Industry brief

Warehousing & Logistics

Control systems that move the right load to the right place, first time.

What matters

What matters most

Modern warehouses are judged on speed and accuracy. Conveyors, cranes, shuttles and automated vehicles must move the right load to the right place first time, keep stock visible to your warehouse systems and recover fast from faults. The people around them must stay safe, while volumes swing with the season.

Throughput at peak

Orders must leave on time, especially at peak. Conveyors, cranes and sortation have to route every load the best way and recover quickly from faults.

Knowing where everything is

Every tote, pallet and carton needs tracking from receipt to despatch, with the control system and your warehouse management system kept in step at all times.

People and automation

Cranes, shuttles, automated vehicles and conveyors share space with people. Safety functions, guarding and safe maintenance access must meet machinery standards and your risk assessment.

Uptime and maintenance

Unplanned stoppages cost orders and overtime. Clear alarms, fault diagnostics and maintenance reporting help your team fix problems quickly and plan maintenance before it becomes urgent.

Solutions

Solutions for Warehousing

Matrix implemented the software, electrical and SCADA system for a material handling system: conveyors, cranes, turntables, tote and pallet handling, and storage. It routes material by the ideal path, stores in-demand product dynamically, consolidates items onto single pallets, and provides SCADA recipe handling, maintenance reporting and MES part tracking.

01Conveyors, turntables and transfers

02Stacker cranes and automated storage

03Tote and pallet handling

04Palletising and order consolidation

05WMS, WCS and MES integration

06SCADA, recipes and maintenance reporting

How we help

What we bring to Warehousing

Most warehouse automation goes into a building that is already trading. We prove routing and storage logic against a simulated system before site, phase cut-overs around your peaks and agree interfaces to your WMS early. You receive the design, code and safety documentation to run and extend the system yourselves.

Upgrades

Standards

The standards that shape your project

The standards listed are those most often relevant to control-system work in this sector. Which apply to your project, and how, is agreed with you at specification stage.

Standard	What it covers	How we work with it
BS EN 619	Safety of conveyors and handling equipment for unit loads such as totes, cartons and pallets.	Guarding, stops, interlocks and control functions designed to its requirements.
BS EN 528	Safety of rail-dependent storage and retrieval machines such as stacker cranes.	Crane control, travel limits and safe maintenance access designed against its requirements.
BS EN 15095	Safety of power-operated mobile racking and shelving, carousels and storage lifts.	Controls and interlocks for these units integrated so they work safely within the wider system.
BS EN ISO 3691-4	Safety of driverless industrial trucks, such as AGVs and AMRs, and the areas they work in.	Interfaces between vehicles, conveyors and doors designed so hand-offs and safety zones are clearly defined.
BS EN ISO 13849-1	Design of safety-related parts of control systems, rated by performance level.	Safety functions specified, designed and validated to the performance level your risk assessment requires.
Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008	GB law on machinery safety: essential requirements, conformity assessment, marking and declaration.	Designs, risk assessments and documentation that support the technical file for the installed system.