04-11-2014, 10:17 AM
Abstracts: ABSTRACT Imagine any plant/manufacturing sector without cluttered aisles, excess inventory, lost or damaged products, inaccurate records, endless searching, climbing, bending and frustration. Imagine a highly profitable operation that adds value and decreases expense. AS/RS are means to high density hands free buffering of materials in distribution and manufacturing environments. AS/RS is a complete system designed to transport, stage/store, retrieve, and report on every item in any industrial inventory with up-to-the minute accuracy. An automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS or AS/RS) consists of a variety of computer-controlled systems for automatically placing and retrieving loads from defined storage locations. Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) are typically used in applications where: there is a very high volume of loads being moved into and out of storage; storage density is important because of space constraints; no value adding content is present in this process; accuracy is critical because of potential expensive damages to the load. AS/RS can be used with standard loads as well as nonstandard loads.