Big Daishowa Completes Logistics and Distribution Center in Japan
The large, automation-driven plant is designed not only to improve global logistics of its tooling products, but also to impress business partners with its sophisticated equipment.
Big Kaiser’s parent company, Big Daishowa Seiki Co. Ltd., has announced the completion of a new logistics and distribution center in Japan. Joining five existing factories on the island of Awaji, the 130,000-square-foot building is said to meet the need for logistics improvements given the company’s global product reach.
The building is said to function as much as a showpiece for business partners as it does a factory, housing some 1.5 million products and featuring sophisticated equipment. The plant has a large, open concept and modern lobby, from which visitors can tour the offices and warehouse and participate in capabilities presentations in a large classroom-style chamber overlooking the distribution center featuring automatic material handling systems run by unattended forklifts, inspection systems, robotic stacking of tooling on pallets for shipment and more.
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