From the inbound dock to the outbound truck, with nobody pushing.
We robotise the movement of a distribution centre and of a logistics operator: from the inbound dock to the outbound truck. Storage itself is handled by specialists, and we integrate with them.
- 1987automating since then
- +1,000projects delivered
- +600customers
- 17countries
From the inbound dock to the outbound one
Six zones, one journey. The one a forklift makes today.
The material’s whole journey, dock to dock, with the warehouse in its place and us joining onto it. Under each zone is what it costs your centre today; tap it and you will see how we solve it, and with what.
01 Receiving and unloading
The challenge
Trucks arrive when they arrive, nearly always together. The dock fills up, and what comes in fast ends up waiting for someone to move it.
How we solve it
Unloading feeds a journey, not a pile: pallet identification, profile and weight checking, and an orderly entry into internal transport. What arrives is known, and so is where it is going.
With what
- Label reading and registration in your system
- Inbound profile checking and weighing
- Roller or chain pallet conveyor
- AGVs and autonomous pallet trucks for the dock stretch
02 Depalletising
The challenge
Taking cases off a pallet, layer by layer, is the job that costs the most backs in a distribution centre, and the one most noticed when people are short.
How we solve it
Robotic depalletising with vision: it recognises the layer, picks it whole or case by case and sets it on the line. And when the pallet arrives mixed, it handles that too.
With what
- Vision to recognise layer and format
- Handling built for each product, with quick changeover
- Mixed-case depalletising
- KLT, IFCO and tray containers
03 Conveying and accumulation
The challenge
Between one process and the next there are tens or hundreds of metres, and often a forklift with a person in it covers them. It is the cost that appears on no report.
How we solve it
Pallet and case conveyors, vertical and spiral lifts, and accumulation stretches that absorb the peak without stopping what is behind. Where the route changes often, autonomous vehicles instead of a fixed line.
With what
- Roller, chain and belt conveyors
- Accumulation stretches
- Vertical and spiral lifts
- Overhead conveying when the floor is taken
- AGVs and AMRs with traffic management
04 Sorting
The challenge
Each case goes to a different order and each order to a different dock. Splitting the flow by hand sets the pace for everything behind it.
How we solve it
Continuous sorting: the case is read and diverted without slowing the line. The technology is chosen for the product and the throughput, not the other way round.
With what
- Diverters and vertical diverting
- Shoe sorter
- Tilt tray
- Cross belt
- Reading and traceability for every parcel
05 Storage
Here we join onto your warehouse
The challenge
Between what comes in and what goes out, things have to be stored, and that link shapes both its neighbours: if the warehouse does not deliver on time, order building stands still however well automated it is.
What we do here
The warehouse is built by those who do that for a living, and we join onto it: we deliver to it and collect from it at the point, in the condition and at the pace its system asks for, with accumulation on both sides so neither waits for the other. Everything that happens before it goes in and after it comes out is ours to answer for.
Where we join
- Integration with your WMS and with the storage supplier
- Delivery and collection at the point its system asks for
- Accumulation on the way in and on the way out, so neither waits for the other
- One point of contact for the whole journey
06 Shipping
The challenge
At the end of the day it all comes together: building each order with different products, weights and formats, wrapping, weighing, labelling and loading, with forklifts crossing paths with people and the truck waiting.
How we solve it
The order is built to rules —weight at the bottom, fragile on top, delivery-route order— and comes out the same at three in the afternoon as at three in the morning. From there it goes to wrapping, weighing, profile checking and labelling without leaving the journey, and a mobile robot takes it to the right dock.
With what
- Case picking with vision
- Mixed palletising with pattern rules
- Pallet wrapping, strapping and labelling
- Weighing and profile checking
- AMRs and AGVs out to the dock
- Integration with your ERP or WMS, which stay in charge
For whoever answers for the centre delivering
Six questions. Yes or no. Thirty seconds.
They are not about which equipment to buy, but about where the time is going today. At the end we tell you where we would start.
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1 / 6
Do trucks pile up at the inbound dock because unloading cannot keep up?
Orderly receiving: the pallet is identified, checked and enters the journey instead of sitting on the dock.
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2 / 6
Does someone take cases off a pallet by hand, layer by layer, every day?
Robotic depalletising with vision, whole layer or case by case, mixed pallets included.
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3 / 6
Does material go from one process to the next on a forklift, with a person driving?
Conveyors and accumulation where the route is fixed; AGVs and mobile robots where it changes.
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4 / 6
Do you split parcels by destination by reading the label and pushing the case?
