News Release from: Fairchild Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 March 2002
Fairchild opens first fully automated warehouse
Fairchild Semiconductor has opened a new 16,400m2 warehouse facility in Hwaseong City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
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Fairchild Semiconductor has opened a new 16,400m2 warehouse facility in Hwaseong City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. This new facility is the first fully automated warehouse built by Fairchild Semiconductor and will serve as the hub of the company's product distribution service to customers in NE Asia. The new Fairchild Semiconductor logistics warehouse is important to the company's plans in Asia, where many of Fairchild's key customers are located.
Having a distribution warehouse in close proximity to the customer's facilities reinforces the company's commitment to provide superior customer service.
The warehouse distributes products manufactured at the Bucheon, South Korea facility to customers worldwide.
It is also a central shipping hub to distribute products from Fairchild's other manufacturing locations to customers in South Korea and the rest of Northeast Asia.
Total investment for the facility was US $13 million, which included land, building and equipment.
The warehouse was completed in record time, with ground breaking less than a year ago.
"This fully automated warehouse is important to Korea and Fairchild Semiconductor as we continue to enhance our customer service and support", said DJ Kim, president of Fairchild Korea.
"We're very pleased to have the first fully-automated warehouse built by Fairchild.
This facility demonstrates Fairchild's strength in collaboration across the company to deliver cost-effective manufacturing to our 50,000 customers worldwide".
The logistics warehouse is equipped with an auto storage retrieval system.
At full production the facility is capable of handling 150,000 shipments each quarter.
Products arriving at the warehouse are manually unloaded from trucks onto a conveyor belt, which moves them inside to be weighed and stored.
Once products are in the warehouse, robots take over almost exclusively.
The robots, directed by a warehouse management system, store, track and retrieve inventory when customer orders are received.
The sophisticated equipment even has the ability to tape and label boxes in preparation for shipping.
The new facility has replaced a third-party product distribution centre previously used in South Korea.
Fairchild's power discrete products are manufactured at the Bucheon, South Korea plant.
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