Development of
Automated Warehouses
Historically warehouses were a dominant part of the urban landscape from the start of the Industrial Revolution through the 19th century and into the twentieth century. It was not until the 1960s where automated warehousing began to arise, focussing on lifting and moving heavy payloads. Automated warehousing systems have developed enormously over the last thirty years. The pinnacle of warehouse automation in the 80’s was a fully automated high bay pallet store using stacker cranes and pallet conveyors, which dramatically reduced the footprint and labour needed to store a given volume of product. Whilst these benefits are still true today, automated systems have been developed well beyond the storage and retrieval of unit loads, and modern systems now include sortation, picking and packing. To enable the smaller unit loads such as totes, cartons and, in some cases, individual pick items to be handled automatically. Our automated warehouse would be useful as a crane-type machine in an factory. It would be usefull for transferrin objects in a straight line.