Article | REF: AG7250 V1

Stacker cranes

Author: Sylvain CERISE

Publication date: July 10, 2003

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1. Fields of application

Introduced simultaneously in the mid-1960s in Switzerland, Germany and the United States, stacker cranes need to be considered in the context of their environment: that of warehousing and order picking.

Here we take a look at the various applications that share the same functions:

  • storage (placing in stock, removing from stock) ;

  • order picking.

The stacker cranes are therefore part of the supply chain controlled by the information system (figures 1 , 2 and 3...

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