【This Week's Topic】
Under the impetus of AI computing power, how can the copper clad laminate storage industry break through?
An Interpretation of Shunli Intelligent Full-Process Intelligent Warehouse Solution
This issue's technical director: Huang Dong
With the explosive growth in global demand for AI servers and high-frequency, high-speed communication, the copper-clad laminate (CCL) industry, which is the core substrate of PCBs (printed circuit boards), has undergone a structural supply-demand adjustment. The mass production of high multi-layer boards and special electronic materials has imposed nearly demanding requirements on upstream manufacturing enterprises for lean production, high-density energy storage, and full-chain traceability. As a "full-stack solution service provider & core equipment manufacturer" deeply engaged in intelligent logistics, Shunli Intelligent in Guangdong focuses on the specific pain points of the copper-clad laminate industry. By relying on its independently developed "5+N" software and hardware product system, it has tailored an integrated process-level design solution of "heavy-duty stacker-pallet warehouse + 3D digital twin brain", enabling industry customers to achieve ultra-flexible and highly reliable intelligent upgrades from raw materials, semi-cured sheets (PP) to copper-clad laminate products.
Core Issues Revealed
Four Major Challenges Faced by Copper Clad Board Storage
Although copper clad boards belong to electronic base materials, their storage and logistics have typical characteristics of "extremely heavy load, special environment, and high surface protection requirements":
Heavy and fragile: Finished copper clad boards and large rolls of copper foil and glass fiber cloth are heavy-load materials. Traditional manual handling not only has low efficiency but also causes edges of the boards to be scratched and abraded.
Sensitive to temperature and humidity: The core intermediate material PP (pre-cured sheet) needs to be stored in a specific low-temperature or constant temperature and humidity environment. Frequent human entry and exit can easily lead to environmental instability and material waste.
High dust-free environment requirements: The storage and production environment of raw materials such as glass fiber cloth, copper foil, and PP, as well as semi-finished products, strictly require a dust-free grade. This places higher demands on equipment.
Difficult information tracking: The AI computing base material requires the traceability of parameters such as formula, batch, and adhesive content to reach "microsecond level/single sheet level". The loose management of traditional warehousing can easily lead to mixed materials.
Highlights of Shunli Intelligent Solution
Heavy-duty stacker crane is deeply integrated with hardware and software in a unified manner
Shunli Intelligent, based on its independently developed software and hardware ecosystem, has decomposed the copper plate storage scenario into three core technology clusters. Through integrated design, it has broken down departmental barriers and isolated equipment:
Hardware strength: Heavy-duty AS/RS vertical warehouse, achieving breakthroughs in both space and efficiency
Shunli Intelligent adopts customized heavy-load automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) and high-precision stacker crane systems.
High space utilization: For the inventory demands of copper plate enterprises that often reach tens of thousands of tons, the solution compresses the vertical space, coordinating the architectural and storage planning, and the vertical space utilization rate is increased to over 95%.
Heavy-load stable operation: Shunli Intelligent's heavy-load stacker crane has structurally reinforced and kinetically optimized for the heavy-load of 1500kg in the copper plate industry and the roll-shaped goods form. Even under full load, it can still maintain high rigidity and stable operation, reducing operational risks.
Specialized pallet protection: Design a dedicated dust-free anti-scuffing transfer equipment to ensure that copper foil rolls, glass fiber cloth, and finished boards can be during the high-speed start-stop transportation by the stacker crane， conveyor belt transportation， and AMR transportation.
Environmental Adaptation: Customized Upgrades for Special Conditions and Green Low-Carbon Practices
In response to the strict environmental requirements for fiberglass, PP (semi-cured sheet), copper foil, etc., Shunli Intelligent has carried out comprehensive customization and upgrading of the equipment.
Customized design: The stacking machines and core electronic components, sensors of Shunli Intelligent have undergone special processing for low-temperature resistance and anti-condensation. The mechanical parts are customized with dust protection, enabling stable operation and operation in special environments.