Continuous sorting: the case is read and diverted without slowing the line, with whatever technology your product calls for.
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5 / 6
Are mixed-product order pallets built by a person?
Robotic order building and mixed palletising by rules of weight, fragility and delivery route, through to wrapping and the dock.
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6 / 6
Do you have more than one warehouse or centre, with nobody answering for the flow as a whole?
A plant plan with one party responsible: we analyse the whole flow, decide with you where to start, and answer for the performance, with our own technical service.
Your result
This is where we would start.
- 01Receiving
- 02Depalletising
- 03Conveying
- 04Sorting
- 05Storage
- 06Shipping
- +Plant plan
If none of this applies to you, the interesting conversation is a different one: how many orders you will have to build two years from now and whether today’s centre can take them. That is answered by emulating the whole flow before anything is touched.
What other managers answer
Take it with you. Scan and take your result with you, along with the whole page to read at your own pace.
How the decision gets judged
OEE, OTIF and ROI: the three figures you will have to defend.
You close the number with your own costs. We give you the data it comes from: the emulation hands you the real journey, the metres travelled empty and the waits that pile up between stretches.
OEE
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
What the installation moves against what it would move if it never stopped and never sent anything to the wrong place. Three factors multiply together: one of them drops and the whole figure drops.
What you get: The emulation gives you the three separately, stretch by stretch, before the installation exists.
OTIF
Deliveries on time and in full (OTIF)
An order only counts if it leaves on the agreed day and complete. Here it is the figure that depends most directly on the installation: what does not reach the dock in time does not go out.
What you get: It can be tested beforehand: we put an order peak or a new destination into the emulation and see which stretch falls short.
ROI
Return on investment (ROI)
It is calculated with your costs and your prices, not with ours. That is why we do not promise it: what we provide is the part of the calculation that can be checked.
What you get: Pallets per hour, metres travelled, how busy each stretch is and expected downtime. With that, the number is yours to make and yours to defend.
All three are worked out from the same data. That is why the emulation comes before the investment is committed, not after the installation is built.
On video
The journey, process by process.
Above, clips filmed in centres that work every day. Below, demonstrations made at Inser: we call them what they are.
Order building: case picking and palletising
The order pallet is built with different products, following rules of weight and route.
- On site
- Demonstrations at Inser
It is not one technology: it is whichever one each stretch needs.
A distribution centre is not solved with one kind of machine. It is solved by choosing well which one goes in each stretch, and that choice is half the project.
Pallet conveyors
Roller and chain. Hundreds of metres per installation, which is where the real throughput is won or lost.
Case conveyors
Belt, roller and accumulation stretches, which are what absorb the peak without stopping the line behind.
Overhead conveying
When the floor is already taken or a walkway has to be crossed. We have built it in order-building areas.
Lifts and spirals
Vertical for pallets and product; spiral for continuous case flow, when floor space is tight.
Sorting
Diverters, shoe sorter, cross belt, tilt tray. Splitting the flow by destination without slowing it.
Autonomous vehicles and mobile robots
AGVs and AMRs for the stretches where the route changes, or where fixing a line does not pay.
Handling robots
Palletising, depalletising and case picking, with quick format changeover and the handling designed for whatever the product is.
End of the journey
Wrapping, case and pallet labelling, weighing and profile checking before the dock.
And underneath all of it, traceability. Every pallet and every case leaves a record of where it went and when. It is what makes an installation auditable, and what lets you prove which stretch is really holding things back instead of arguing about it.
Three fronts where the internal journey eats the margin without appearing on any invoice.
The investment
- Hard to justify the investment when, one way or another, the orders go out
- Uncertainty when sizing it: how many metres, how many stations, how much machinery
- No way of knowing which stretch will fall short two years from now
On-time delivery
- Orders going out late because the bottleneck is before the dock
- Peak season always jams the same stretch
- Picking errors discovered at the customer’s plant
The cost of moving
- Forklift hours between processes that appear on no report
- Building the order pallet depends on who is at the station that day
- Taking cases down by hand, layer by layer, with what that costs in absence and turnover
We make the material move, dock to dock.
Classic warehouse automation asks the operation to adapt to it: redesign the layout, integrate deeply with the management system and commit for many years. When it works, it works very well. When the customer, the product or the volume changes —and in logistics they do— the investment no longer fits and there is no going back.
We work the other way round: we automate specific stretches of the journey, the ones that consume the most hours today, without invading your management systems. Your ERP and your WMS stay in charge and stay yours.
And when the journey goes through an automated warehouse, we join onto it: a handover point defined in writing, accumulation on both sides so neither waits for the other, and one point of contact for everything else.
