The automated warehouse system created for the

Sant’Anna Hospital in Como (Italy) was designed to allow the structure to have a more efficient management of incoming and outgoing products, and to optimize spaces.

 

The robotic warehouse has a total theoretical capacity of about 50,000 products and it serves for the distribution of products in three other hospital units (Cantù, Mariano Comense and Menaggio).

The system takes up about a third of the space that would otherwise be occupied by a traditional warehouse and consist of three robotic units working in parallel, between which the workload is equally divided. The use of three units guarantees greater working speed and safety: the warehouse can function optimally even if one or even two robotic units stop working.

The system manages more than 60% of the daily deliveries of the warehouse:  700 references with the highest turnover.

 

About its workflow, it all begins when the single package is poured, together with many other products, into the automatic loader which sorts and loads them into one of the three robotic units. The robot also allows the staff to managing data like lot and expiration dates in an efficient and reliable way.

When the operator need a product stocked into the robot, a socket picks up the single package, deposits it on a roller conveyor that leads to a specific box also equipped with a unique bar code.