ELOKON implements large project for a new Amazon Logistics Centre

ELOKON @ Amazon logistics centre Graben
large project implementation completed

Going forward, Amazon will be relying on ELOKON’s pedestrian alert safety technology at their Logistics Centre in Graben. Comprising 6 warehouses and with a total area equivalent to 17 football pitches, the distribution centre is one of the largest in Germany and by the end of 2016, 25 new Crown High-Level Order Pickers there will have been equipped with ELOKON’s mobile pedestrian alert system ELOprotect which was specially developed for very narrow aisles.

The Project at a glance

25

VNA forklift trucks

6

warehouses and with a total area equivalent to 17 football pitches

Very narrow aisles

were made more safe with ELOprotect PSS

Individual

solution tailored to Amazon's requirements

The Background
Large warehouse requires high level of safety

Two secrets of Amazon’s phenomenal success are the speed with which they fulfil their orders and their enormous product range. In the newly designed warehouse, forklifts produced by the U.S. company Crown will be transporting an almost bewildering assortment of shoes through the very narrow aisles and onto the high shelves. In this busy environment, accident and collision prevention is essential and that is where ELOprotect PSS comes in.

The Solution
ELOprotect PSS protects against accidents

The proven ELOKON safety system ELOprotect uses intelligent laser technology to help prevent accidents in warehouses by slowing down forklifts when people are detected. With ELOprotect PSS, which is specifically designed to prevent accidents between narrow aisle vehicles and pedestrians, the vehicles are equipped with laser scanners that continuously scan the narrow aisle. In the case of Amazon forklifts, this is primarily the area in front of the vehicle, as Amazon's aisles form a one-way system and the forklifts only move in one direction.

How it works
Automatic braking

As soon as the forklift enters one of the narrow aisles, ELOprotect PSS is activated: if an unauthorised person is in the narrow aisle and a vehicle is moving towards them, it is automatically slowed down when it reaches a scanner field up to 7 m long. In addition, the driver is alerted to this dangerous situation by visual and acoustic signals on their display and control module.

System implementation within 6 months

When the first brand new Crown forklifts equipped with ELOKON’s state of the art pedestrian alert safety system made their first journeys through the aisles of the Amazon logistics centre at the end of August, this marked the on schedule completion of a project that had only taken six months from start to finish.

Even for ELOKON, a schedule that tight for a project of this size was a challenge, but then, Amazon are famous for their speed of delivery after all!

Close cooperation with Amazon and Crown

Furthermore, ELOKON has worked in cooperation with the OEM manufacturer Crown to modify the forklifts to Amazon’s desired specifications: the ELOprotect anti-collision functionality will also prevent unauthorised reversing of vehicles, a particularly hazardous manoeuvre in the Amazon warehouse operating environment.

The already proven cooperation between Crown and ELOKON continued in the initial phase of this project to include training and support of the Crown employees during the system installation. Moreover, ELOKON trained Crown employees on the practical use of the pedestrian alert system once it was installed in High-Level Order Pickers.

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