Design and implementation of automation system for a storage facility

Pitching a fast product to the market as well as with the same standard along with decreasing the total cost is one of the main objects of companies engaging with serial production. Though, not only production, whole process that from production to the marketing (development, manufacturing, logistic) is required to be conducted within a way that faster, effective, flexible and manageable. This study deals with the improvement of the efficiency and speed of the storage line in a storage facility in which logistics activities include storage of products, shipments of products to customers, sorting of incoming products by product and seize based operations. The storage plant is divided to fields according to operational specifications in order to investigate the process of storage as modular. The proposed improvement contains five conveyor lines which are a part of the storage system. In these part of the storage system, where the first product to be prepared comes in common with the final product, the control structure that operates depending on the counter has been improved by replacing it with the controller based on the density states of incoming / outgoing lines. According to system's previous state, a considerable increase has been observed in the product storage capacity under the same operating conditions