Mechanical Design of Mini Automated Storage and Retrieval Warehouse System for Electronic Components

Abstract

Automated storage and retrieval warehouse systems (ASRS) have been implemented in industrial for few decades. This kind of combination of project has become common in current industry field. Refer to Pa. Pittsburgh, the enhancement of ASRS has helped to improve optimal stock capacity in limited space and minimize process flow time. The purpose of this project is to design a hardware prototype that can fulfill the concept of ASRS and can be implemented at electronic components store that requires store management. This is to improve the process in stock checking and also store or retrieve item. Furthermore, there have several major parts that can be considered to use this hardware such as method of store and retrieve, storage structure, movement of the machine and machine travelling system. The timing belt system is implemented on this hardware for performing linear X-Y-Z motions. Besides, the concept of pallets supported rack had been implemented in storage structure design. Last but not least, the concept of an automated guided machine travels to the desired location on rack is selected as a store and retrieve method for this hardware.