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Richard Bercich
Maximising your existing operational footprint
For companies experiencing growth, it can be tempting to look at establishing an additional warehouse to cope with demand. But the capital expenditure and ongoing costs mean payback can take a long time. Instead, many e-commerce, retail, and industrial companies are looking at ways to maximise their existing operational footprint with intelligent and space-saving automation solutions, with a quick ROI.
For example, Swisslog is the world’s leading AutoStore integrator. AutoStore is a high density grid-based automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS). It provides better use of available space than any other automated system due to its unique design that enables direct stacking of bins on top of each other and storage of multiple SKUs in a single bin.
Another example is Swisslog’s PowerStore high density shuttle system for pallet warehousing, which is ideally suited to warehouses with low ceilings, fewer unique products and high throughput requirements.
Swisslog installed a PowerStore solution for leading beverage distribution specialist, BevChain (a wholly owned subsidiary of Linfox), which increased storage by around 60% within the same warehouse space.
The new 24/6 BevChain facility includes over 30,000 pallet locations, with vertical conveyors transferring pallets to and from one of five levels. It has 20 satellite AisleCarriers and RowCarriers, one in each level of the four quadrants transferring pallets to and from their location. This is all pre-determined by Swisslog’s intelligent SynQ software.
About Richard
Richard Bercich is a sales consultant at Swisslog Australia and New Zealand. Richard has more than a decade of experience across defence, robotics, and logistics automation industries for manufacturing and industrial businesses.
Richard has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) Hons 1 from University of Sydney, and gains particular satisfaction from seeing a customer achieve new levels of competitiveness with safe, automated, and autonomous systems.
He has built up particular expertise focused on systems engineering and controls automation for mobile autonomous robotics to meet the needs of manufacturing and industrial B2B customers. Richard has consistently designed, commissioned, and installed multiple AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) systems for manufacturing businesses with two-year paybacks, or shorter.
Outside of the office, Richard enjoys spending time with his family, and is interested in baseball, reading, and robotics.