Four Hänel Lean-Lift® systems, with a height of 13 meters extending upward through three floors, compactly store about 8,000 different items. Goods are received on the ground floor, while orders for the production area are filled on the upper two floors. 

Central storage management based on SAP 

All electronic components on inventory, including their quantities and storage positions, are recorded in the ERP system and are managed exclusively with SAP. This is possible thanks to the seamless link between the Hänel Lean-Lift® systems and SAP. 

Pick orders are generated and released directly in SAP. The Hänel controller is linked directly to SAP thanks to the SOAP interface. And thanks to the SAP template from prismat, the SAP dialogs are displayed in real time on the high-resolution touchscreens of the controller units. In other words, the Hänel controller itself becomes an SAP terminal.

When an employee uses the controller to select and confirm electronic components for retrieval, the extractor brings the requisite multifunction container directly to the access point. The storage locations on the multifunction containers are displayed graphically on the controller to help prevent picking errors.

Each time the Hänel controller is used to confirm item retrieval directly in SAP, the overall inventory status is automatically updated. Each component is given a label and allocated to the appropriate job order. This is then transferred to the production area on the same floor.

graphic display of storage positions in the SAP template  

Components which are going into inventory are scanned with a barcode reader directly at the storage system. SAP books the item type and quantity before allocating the unoccupied storage positions available in the Lean-Lift®.

The requisite multifunction container is brought to the access point. The SAP template in the Hänel controller gives system operators a graphic presentation of the relevant storage positions on the multifunction container.

Safe storage of electronic components in Hänel Lean-Lifts® with ESD features 

Hänel Lean-Lift® storage systems are unique solutions that are ideal for sensitive electronic metrological components.

Hänel Lean-Lift® containers with antistatic coatings are perfect for the safeguarded storage of sensitive electronic and metrological components. The Hänel Rotomat® system is especially suited for the fast, flexible and safe provisioning of electronic components of various sizes.

Safety is an important factor in the design of all Hänel storage systems. The use of high-speed doors supports simultaneous order picking on each lift system at all three access points.

Lean-Lift® pallet storage with access points on three floors   

In addition to the four storage systems that supply items to the production area, a fifth Hänel Lean-Lift® is in operation for pallet storage. Since the access points are flush with the floor, entire pallets can be put into or removed from the lift systems with hand trucks.

This pallet system also features one access point on each of the building’s three floors, and it is also equipped with Hänel EcoDrive technology. It goes without saying that this lift system is also linked to SAP and is thus managed centrally by the ERP system.