First of all, the three-dimensional warehouse calculates the size of shelves and how many cargo spaces can be divided according to the volume of the warehouse, so that the warehouse volume at each point can be fully utilized and will not be wasted. Take the automated warehouse of an airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where we just accepted Hercules as an example. In the past, our customer used our standard medium-sized shelf (200 kilograms of landing capacity, probably an old customer in 2002), because his warehouse was more than 4 meters high, and the height of the standard shelf was 2 meters, which caused a great waste of space. Every year when foreign customers pay a return visit, our technicians will go to their warehouses for inspection. When they saw that the warehouse was very high, they thought it was too wasteful to use a standard shelf of 2 meters. It is suggested to change it into a physical library. The client hesitated at first. After all, although these standard shelves have been used for eleven years now, they are all of good quality, except for two groups of man-made damage (a black forklift driver crashed two groups with a forklift), and the investment in the three-dimensional library is indeed several times that of the standard shelves, mainly for fear that it will affect the normal work (indeed, this money is really not a problem for the people of Dubai). According to the calculation of our engineers, if we change the three-dimensional warehouse, the storage space can be increased by 2.5 times, so that customers can save the original plan of building a new warehouse with the same warehouse because of the shortage of warehouses. Finally, after it was replaced by a physical library, and it was an automated three-dimensional library, the customer's warehouse increased from 3500 to 10800, almost tripling (this is because the customer occupied part of the warehouse space to support the office and dormitory).
Secondly, if it's just a three-dimensional warehouse, it's all done by manpower or forklift. In fact, the utilization rate has not improved much, just using some space on the previous standard shelves. And if it is replaced by an automated three-dimensional warehouse, the warehouse can be used to the maximum extent by using automated equipment such as shuttle buses. Because forklifts enter and leave the warehouse manually, there should be a large aisle between each row of shelves to facilitate the walking, turning and safe operation of forklifts. The largest area of the warehouse is actually for forklifts. After using the automated three-dimensional warehouse, all the storage is completed by shuttle buses, and the whole storage area is a completely closed storage area, all of which are shelves and composed of pure cargo spaces. According to our previous example, the warehouse used by UAE customers is an automated three-dimensional warehouse, because our plan is to use the shuttle bus made in China, which owns all intellectual property rights of Hercules and several domestic patents. I'm a little hesitant to change clients here. After all, China goods give people the impression that they are cheap, simple and of good quality abroad. However, foreigners dare not use this high-tech thing. The customer once insisted on using the Italian shuttle bus, but for the sake of fairness and because we have cooperated for so many years, there is still some recognition. We hired several German experts for public bidding and selection. In the end, our car ferry scored the highest in terms of cost performance, especially the large tonnage lifting force required by customers (some parts of customers are very small, but they weigh more than two tons). At that time, our three-dimensional warehouse with the strongest 3-ton lifting capacity in the world and the only one that can be hoisted and work normally (this 3-ton lifting technology) was built, and the number of customers increased by nearly three times. Because of automation, the number of former warehouse managers has decreased by two-thirds, which saves a lot of money for a place with high human resource cost like UAE. The storage time is more than doubled than before, and it is also much more convenient.
Finally. Although the cost of automated three-dimensional warehouse is six or seven times or even higher than that of ordinary standard shelves (a shuttle bus is hundreds of thousands, and the cheap lifting capacity is 80,000 to 90,000), the utilization rate is much higher, and it can basically be fully utilized. Moreover, the efficiency is much higher, which saves a lot of warehouse managers and warehouse workers (the shuttle bus is remote-controlled, and the advanced can be programmed to realize automatic storage).