilitate
the fast and efficient processing of
online orders in food retailing.
At its core, Homepick is based on a
goods-to-person (GtP) picking solution that
makes use of Adapto, Vanderlande’s 3D, shuttle-based automated
storage and retrieval system (AS/RS). Due to its modern configuration,
Homepick offers, among other things, high picking efficiency, shorter
lead times, higher accuracy. It also supports an omni-channel approach
and can seamlessly match any growth strategy.
www.vanderlande.com
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