Automated small parts warehouse - ASRS

From goods receipt to order picking ready for shipment—a smart system for small and medium-sized items

From incoming goods to shipping: the smart small parts warehouse for efficient processes in a small space

When hundreds of small items such as contact lenses, glasses, or similar products arrive at the warehouse every day, manual processes quickly reach their limits. Sorting and picking takes time and ties up staff.

Our automated small parts warehouse handles the entire material flow: packages are separated, recorded, checked for damage if necessary, stored in a space-saving manner, and made available for shipping directly if required. This ensures stable processes, fewer errors, and consistently high efficiency, even with increasing quantities. As a result, your employees gain time for more value-adding activities.

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Illustration of the smart small parts warehouse with robots and vertical lift, from delivery to automatic, order-based picking.
Automated small parts warehouse with vertical storage racks: efficient, space-saving material flow thanks to robots and intelligent storage technology.

Areas of application for our Smart Store System

Ideal for high diversity and limited space!

  • Retail, online retail
    – Glasses, contact lenses
    – Subscription boxes (beauty, food, technology, etc.)
    – Test kits & samples
    – Returns
    – And much more
  • Spare parts distribution, after-sales
    – Small machine parts
    – Accessories
    – Spare parts

Your advantages with our automated storage system

No waiting times

The system picks your orders overnight.

Highest process reliability

End-to-end automation reduces errors and ensures stable processes. 24/7

Modular concept

The system grows with your needs: later expansion is easy at any time.

Optimal use of space

The vertical storage system enables space-saving and secure storage of your products.

Fast return on investment

Reduced personnel costs and throughput times lead to a faster return on your investment.

Complete traceability

Barcode and vision technology ensure complete transparency in material flow.

Graphic shows problems with manual warehouse processes (time-consuming, error-prone, and costly). Avoid these challenges with an automated small parts storage system from AUTFORCE.

Challenges in manual warehouse processes

In modern fulfillment and logistics processes, a wide variety of items and packaging sizes arrive at the central warehouse every day.
Manual sorting and storage are time-consuming, error-prone, and expensive.
For small items in particular, this means high personnel costs, limited scalability, and increased costs per order.

Our solution: Compact storage for small parts

From unsorted delivery to customer order ready for shipping in 4 steps.

1. Goods receipt & feeding as bulk material

Incoming packages and small items are fed into the system unsorted as bulk goods. This enables flexible and fast handling of a wide variety of item sizes and shapes without prior manual sorting.

2. Intelligent bin picking with camera-assisted robot system

A camera-based robot system recognizes each individual package, picks it up precisely, and automatically separates the items. In this step, our system checks the packaging for integrity, abnormalities, and damage as needed.

At the same time, the barcode of each package is recorded and transmitted to the integrated warehouse management system or a higher-level warehouse management system (WMS). This means that every item is uniquely identified, traceable, and quality-checked right from the start—without any manual intervention.

3. Automatic, space-optimized storage in vertical storage

The scanned items are automatically stored in a space-saving vertical lift. This ensures optimal use of the available space and guarantees the safety of the goods.

4. Order-related, automated outsourcing and shipping preparation

The system picks your orders fully automatically using robots. Even at night and completely without personnel involvement (e.g., unmanned shift).

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Illustration of the smart AUTFORCE compact warehouse for small parts – automated process in 4 steps: goods receipt, bin picking, storage in the vertical warehouse, and shipping preparation.

Warehouse management

Thanks to the integrated warehouse management software autfactory, the system operates completely autonomously and can be seamlessly integrated into your existing ERP, WMS, or MES environment as needed. This allows you to maintain an overview of inventories, orders, and material flows at all times.

Display of the autfactory warehouse management software from AUTFORCE – automated inventory management and seamless integration into existing systems.

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Would you also like to automate your warehouse processes?

At AUTFORCE, we specialise in testing systems and industrial software. Get in touch with us. Together we will find the best solution for your task!

Christian Hanbauer
Expert Test Systems
+43 (664) 88 71 02 50
[email protected]

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