Greiner Bio-One

Greiner Bio-One is a leading manufacturer and seller of plastic products for the fields of biotechnology, blood collection, and specimen collection.

Industry: Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences

Location: Germany

Challenges:

The existing high-bay warehouse dating from the 1980s could no longer cope with the dynamic development of the company’s business in the last few years. The company’s challenges included:

• Storing goods were held at additional locations
• Extended capacity and greater efficiency were needed

Solutions Implemented:

Greiner Bio-One completed a retrofit of the existing plant to ensure that it could keep up with increasing demands. The company implemented:

• Stacker cranes and conveyor system including control and interface
• Camera systems on board the stacker cranes
• Stages in the picking area
• Crossovers for conveyor systems
• Automation Solutions

Benefits:

The new technology lifted Greiner Bio-One’s intralogistics to a new level, providing a variety of benefits:

• Doubled capacity of pallet storing
• Efficient layout of existing company building
• Warehouse performance increased by a factor of five