automated warehouse

Building five automated warehouses is difficult enough, but the company decided that four of them had to be operating by Christmas 1999.

(They took up too much space in the automated warehouse system.)

Q. Your automated warehouses help you keep discount prices?

Baxter keeps enough supplies for both institutions in an automated warehouse with only 44,000 square feet.

Fingerhut has three highly automated warehouses, each with 1.2 million square feet.

Hawks had insisted on a completely automated warehouse.

In the brilliant design of the automated warehouse, the furnace supplied heat for the winter months and electricity all year long.

Amazon is spending more than $300 million to build seven automated warehouses around the United States.

In most cases it can then tell automated warehouse equipment to fetch the part from the shelf and send it to the shipping area.

For example, an automated warehouse may use a radio-controlled crane that is operated by a computer to retrieve a particular item.

"I ran an automated warehouse system."

And many may be retrained for jobs as newsroom receptionists, school custodians or clerks in automated warehouses.

As a practical matter, Circuit City has been able to centralize its entire supply operation in three highly automated warehouses.

The chain was the first in the West to install electronic cash register scanners and recently built a highly automated warehouse that uses robots.

And it has built four new automated warehouses that give it the capacity to pack, wrap and ship nearly a million boxes a day.

Compare that with Amazon.com, which lost $720 million in 1999, largely by investing in marketing and very expensive infrastructure, like automated warehouses.

"But we make money on inventory turns, and if you sell one canoe, say, a year, it makes no sense to keep it in our expensive automated warehouse."

When the business floated in July 2010 it argued that the automated warehouse differentiated it from rivals, who usually pick their online deliveries in store.

The company now operates its online grocery in a single market, the San Francisco Bay area, from a 330,000-square-foot, largely automated warehouse in Oakland.

It has an automated underground ammunition depot that allows ammunition to be loaded onto the ships and an automated warehouse system to store items.

It features one of the largest automated warehouses in Europe, capable of handling 282,000 pallets of filled and unfilled glass containers.

Until the remodeling, the vestibule and monk's quarters had been the control room for an automated warehouse, and the regulating equipment was still located close at hand.

But she said eToys then overcompensated in trying to correct the problem, building a vast automated warehouse in Virginia to bring the packing and shipping in-house.

Pallet users want pallets to easily pass through buildings, stack and fit in racks, forklifts, pallet jacks and automated warehouses.

Doppelmayr Garaventa's LTW division produces automated warehouse technology.