This is ours
- Receiving, identification and inbound checking
- All the conveying: floor, overhead and mobile robotics
- Depalletising and palletising, single-product and mixed
- Sorting by destination, route or order
- Order building and consolidation
- Wrapping, labelling, weighing and profile checking
- The software that governs the movements
And it joins onto this
- Your ERP and your warehouse management system, which stay in charge
- The automated warehouse you already have, or the one you choose, whoever it is from
- The equipment already installed and running
The handover point is defined in writing before anything is built: what each side delivers, in what position, in what condition and at what pace.
From the jammed aisle to the order that goes out by itself.
Three levers, in this order: first measure the journey, then put the stretches in order, and only then automate. Automating a disorderly flow leaves it the same, but dearer.
Emulate
Decide on data, not on the morning shift’s impression
- Simulate the journey with one day’s real movements, against the same software that will later run it: that is emulating, not estimating
- Compare layouts and technologies before buying a single metre
- See the crossings and the stretches that jam
- Reduce the risk of an installation that is the wrong size
- Validate the investment against the layout you have today
Plan
Fewer empty runs, more on-time deliveries
- Order the routes so they do not get in each other’s way
- Set the priorities when there is a queue
- Hold the order output at peak hour
- Gain traceability of every pallet and every case
- Get more out of the metres you already have
Automate
Less pushing, more flow
- Chain receiving, conveying, order building and shipping
- Cut the order’s wait before the dock
- So the output does not change with the shift
- Raise the whole journey’s uptime
- Get the trips and the loads that add nothing out of the way
What comes off your line, and the mix matters more than the volume.
The first question we ask is not how many pallets go out a day: it is what is inside them and how it is mixed. A building that only moves cardboard cases is solved one way; one that mixes sacks, drums and trays, a very different way. And that difference is settled by looking at the whole journey, not machine by machine.
Your format not listed? Hardly any of them is listed exactly, and it is not the starting point. What decides a project is the whole flow: what comes in, how it is mixed, at what pace and where it has to go out. That is what we analyse first, and the solution adapts to whatever is there. We have been adapting to very different products and formats since 1987.
Almost all of them handle the way in very well. Few handle the way out.
Goods-to-person systems do their job and do it well. And almost all of them end the same way: at a station where someone builds the order pallet by hand, case by case, with the weight on them and the clock against them. The bottleneck has moved, not gone.
That is where we fit without touching anything that already works: mixed palletising at the outfeed of your system, with the pallet built stable and in the order the delivery route calls for. And the journey from that station to the dock, if that is needed too.
We do not compete with your storage supplier: we connect to them.
Where we come in
- Your system brings the product outyours, untouched
- Order-building stationtoday, by hand
- Mixed palletisingthis is where we come in
- Wrapping, labelling and weighinghere too
- Transport to the dockand here
How much equipment is really needed.
It is the question that decides the whole budget, and it is answered before the first metre is bought: the journey is emulated with one day’s real movements and you see where paths cross, where things wait and which stretch falls short in two years. It also says in what order to build it without stopping the operation.
Before you invest
To design the system
- Test machine configurations with real production data
- Define the best architecture for each plant
- Validate performance before anything is installed
- Lower the risk of the investment: neither oversized nor short
And every day after that
For day-to-day production
- Simulate production scenarios with many products
- Work out the best production sequence
- Cut changeover times between machines and materials
- See bottlenecks coming and raise output
- Decide with data, on the day, not at next month’s meeting
Something has to go between your management system and the machines. It is called Strattum.
Your ERP knows which order has to be served. Your WMS knows where the product is. Neither of them knows which stretch to send it down, in what order, or what to do when two orders want the same diverter at the same time. That layer is what decides whether the installation runs smoothly or in fits and starts.
Strattum is ours. We write it, we maintain it, and the same people who built the machine answer for it: when something stops, there is no working out which of three suppliers is to blame.
What it takes care of
- Talking to your systems. It receives the order from the ERP or the WMS and reports back what happened. Without replacing either.
- Allocating the work. What goes where, in what order and with what priority when there is a queue.
- Recording every movement. Which pallet, which case, which way and when. That is the traceability, and it can be looked up.
- Showing the state of things. Which stretch is saturated, which is stopped and which has room to spare, live.
What you install today has to still serve you if the customer changes tomorrow.
A modular stretch can be reconfigured or moved. A palletising cell can be taken to another building. A classic automated warehouse cannot. That difference looks technical and is in fact the financial decision of the project, and it is worth taking with your eyes open.
