Smart Oil Future：Empowering Petrochemical Supply Chain Safety and Efficiency with Automated Storage & Retrieval System

The traditional warehousing model faced four major challenges: high safety risks in hazardous chemical storage, with manual operations prone to safety accidents; difficulty in inventory management due to a wide variety and specifications of warehousing materials, with a 3% inventory discrepancy rate; low manual handling efficiency, with a daily outbound volume of less than 500 tons, unable to meet production and sales demands; and only 20% space utilization, resulting in severe land resource waste. An intelligent upgrade via an Automated Storage & Retrieval System (AS/RS) was urgently required.

• Safety-Focused Storage: An explosion-proof Automated Storage & Retrieval System was implemented, featuring explosion-proof stacker cranes, intelligent racks, and ventilation/firefighting systems, creating 15,000 explosion-proof storage positions for safe and isolated storage of hazardous chemicals.

• Full Automation: End-to-end automated operations from receiving, storage, inventory, to shipping of hazardous chemicals were achieved, with a throughput of 300 pallets/hour and a daily outbound volume increased to 2,000 tons.

• Smart WMS Integration: A Warehouse Management System integrated with MES was deployed, enabling batch tracking, expiry alerts, dynamic inventory monitoring, and intelligent scheduling of hazardous chemicals. Real-time linkage with production and sales systems ensured efficient supply chain collaboration.

• High Explosion-Proof Safety Requirements: All warehousing equipment and systems needed to comply with explosion-proof standards, demanding strict requirements for equipment selection, system design, and construction installation.

• Hazardous Chemical Compatibility: Different hazardous chemicals required isolated storage, necessitating optimized warehouse layout and location allocation algorithms to ensure storage safety.

• Complex System Integration: Seamless  with the customer's existing MES, ERP, sales systems, and other systems was required to achieve real-time data synchronization and closed-loop business processes, presenting significant integration challenges.

• Safety Upgrade: Full automation of hazardous chemical storage was achieved, reducing manual intervention by 90% and lowering the safety accident rate to zero, ensuring production and personnel safety.

• Efficiency Improvement: Warehousing operation efficiency increased by 300%, inventory turnover days shortened to 15, strongly supporting production and sales demands.

• Cost Optimization: Labor costs were reduced by 80%, space utilization increased by 150%, resulting in annual warehousing cost savings exceeding 10 million yuan.