SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES TECHNICAL REVIEW
Physical Distribution System in Beer Breweries
Eiji KAWAGUCHI and Shinya SAITOH
Physical Distribution System in Beer Breweries
Asahi Breweries, Ltd. is our most important customer in the food industry, and our company has delivered a number of physical distribution systems to Asahi Breweries. To achieve the delivery of these systems, we have been required to develop a large-scale AS/RS (Automated Storage and Retrieval System) technology and an automatic picking device, and it can be said that our technologies for physical distribution systems have grown in line with the growth of SUPER DRY. However, since beer consumption has stagnated in the beer industry in recent years, breweries are faced with many tasks such as the transformation to comprehensive liquor manufacturers and efforts to conserve the environment. Our company is also responsible for providing products that correspond to these tasks, and will have to work on the development of systems such as an inventory control system using the RFID and a system for increasing the truck loading efficiency in the future.