Intelligent storage crane, the first use in agriculture

In the field of agriculture, the use of Intelligent Machinery instead of manual operation has become a trend.Henan Kuangshan co, Ltd. has made outstanding achievements in the lifting industry, taking the lead in introducing intelligent lifting machinery into the field of industrial transportation of agriculture.Jin county in Shandong, the famous hometown of garlic in nation.

This county has a long history of planting garlic and the area of planting garlic is about 46,662 million square meters every year, the first county (city) in China with a total output of over 800,000 tons.

Every year, during the harvest season of garlic, obesity and large garlic heads pile up into “hills”. In the warehouse, workshop, quality inspectors, porters and workers shuttle between the "Garlic Mountain". The unique pungent odor of garlic makes the environment so bad that the workers have to wear oxygen masks in order to work continuously for long periods of time.

Through long-term attention to agriculture, Henan Kuangshan have a deep understanding of the storage methods about the garlic industry and found that there is a great room for improvement in storage methods and land utilization. According to the actual investigation, Our company proposed a new garlic storage program, which was quickly recognized by many local garlic-growing enterprises.

The new storage scheme changed the original small basket storage process, and the finished garlic was stored in a special large basket, and a special large basket lifting spreader was designed. The large basket code was automatically recognized by the intelligent crane, and the automatic stacking and automatic delivery were performed.  It can completely replace artificial stacking. This program has received high attention and support from local governments and garlic companies.

In 2018, The (8+8) t Intelligent Storage Crane Henan Kuangshan designed and manufactured for "garlic to the World" Industrial Park of Lingdong Electronic Technology Co., Ltd in Shandong province, which was formally put into use.

The crane is the first automatic storage crane used in agriculture in China. It has large span, long running distance, high lifting height, fast running speed, stable operation without fluctuation, and many positioning points (more than 1,400 high-precision positioning points). The precision is high ≤±5mm (the spreader) and the stack 4 is over 5 and so on. The manual (remote control) + semi-automatic + fully automatic control system is adopted to realize the docking with the database in the background, and the intelligent terminal(IT) is connected to each other, and the state of the stored goods can be monitored in real time. The machine also uses automatic spreader grab, place, palletizing, automatic positioning, electric anti-shake, remote monitoring, intelligent management and so on.

The successful development of the crane brings the following advantages:

1. Make high-density storage possible, and greatly improve land utilization and save space. Due to the use of intelligent storage cranes, the utilization rate of the cold storage is greatly improved. For example, its single cold storage capacity is 60,000 tons, which is 10 times of the conventional cold storage efficiency according to the calculation of land use efficiency.

2. It takes advantage of computer technology to track information, location storage, loading optimization and positioning operations on large baskets,  and it can operate 24 hours without interruption and reduce the downtime, get the real-time information on tracking of unmanned driving, which ensures consistent information accuracy and reduces the loss of manual lifting about large basket by means of accurate positioning and anti-shake technology. 

3. Cost saving. The cost savings are comprehensive. The first is the electricity bill. The more concentrated the general cooling space, the less the external heat exchange per unit space, so the power is saved. Secondly, the standardized business process operation assisted by the system greatly reduces the number of personnel on the service node. In addition, the highly coordinated cooperation makes the time for warehousing and storage greatly shortened, so that it saves time, the three points above will reduce the storage total cost by 60%.

4. Liberating productivity. Since the entire warehouse is fully intelligent, the degree of automation is greatly improved. In the past, a factory building required 20 to 30 workers with strong physical strength and in the poor environment, and wearing cotton coats and masks with gas masks to work. But now, only two people are needed. It takes only 5 minutes to load and unload a cart, which is the 100 times of conventional manual operation efficiency. 

With the deep integration of artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing and agriculture, agriculture is no longer sheer “agriculture”, and the comprehensive competitiveness of agricultural enterprises in China and the world will usher in an explosive increase. As a practitioner of “Made in China 2025”, Henan Kuangshan will actively respond to the call of the country for the benefit of agriculture, industrial manufacturing, energy conservation and environmental protection, build a bridge connecting industry and agriculture, and add momentum to the development of modern agriculture.