Industrial Software - Maestro+

Modules

WCS pallet factory

This Maestro+ module is used to control an automated palletising system (from Alvey/Scott or another provider). The Maestro+ WCS Pallet Factory manages:

• The master data required for palletising.
• The palletising flow for single and multiple production lines.
• The interaction between Maestro+, the production lines and the palletiser.
• A connection with the production line with integrated traceability.

WCS conveyor

This module controls the product flow in the warehouse on the conveyor. The WCS conveyor communicates in real time with the PLC. With the necessary data, the WCS ensures that all products arrive at the right location. It triggers events to other modules via attribution when needed, e.g. to print labels.

WCS ASRS (automatic storage & retrieval system)

This module manages and controls the automated warehouse by:

• Interfacing with miniloads (e.g. boxes) and stacker cranes (e.g. pallets).
• Interfacing with multi shuttle system.
• Generating all entry and exit missions for loads (articles, boxes and pallets).
• Optimising missions of stacker cranes.

WCS order preparation

This module can be used for various ways of automated order picking, e.g. order picking using barcode scanners, pick-to-light, pick-to-voice or pick-to-vision. Maestro+ communicates with hardware provided by third parties.

WCS AGV (automated guided vehicle)

This module manages and controls the Automated Guided Vehicles. Maestro+ integrates the supervisory management of the AGV system for a seamless user experience throughout the entire system. The module generates and controls pick and drop missions and optimizes these missions.

Cockpit

The cockpit was designed to give a detailed insight of the performance of the palletising installation, such as how the infeed/outfeed of the tables is going during a certain period, what the load factor of the palletisers are, if there are potential bottlenecks in the installation. If there is, for example, a drop in output, the cockpit will be able to trace this back to the origin. The cockpit allows the customer to have capacity and occupancy monitoring and planning.

Slotting & mapping

This software solution makes it possible to manage your warehouse to its best, by optimising: the stock volumes, the number of operators and the order preparation cycle. The first two are included in the 'Slotting' part of the software. By analysing the stock and the order details, every product gets the most optimal location in the warehouse.

This selection happens on the number of products in stock, the frequency of picking and replenishment and type of emplacement this product needs. By estimating the time needed to handle an order and analysing the productivity of employees, the perfect number of required employees can be calculated.

The third part is included in the 'Mapping' part of the software, where optimization of the warehouse locations is made possible. This can be done by analysing the products that are frequently ordered together and place them near to each other in the warehouse. This process reduces the order picking time, and results in a more efficient way of working.