LogistikPlan industry sector: Chemicals
Densify production and intralogistics
The innovation and quality expertise of the German chemical industry is recognized worldwide, and its success inspires confidence. However, in global competition additional strengths are required – ranging from strategic adaptability to logistical speed.
LogistikPlan has built up many years of consulting and planning expertise – for both batch and continuous chemical production processes in the segments of …
- Color chemistry
- Specialty chemicals
- Polymer chemistry
- Consumer chemicals and
- Pharmaceuticals (within the LogistikPlan competence field Health Care).
Using specialized LogistikPlan planning tools, production and logistics volumes can be calculated proactively at plant and corporate level, and appropriate factory concepts can be derived.
► Our core service areas
- Capacity planning for the medium- and long-term expansion of production facilities, material flows, warehouse and transport volumes
- Production and material flow analyses including space and material flow balances
- Modular layout planning for the logistics-friendly positioning of machines, systems, and workstations
- Implementation of intralogistics systems, e.g. conveying systems, tow train systems, or automated guided vehicles (AGVs), including for hazardous-area (Ex) conditions
- Planning of production and dispatch warehouses (hazardous goods warehouses, water hazard class warehouses, packaging warehouses, spare parts warehouses)
- Support of specialist planners for building permit applications and supplementary approvals (Federal Immission Control Act, fire protection, occupational health and safety)
A common approach to cost optimization in chemical plants is to make more effective and sustainable use of the often expensive site infrastructure.
► Typical for the chemical industry: high structural density
Chemical plants are usually integrated within larger production sites. Typical characteristics include
- shared material networks
- closely interlinked building structures
- densely utilized construction areas
- ground-level, above-ground, and underground infrastructure
Here, as factory planners, we must take into account the complex spatial conditions within existing production buildings as well as the interests of neighboring operations at the respective chemical site.
► Growth within limited space
- Since spatial expansion is often only possible to a limited extent at many chemical plants, the focus is on optimizing production layouts within typically multi-story buildings.
- High spatial density has a significant impact on transport movements and requires additional resources (elevators, vertical lifts, paternosters, pipelines).
- As logistics planners, we apply demanding design criteria:
- In addition to reducing transport movements,
- minimizing hazard and intersection points, as well as
- material-flow-oriented arrangement of functional and process areas are required.
- If production facilities and logistics areas are to be expanded further, LogistikPlan pursues customized approaches to space optimization, for example
- relocating internal warehouse areas to central plant logistics
- outsourcing selected logistics assortments (e.g. packaging materials) to external logistics service providers
- consolidating logistics processes with neighboring operational units on the shared plant si
