Extension of partnership
June 1st 2008 Festo, a provider of automation
technology, appointed Witron as
general contractor for the fourth
construction phase of the Festo
Customer Support Center (CSC),
based in St. Ingbert-Rohrbach,
Saarland. The conclusion of the
contract continues the successful
partnership (established in 1995) of
the two companies.
The main reason for the CSC
expansion was to further increase
the high service level for Festo's
300,000+ customers located in 176
countries. With construction phase
four, Festo will be able to supply
parts to all of its end customers in
Central Europe within 24 hours after
receipt of order. The core
component of the expansion is the
Witron tote picking system OPS
(Order Picking System), which
enables the storage and order
picking integrated in one system.
The newly constructed sector
includes an automatic small parts
warehouse with 14 aisles, 68,000
totes that are sub-divided and 10
workstations, each able to provide
the entire article range containing
more than 30,000 articles for order
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