The goods-to-man principle is consistly implemented here, thus eliminating any non-productive time. Standard SCS consist of four rotating carousels, each with a decoupled and an automatic loading / unloading unit. The dense and thus space saving stocking of the shelves allows for a capacity of up to 6,000 bins.

This is completed by an almost unlimited flexibility with regard to the variety of items and the enormous economic efficiency of the system.

With 4 kW, the SCS needs only 15 percent of the energy of conventional storage systems (SRM).

The standard bin provides the basis of each system module, which in its basic design corresponds to an automatic small parts storage system (miniload). The SCS standard bins - SSI Schäfer's own production - can be divided into a maximum of 16 different partitions and have a load capacity of up to 25 kilograms. The storage bins are handled by novel and fully automated lifts with load carrying devices.

In vertical and / or horizontal conveying directions, they retrieve the bins from their storage locations in four aisles and transfer them to the integrated conveyor system (loop) of the carousel system, which takes the bins to the order-picking positions.

When compared to other conventional systems on the market, the decoupling of movements achieved in this way enables you to double the performance solely in what comes to the storage cycles of the lifts.

Moreover, replenishment processes can be perfectly integrated into order-picking operations without any losses in efficiency.