Due to the company's continuous growth and the enlargement of the product range this warehouse was bursting at the seams so that an enlargement became inevitable and the building wasextended by 105 ft. (32 m). In order to optimize the facility's efficiency, the viastore modernization specialists analyzed the warehouse processes. This revealed that it would be advantageous to replace the transfer car by two more viapal storage/retrieval machines. The control system of the existing SRM and the material flow system will be brought to the latest state of the art. Moreover, a couple of additional functions will be added to the pallet conveyor system and the rack system. The new conveyor elements will be integrated into the upgraded S7 pallet conveyor system control. To ensure that the SRM can operate without any problems both in the old and in the new warehouse areas, the design of the racking systemwill remain unchanged.

However, the subdivision of the storage locations was adjusted in order to allow storage of the extended product range accordingly. The existing viad@tWMS warehouse management system will then be extended to cover this new warehouse area too and the material flow computer with the obsolete DOS operating system will be replaced by up-to-date hard- and software. A high-performance computer will map the entire material flow in the future. Due to the extension and modernization of the warehouse sections, orochemie will not only win space, but also achieve significant improvements in overall system performance.