SMT Reel Warehouse in Thailand
Dedicated Categorized Storage Retrofit Project
Key Results
Core Pain Point Solved: Material Mismatch Losses Reduced by 95%
Outbound Efficiency Boost: Production Line Kitting Speed Up 45%
Time Cost Reduction: Inventory Stocktaking Labor Saved by 70%
Project Pain Points
The project warehouse covers an area of 2,200㎡ and is located in the Amata City Chonburi Industrial Estate. Managing over 1,800+ SKUs of rolled SMT components, the original setup relied on floor-level stacking. This caused different specifications of reels to become mixed up easily, resulting in severe component mismatches, physical tangling/damage, and high risks of electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage. Furthermore, manual stocktaking required item-by-item verification, making retrieval and dispatch highly time-consuming, which directly bottlenecked the changeover and production rhythm of the SMT lines.
Core Solutions
■Custom Specialized Slotting: Tailored a long-span tiered beam racking system integrated with dedicated reel slots, ensuring single-specification storage per fixed location.
■Scientific Zoning Layout: Classified and organized the warehouse zones strictly by part numbers (PN) and production batches to build a highly visible management workflow.
■Comprehensive Static Protection: Fully equipped the system with a complete set of anti-static accessories to eliminate ESD hazards from the source.
■Optimized Picking Paths: Dynamically aligned the storage setup with the high-frequency material requisition workflow of the SMT workshop to reduce physical handling distances.
Business Value Delivered
■Sharp Decline in Material Waste: Material losses caused by reel tangling, physical deformation, ESD damage, and sorting errors dropped sharply by 95%, effectively minimizing high material scrap rates and unexpected line downtime.
■All-Round Efficiency Boost: Precision slotting and storage management cut full-warehouse inventory labor by 70%, significantly shortening retrieval times and accelerating production line kitting/changeover speeds by 45%.
■Seamless Regulatory Compliance: The entire upgraded storage infrastructure completely satisfies Thailand's electronics manufacturing industry ESD standards, perfectly supporting the continuous fast-paced production requirements of the SMT lines.