Space Shuttle
July 1st 2010 Complementing its existing racking
and pallet storage systems, fluid
power component stockist, Flowtech
has invested in 13 Kardex Shuttle XP
systems – resulting in improved
picking times, release of floor space
and optimisation of storage efficiency.
Medium to slow-moving, small to
medium-sized parts are stored in the
Shuttle units, which store over 40,000
products in a space of just 250m2.
This compares favourably with the
legacy approach, which would have
needed 450m2 to store 7000 products.
The Kardex Shuttles work in
families and pods, a pod being two
shuttles running in tandem, with a
family consisting
of up to three
pods. Upon receipt
of picking data
from the back
office system for a
family, the shuttle
units work in pairs
so, as one part is
being picked at the
first Shuttle, the
next part is being indexed and
positioned at the other Shuttle. More articles from Kardex Systems (UK) Ltd: | 
