Automotive Industry

Craftsman has fulfilled the storage needs of the world's leading equipment manufacturers of agricultural, construction, forestry and tractor automotive industries. It’s headquartered at Pune, & has manufacturing and services facilities across India.

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  • Automotive Industry


  • Problem Statement

    Our customer’s storage space has been exhausted due to manually operated store and this impacted their productivity.

    Their current storage space is 120 square meters. They need to reduce the storage space of C and D class articles and utilize them for production activity.

    Continuous increase in farm equipment product range decreased the picking accuracy.

    The Solution

    Craftsman installed VStore, a space-saving solution that is also flexible to future storage requirements.

    The manually operated store was replaced with two VStore of 8m height occupying 20 square meters each, thus freeing up their valuable floor space.

    This transformed the “Man to Goods” method to “Goods to Man”, thus enabling high transparency, quick and reliable access to the articles. As a result, picking errors have been reduced significantly.

    Benefits to the customer

    The modular Technology of VStore from Craftsman Automation enabled

    Faster product delivery

    Improved stock control

    Minimized pick errors

    Efficient order picking

    Shorter lead times


    Installation Date: Dec-2018

    No of Cycles of 1st VStore: More than 300,000 cycles

    No of Cycles of 2nd VStore: More than 400,000 cycles

    Details of the VStore Installed

    ITEMS DESCRIPTION (in mm)
    Tray Size 2440 X 865 X 55 (W X D X H)
    Height of machine 8050
    Machine Foot print 2770 X 3070 (W X D)
    Number of Trays 54 / machine

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