Green and low-carbon: The system deeply integrates energy recovery technology. The stacking machine can convert kinetic energy into recovery when descending or decelerating. Combined with "black light operation", it significantly reduces the overall energy consumption of the warehouse, helping enterprises achieve green and low-carbon transformation.
Software Engine: WMS/WCS Intelligent Management and 3D Digital Twin
Shunli Intelligent has independently built a WMS (Warehouse Management System) and a WCS (Warehouse Control System), which work in conjunction with the upper-level system to form the "digital command center" of the factory.
Full-process tracking: From the warehousing of raw materials such as glass fiber cloth and copper foil, to the storage of PP ingredients and the inbound and outbound of finished copper-clad boards, the system realizes the collection and control of all material information throughout the process, providing better services for the traceability of upstream and downstream information.
Digital twin: By introducing a 3D digital twin platform, managers can view the real-time operating status of each piece of equipment and warehouse management data in real time. Before the system is launched, simulation can be used to conduct algorithm verification in advance and predict system bottlenecks.
Shunli Intelligent - Digital Twin Platform
Shunli Intelligent has accumulated rich project experience in the warehousing and logistics of the copper clad board industry. In the typical copper clad board benchmark projects planned in the past, Shunli Intelligent cooperated with the client to meet their customized requirements and carried out comprehensive intelligent upgrades for the four core storage areas of raw materials, semi-finished products and finished products, which were highly recognized by the customers:
Glass Box Storage: Planned to have ≥2300 storage positions, with a single pallet load capacity of 1500kg.
Copper Foil/BS Storage: Planned to have ≥2200 storage positions, with a single pallet load capacity of 1500kg.
PP Storage: Planned to have ≥2400 storage positions, with a single pallet load capacity of 1500kg.
Finished Product Storage: Planned to have ≥3100 storage positions, with a single pallet load capacity of 1500kg.
The total planned storage positions of this project exceeded the ten-thousand-level mark. The comprehensive inbound and outbound efficiency of a single storage area was ≥40 pallets per hour. Even in the special scenarios of high concurrent inbound and outbound, it was still able to ensure the effective operation of the entire factory supply chain.
In the copper foil board industry, Shunli Intelligent not only addresses the "storage" issue, but also customizes handling equipment and automation equipment for each process' specific procedures and process requirements, achieving the implementation of intelligent manufacturing upgrades.
Raw material end: Large rolls of copper foil, fiberglass cloth, etc. are automatically transported to the production line by unmanned forklifts/AGVs. At the same time, through a heavy-load stacker crane vertical warehouse for precise storage and retrieval, they automatically enter and exit the warehouse according to the production plan.
Intermediate product end: After loading, sliced and formed PP/BS rolls, etc. on the production line, the automatic handling of the line connection for discharging, automatic plate change, and distribution and handling by unmanned forklifts/AGVs, as well as the precise storage and retrieval through a heavy-load effective stacker crane vertical warehouse, are carried out automatically according to the production plan.
Finished product sorting and out-of-warehouse: At the out-of-warehouse end, 3D vision mechanical arms and gantry mechanical hands face different specifications and sizes of PP/BS, copper foil, finished substrates, etc. The system can achieve high-precision automatic unpacking and stacking and disordered single-item sorting, and through AGV transportation to connect the production line and platform, complete the upgrade from traditional manual operations to automated operations.
Looking forward to the future
Build an intelligent logistics hub and empower the copper clad laminate industry to upgrade
In the new era of AI computing power and the reconfiguration of electronic materials, copper clad laminate enterprises are not only competing in formula and process, but also in the delivery efficiency and lean management of the supply chain. Shunli Intelligent has always adhered to the planning concept of integrating hardware and software and achieving deep integration throughout the process. We are not merely building a three-dimensional warehouse, but are creating an intelligent logistics hub for copper clad laminate enterprises that is highly concurrent, highly efficient, heavy-load-bearing, and fully green, to help enterprises effectively break through the bottleneck.
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