Logistics and warehousing equipment
Equipment used for logistics and warehousing
Logistics warehousing equipment mainly includes shelves, stackers, handling vehicles, inbound and outbound conveying equipment, sorting equipment, elevators, handling robots, as well as computer management and monitoring systems. These devices can form automated, semi automated, and mechanized commercial warehouses for stacking, storing, and sorting and transporting goods. Logistics and warehousing equipment can be divided into two categories: logistics equipment and warehousing equipment. But in today’s rapidly developing modern manufacturing industry, logistics and warehousing are inseparable, and are closely linked in the formulation of industry standards.
Definition
Logistics and warehousing equipment is one of the main operational tools for modern enterprises, serving as the foundation for rational organization of mass production and mechanized assembly line operations. For third-party logistics companies, logistics warehousing equipment is the material and technological foundation for organizing warehousing and logistics activities, reflecting the size of the company’s logistics capabilities. Logistics warehousing equipment is the material foundation of the logistics system, and with the development and progress of logistics, logistics warehousing equipment continues to be improved and developed. Many new equipment continue to emerge in the field of logistics and warehousing equipment, such as four-way pallets, overhead forklifts, automatic sorting machines, automatic guided vehicles (AGVs), containers, etc., greatly reducing people’s labor intensity, improving the efficiency and service quality of warehousing and logistics operations, reducing logistics costs, playing an important role in logistics and warehousing operations, and greatly promoting the rapid development of logistics and warehousing.
Logistics and warehousing equipment can be divided into packaging equipment, warehousing equipment, container unit equipment, loading and unloading equipment, circulation processing equipment, and transportation equipment according to their specific uses.
1. Packaging equipment
Packaging equipment refers to machines and devices that complete all or part of the packaging process. Packaging equipment is the fundamental guarantee for achieving mechanization and automation in product packaging. Mainly including filling equipment, canning equipment, sealing equipment, wrapping equipment, labeling equipment, cleaning equipment, drying equipment, sterilization equipment, etc.
2. Storage equipment
It mainly includes shelves, stacker trucks, handling vehicles, entry and exit conveyor equipment, sorting equipment, elevators, handling robots, as well as computer management and monitoring systems. These devices can form automated, semi automated, and mechanized commercial warehouses for stacking, storing, and sorting and transporting goods.
3. Container unit equipment
There are mainly containers, pallets, turnover boxes, and other container unit equipment. After being containerized or packaged in combination by container equipment, the goods have high flexibility and are always ready for operation, which is conducive to achieving the integration of storage, loading and unloading, transportation and packaging, and achieving the mechanization and standardization of logistics operations.
4. Loading and unloading equipment
It refers to equipment used for moving, lifting, loading and unloading, and short distance transportation of materials, and is an important component of logistics machinery and equipment. From the perspective of usage and structural characteristics, loading and unloading equipment mainly includes lifting equipment, continuous transportation equipment, loading and unloading vehicles, specialized loading and unloading equipment, etc.
5. Circulation processing equipment
Mainly including metal processing equipment, mixing and blending equipment, wood processing equipment, and other circulation processing equipment.
6. Transportation equipment
The importance of transportation was mentioned earlier. The unique position of transportation in logistics has raised higher requirements for transportation equipment, requiring it to have high-speed, intelligent, universal, large-scale, and safe and reliable characteristics to improve transportation efficiency, reduce transportation costs, and achieve optimal utilization of transportation equipment. According to different modes of transportation, transportation equipment can be divided into cargo trucks, railway freight cars, cargo ships, air transport equipment, and pipeline equipment. For third-party logistics companies, they generally only have a certain number of cargo trucks, while other transportation equipment directly utilizes public transportation equipment in society.
Logistics warehousing equipment is the main indicator of the level of logistics technology, and modern logistics warehousing equipment reflects the development of modern logistics warehousing technology. In recent years, the modernization and automation of logistics and warehousing equipment in China have been relatively high, characterized by:
1,The socialization level of equipment is increasing, the structure of equipment is becoming more and more complex, and the various links from research, design, production to scrapping are interdependent and mutually restrictive.
2. The trend of “four modernizations” has emerged in equipment, namely continuous, large-scale, high-speed, and electronic, which has improved productivity.
3. Energy intensive equipment is predominant, with high energy consumption; At the same time, modern equipment investment and usage costs are very expensive and capital intensive, so improving the economic efficiency of management is very important for logistics enterprises.
