Background
Shandong Lead CNC Machinery Co., Ltd., founded in 2007, is a national high-tech enterprise specializing in the design, R&D, manufacturing, and sales of intelligent aluminum door & window production lines. As the first company in the industry to truly realize the implementation of smart door & window factories, Lead CNC has ranked first in national sales of smart production lines for home door & window manufacturing for five consecutive years.
Lead CNC is a highly automated door & window intelligent equipment manufacturer. In the process of building a smart factory, improving production line automation and ensuring smoother overall production have always been the company’s key focus.
Pain Points
Prior to introducing the Modula solution, Lead CNC faced the following challenges:
- Low efficiency of traditional storage: Aluminum profiles, standard components, and equipment spare parts were stored using traditional shelving and manual stacking, resulting in low retrieval efficiency and requiring employees to make repeated trips to locate materials.
- Insufficient space utilization: Traditional shelving occupied significant floor space, restricting production line layout and factory space optimization.
- Mismatch between material management and production rhythm: With the upgrade of automated production lines, traditional manual picking and counting methods could no longer keep up with the pace of efficient production.
Solution
In 2023, at an industry exhibition, Lead CNC’s relevant department visited the Modula vertical lift module. The on-site demonstration was impressive: it can replace traditional shelving by managing materials in a centralized, intelligent, and efficient manner, making it particularly suitable as a line-side storage solution for automated production lines. This product perfectly aligned with Lead’s automation development direction. After returning to the factory, the company quickly conducted research and deployed the VLM.
Now, this VLM has been deployed as an intelligent line-side storage unit, seamlessly integrated into Lead CNC’s automated production line system. Positioned close to the production line, it is mainly used to store aluminum profile materials, standard components, tools, and equipment spare parts. Compared with traditional manual picking and stacking, the VLM achieves full-process automation from storage, retrieval, to inventory counting through efficient use of vertical space and intelligent system scheduling. It has freed up valuable floor space while eliminating the need for employees to make repeated trips, enabling rapid response to inbound and outbound demands and making production line operations smoother and more compact.
