Background
Dalian Lewa Pumps is a company focusing on customized fluid solutions. Its main products include the R&D and manufacturing of metering pumps and process diaphragm pumps.
The company originated in Germany and was established in 1952. It currently has 14 subsidiaries on five continents around the world, and its business covers a wide range of industries such as petrochemicals, natural gas, life sciences, and pharmaceuticals.
Pain Points
Before 2023, Lewa Pumps will still use traditional shelves for warehouse management. However, due to the increasing types of materials, warehouse management has gradually become a headache for them:
- Storage space is tight: the materials are piling up more and more, but the space is becoming more and more limited.
- Low efficiency in incoming and outgoing warehouses: especially high-altitude goods must be accessed with the help of ladders, which is time-consuming and poses safety risks. Inconvenient access to materials will also affect the overall production rhythm of the production line.
- Employees work intensively: frequent movement to move materials is very labor intensive.
- Warehousing pace is slow: there are occasional “stuck points” in the production process.
Solution
“At the end of 2023, while browsing a WeChat video account, we accidentally saw the practical application case of Modula’s smart lifting container. The local cases shown in the video also made us realize that this is not a story of ‘foreign brands + domestic acclimatization’, but a mature and trustworthy solution. ”Through in-depth investigation, the customer found that Modula not only has a local factory in China, but also has large-scale production capabilities and its after-sales service is also very reliable. Therefore, they decided to take the lead in purchasing one for pilot application at the end of 2023.
The equipment operates continuously without fear of high-frequency scheduling. On average, there are hundreds of entries and exits every day, and it always maintains the same operating rhythm, without delays, crashes, or interruptions. In the entire system, it has become the most “stable” link. During the equipment debugging stage, our engineering staff reviewed its pallet lifting and pick-up and delivery displacements many times. Both the alignment accuracy and the smoothness of the pallet operation far exceeded expectations. The graphical touch screen interface is simple and intuitive, and combined with customized partitioning logic, operators can get started in less than 30 minutes. The performance of stability at the operation layer is a kind of trust that “there is no need to worry about the system jumping out”.
