Them along with shipments to customers who are experiencing difficulties.” For instance, a customer in India wasn’t satisfied with the quality of the parts they received. He was showing the visitors a small yellow device and telling them about a pilot they were running with five of these ‘smart sensors’, which can measure temperature, humidity and light. Is not a department, but an attitude,” one of the employees in a light green vest smiled. The visitors entered a climate-controlled area (always 20° C), where high-tech equipment, such as a large coordinate measuring machine, is used to check part quality and numbers. Last year, over 100,000 deliveries were shipped from here to more than 180 different countries. Around 27 million pieces are in stock with over 83,500 unique parts. Altogether, there are 120 Wärtsilä and 210 partner-companyĮmployees who work here. It covers the entire material flow from order intake to delivery. The Central Distribution Centre, which opened in 2010, has a floor space of 37,000 m2. Regional centres will be established in new locations.Īn orange robot crane comes near in the 20-metre high, fully automated High Bay area in the Central Distribution Centre in Kampen, the Netherlands Smart sensors “When the goods are located closer to the customer with optimised inventories and flexible delivery points, we can deliver them faster.” In the coming years, Parts availability and regional presence. “This shows in advance when something needs to be replaced, which increases reliability.” Wärtsilä also recently invested significantly in its global spare Wärtsilä’s director of Global Logistics Services, Christian Rönnholm, mentioned that the company implements condition-based maintenance, providing maintenance to engines and “It would be brilliant if Wärtsilä could predict how long their engines can run and when to buy new parts.”
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“It’s only logical that we look together at how to improve processes.” He added that while digitalisation can make things faster, it’s important that people developĪccording to him, in the coming years, it will become increasingly important to know in advance which products are needed when and where, so the right goods are available immediately, while still keeping supplies limited. “It starts with communicating and understanding each other,” said Rob Scharff, Global Purchasing & Logistics manager from Stolt Tankers B.V. Seminars and workshops were a very important part of the customer event Digitalisation’s soft side Term meaning ‘the real place, the real thing, the real people’ - the visitors, divided in small groups, learned more about transportation, warehousing, parts supply, and quality assurance. Named ‘Powering the supply chain – Logistics without boundaries’.Īs they walked through the highly automated warehouse, they were passed by a yellow-vested forklift-driver on one side and grey plastic boxes moving along a conveyor belt on the other. He had joined others from companies around the globe for the technology group’s customer event,
“That’s impressive,” commented one of the visitors, wearing an orange safety vest and safety shoes. It picked a wooden pallet off the orange racks and returned at a speed of 11 kilometres an hour. They were standing in the 20-metre high, fully automated so-called High Bay area in the Central Distribution Centre. An orange robot crane zoomed towards the group of Wärtsilä’s customers.
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