- A modular installation: each stretch works on its own, combined, or added later
- Equipment that can be reconfigured if the customer, the product or the building changes
- No replacing your ERP or your WMS: it integrates with what you already have
- Growth by stretches: start with one and add more when they are needed
- It connects to whatever automated storage you have, whoever it is from
- Installation planned so the operation does not stop while it goes in
The same journey, two different businesses.
Distribution centres
Plenty of movement, plenty of products, and seasonal peaks that cannot be covered by hiring in the same rush every year.
Logistics operators
Where the contract lasts three years and the building may change customer. Here, an installation that can be reconfigured is not an advantage: it is the requirement.
Who answers when the flow stops in the middle of peak season?
Our own technical team and four ways to resolve it, in this order. The sooner someone gets in, the less it shows in the orders going out.
- 1 Remote support Remote diagnosis across the whole installation.
- 2 On-site intervention For when someone has to be in front of the machine.
- 3 IoT platform The state and the route of every stretch and every unit, live.
- 4 Training and handover So your team can change a destination without calling us.
We answer for the whole journey.
We analyse the whole flow before touching a single machine, and then we answer for it working: engineering, commissioning and our own technical service.
Proven experience
Since 1987, with more than 1,000 projects delivered and maintained across the three lines of the company.
One point of contact
From the inbound dock to the outbound one: one supplier, one phone number. The storage specialist handles the warehouse; we handle the integration.
Modular and scalable
Start with one stretch and grow without rebuilding what is installed.
Strattum, our own software
From order to movement, with no seams between systems.
It fits what you have
With your management system and with whatever automated storage you already have.
Full traceability
Every pallet and every case, with its route on record.
From movement… to full control.
Because adding more machines does not, by itself, get orders out sooner: it goes out sooner when the journey is measured, the stretches are in order and the priorities are clear.
Eight answers before the first visit.
Which part of the journey do you answer for?
The movement, dock to dock: receiving, conveying, depalletising, sorting, order building, palletising and shipping, with the software that governs those movements. The warehouse itself is built by a specialist and we join onto it at a handover point defined in writing.
And if the failure is right at the border with the automated warehouse?
It is the right question, and the one that hurts most. The handover point is defined in writing before anything is built: what each side delivers, in what position, in what condition and at what pace. And on both sides of that border we leave accumulation, so neither has to wait for the other. On our side of the point we answer, with our own technical service and without sending you to another phone number.
Do I have to change my ERP or my WMS?
No. The physical flow is automated and integrated with what you already have: your management system stays in charge and stays yours. Strattum, our software, takes care of the movements; your inventory stays with your system.
I already have an automated storage system. Is any of this any use to me?
Mostly on the way out. Goods-to-person systems handle storage very well and almost always end at a station where someone builds the pallet by hand. That is where mixed palletising fits, without touching what already works.
How do I know how much equipment I really need?
By emulating the journey with one day’s real movements before buying anything: you see where paths cross, where things wait and which stretch falls short in two years. It is the question that decides the whole budget.
Can it take my mix of formats?
It is the first question we ask. We handle everything from cardboard cases, trays, IFCO and KLT to sacks, drums, cartons and out-of-gauge parcels, and the mix shapes the whole journey —conveying, sorting, order building and throughput— far more than the total volume. That is why we analyse the flow before proposing equipment.
Does the warehouse have to stop for it to be installed?
It is planned stretch by stretch so the operation does not stop, and that planning is done in the emulation, not on site. It is one of the reasons for emulating: as well as sizing it, it says in what order to build it.
And if in two years the customer, the product or the volume changes?
The installations are modular: each stretch works on its own, combined, or added later, and much of the equipment can be reconfigured or moved. That difference looks technical and is in fact the financial decision of the project.
What traceability is left of each movement?
Every pallet and every case carries a record of where it went and when. It serves to answer a complaint, to audit, and to know which stretch is the one holding things back, which is almost never something paper can prove.
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Where
We work in 17 countries
And there are intralogistics installations of ours in Spain and the United Kingdom. All of them designed in Mungia.
- Mungia, where it is designed
- Country where we work
- Area with an intralogistics installation of ours
Think better automation
- Wider vision Look at the whole plant before touching a machine. What slows a line down is almost never where it hurts.
- Right decisions Decide with data: emulating, measuring and putting the numbers on the table before buying anything.
- Higher efficiency More uptime, better quality and processes that hold. Efficiency follows from them.
Let’s start with the stretch that is repeated most times a day.
There is nearly always a journey made dozens of times a shift that nobody has ever counted. That is where we look first, and where the decision worth making usually is.
