International automotive manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has started the second phase of construction of its logistics operations centre in the United Kingdom with the help of intralogistics provider Dematic.
With external works on the new facility complete, Dematic has begun installing their intralogistics equipment and automation technologies.
Once in place, the equipment will go through a thorough period of testing.
The new Logistics Operations Centre (LOC) comprises a 92,000 square metre warehouse building and ancillary offices and is expected to be fully operational by late 2022.
Andy Blandford, Dematic Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Northern Europe, commented on its latest project for the manufacturer.
“We are pleased to have the opportunity to collaborate with a business such as Jaguar Land Rover which is so committed to industry leading standards of sustainability and technology,” Blandford said.
“We look forward to completing this project in 2022,” he said.
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The site is Jaguar Land Rover’s solution to increasingly complex supply chain challenges and is a key part of the manufacturer’s future strategy.
Located in close proximity to the main manufacturing plant in Solihull, Jaguar Land Rover calculates that the new facility will enable it to cut about three million goods vehicle miles per year from the roads, reducing a significant amount of carbon emissions, as well as long-term logistics costs and traffic congestion in the local area.
Meanwhile, the LOC will use some of the most advanced automated supply chain technologies available to ensure the facility can provide maximum output from the smallest possible footprint.
Automated equipment will pick huge volumes of products extremely efficiently, while the facility has been designed with a ‘goods-to-person’ mindset – meaning that operatives do not need to walk significant distances to retrieve items: the parts come to them.
These systems have been designed to manage multiple workflows on the same line, allowing Jaguar Land Rover and Dematic to condense the footprint of the facility while giving operators the ability to process 1,000 pallets per hour.
Source: Dematic