INTEGRATED COMPUTER-BASED PLANNING AND VISUALISATION OF WAREHOUSES

While the time from the placing of an order up to the acceptance of a warehouse system becomes shorter, the requirement of the later operators in functionality, quality and economic efficiency rises constantly. Since the phase of realisation, to which for example the building and the assembly of the conveying and storage engineering belong, offers hardly any temporal saving possibilities, the planning time has to be shortened. The relevance of planning opposes this demand. Planning has not only a substantial influence on the transformation phase, but also on the later business and economic efficiency during the entire life cycle of the plant. So the quality of planning must not decrease. Rather it has be developed accordingly to its meaning. A constant computer-assisted planning can help to shorten the period of planning while at the same time improve its results. Especially during substantial calculation and drawing works considerable saving possibilities can come into existence.