OPAL
Management and Control
Operating Platform of ALstef Group
OPAL supports you in the operation of your site by managing all logistics flows and your order preparations.
Reception and storage
Line-side supply
end of line evacuation
Storage
order preparations
expeditions
OPAL, a modular approach around a main WCS
OPAL a real conductor for optimizing storage, AGV fleet, transit and order preparation management.
Analytics includes management dashboards and analytical functions with KPI’s and operational reports
Notifications allows you to be alerted in real-time, of functional and technical incidents and risks in your installation
IT monitoring, available to your IT or monitoring department, detects IT problems on servers, networks, databases
Overview allows a global visualization of your flows to follow in real-time or in replay
SPEED AND PRECISION
Service quality
- Elimination of preparation errors
- Traceability of end-to-end products and flows
lead times reduction
- Short deadlines targets
- Flow Synchronization and lean-tasks scheduling
EFFICIENCY AND AGILITY
Economic performance
- Real-time optimized scheduling and management
- Control of the stock level for each type of product
Services customization
Consideration of distribution channels specificities: lead time, picking method, value-added services, etc.
INTEGRATION AND SECURITY
Connectivity and visibility
Connection with other information systems to participate in global-vision intralogistics and beyond
Cybersecurity
- Certification ISO 9001
- ANSSI recommendations
- Redundant architecture
OPAL optimizes all the movements of handling equipment, taking into account your business rules and constraints.
Stock management
OPAL offers many useful features for managing automated storage:
- Weight and dimensions control
- Locations and rotation classes management
- Product characteristics management
- Reorganization
- Management of stacker cranes and Autostore
- Product management by batches
- Use-by dates management (best-before dates…)
- Full traceability of loads
- Real-time mapping of storage
- Consignations management
- Batch locking / unlocking for quality control and quarantine
- History of movements
Order preparation management
OPAL an optimize the performance of your order preparation whether manual or robotized:
- Preparation of orders by robot on the pallet, by homogeneous layer, or by package
- Preparation of pallet orders in Goods-to-Person
- By SKUs or bins – AutoStore®
- products addition or picking on the load at the operator station
- Pick-to-Pallet, Pick-to-Belt functions
Our algorithms allow optimized preparation adapted to your rules and your products, particularly:
- Management of quantities , quarantines and inventories
- Packages sequencing on the pallet
- Management of dates per customer
- Management of contracts on date and non-returns date
- Respect for the rules of non-mix of products on the pallet
- Pallets sequencing management
- Product management by batches
- Management of use-by dates (Best before date…)
- Sampling for quality control
- The weight control ensuring process reliability
- Management of VAS (Value Added Services) at the station
AGV fleet management
Our AGV fleet management module optimizes AGV movements according to all the events of your installation:
- Management of flows and crossings between AGVs, maximizing movements combinations
- Assignment of missions to AGVs according to their status and location on the installation but also according to the required reactivity criteria
- Remote control of AGVs, visualization of their status
- Guidance of AGVs on their layout
- Consideration of environmental constraints (height limit, slow down, etc.)
- Optimized management of recharging or changing batteries
- Real-time connection with the intelligences of your site (ERP, WMS, MES, PLCs, etc.) for better synchronization of movements
- Synoptic: real-time visualization of the complete AGV fleet but also of the physical interfaces
- Replay function to analyze a period of your activity
Transitic management
- Management of transitics (conveyors, shuttles, robots, etc.), routing
- Scheduling, balancing and optimization of flows
- Management of anomalies and rejections
- Control by external software (WMS, ERP, MES) or manual
- Traceability
Operating assistance modules
Around the main WCS, four modules complete the solution offering a functional coverage rich in execution and management
OPAL NOTIFY
Real-time notifications on functional and technical events
- Viewing alerts by category
- Acknowledgment, filtering
- Management of configurable priorities
- Push email or mobile mode
- Viewing details of a history alert
OPAL ANALYTICS
Real-time dashboard, KPI and reporting
- Multigraphy dashboards, configurable by the user
- Production indicators display in real time
- Data historicization for trend analysis
- Standard indicator pack
- Additional specific indicators
- Open Data: access to source data according to your existing tool
OPAL IT MONITORING
Incident follow-up and IT resolution
- Monitoring of IT resources necessary for the proper functioning of the system
- Alerts
- Detection of problems on servers, networks and databases
- Open and easily integrated
OPAL OVERVIEW
Synoptic visualization of installations and movement
- Management of stock, transitics and AGVs in a single application
- Synoptic of the installation allowing to locate the loads, to follow the movements and to act directly on the installation
- Replay: visualization of recorded movements and status