在不到10年的时间里，该公司从相对较低的自动化水平逐步发展到多种先进解决方案，一步一个脚印。

By Roberto Michel February 4, 2025

地点：德克萨斯州曼斯菲尔德
处理产品：有源和无源电子元件
SKU数量：来自1,200多个制造商品牌的超过120万个SKU
订单量：平均每天向全球客户发货25,000个订单
班次：每周6天，5个班次
员工数量：配送中心（DC）有1,500名员工

虽然一些新建项目从一开始就采用高水平的自动化，但对于Mouser Electronics来说，自动化之旅是逐步推进的，专注于帮助员工更高效、更准确地满足复杂订单需求并达到服务水平目标的项目。

在2016年之前，Mouser的DC并不陌生于自动化，使用了自动化旋转货架、传送带和分拣系统、螺旋传送带以及用于整合的夹层区域，同时还配备了仓库管理软件。

在过去八年中，Mouser部署了多种先进的自动化存储和检索系统（AS/RS），并新增了一个相连的DC和额外的基础设施。

关键亮点包括：

• 2015/2016年：DC开始增加一些自动化包装线，采用Sealed Air的系统。

• 2016年：为加快出库运输，安装了来自TGW（现为FORTNA的一部分）的窄带波状分拣机，将货物分拣到出库码头。

• 2016年：DC首次部署了来自Kardex的垂直升降模块（VLM），最初安装了44台VLM，随后逐步增加，目前1号大楼中有187台VLM。更多VLM将用于园区的2号大楼项目。

• 2021年：安装了来自OPEX的Perfect Pick AS/RS，以加快订单整合。

• 2021年底：部署了由Swisslog集成的AutoStore系统，拥有76,000个箱子、120个机器人、40个拣选端口和9个补货端口。计划在2号大楼中安装另一个更大的AutoStore系统。

• 2022年：Mouser启动了2号大楼项目，这是一个41.6万平方英尺的DC，通过带传送带的空中走廊与1号大楼相连。

• 2024年：在1号大楼中增加了一个分拣环，以更高效地将物品导入Perfect Pick。

• 2024年：2号大楼建设完成，新大楼中正在安装新的自动化系统，包括来自Kardex的75台VLM，并计划长期增加225台。新站点配备了两台收货分拣机和一台用于订单整合的大型分拣环，均来自Eurosort。新大楼还将包括一台托盘AS/RS。

• 2024年：2号大楼的大型夹层结构安装完成。来自Steel King的夹层平台结合了单层和双层平台，形成了一个三层夹层结构，为2号大楼提供了超过23万平方英尺的工作空间，支持运营、传送带和VLM拣选站以及其他自动化设备。

系统供应商：

• 垂直升降模块（VLM）：Kardex

• 系统集成与控制：Precision Warehouse Design (PWD)

• AutoStore：Swisslog

• AS/RS（用于整合）：OPEX

• 自动化包装：Sealed Air

• 分拣（多种系统）：EuroSort

• 传送带：Hytrol；TGW（现为MHS/FORTNA的一部分）

• 2号大楼夹层平台：Steel King

• 2号大楼托盘AS/RS：AI Storage Solutions

• 1号大楼夹层：Cogan

• 1号大楼垂直往复式传送带：Qimarox

• 螺旋传送带：Ambaflex

• 自动化纸箱成型机：Wexxar Bel（Promach品牌）

• 大件物品自动化包装：PSI Engineering

• 自动纸箱封口机：3M

• 纸箱分拣：Modsort（现为Regal Rexnord的一部分）

• 其他分拣：Intralox

Mouser Electronics

• Location: Mansfield, Texas
• Products handled: Electronics components, both active and passive
• Number of SKUs: More than 1.2 million SKUs from over 1,200 manufacturer brands
• Order volume: On average, 25,000 orders ship each day to customers across the country and globally 
• Number of shifts: 5 shifts, 6 days per week
• Number of employees: 1,500 associates in the DC

While some greenfield sites go with a high-level of automation from the start, for Mouser Electronics, the automation journey has been incremental, focusing on projects that help its workforce be more productive and accurate in meeting complex order requirements and hitting service-level targets.

While prior to 2016 Mouser’s DC was no stranger to automation, making use of automated carousels, conveyor and sortation, spiral conveyors and a mezzanine area for consolidation, as well as warehouse management software.

Over the last eight years, multiple advanced automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) have been deployed, and a new, connected DC and additional infrastructure have been added.

The key highlights include:

• 2015/2016: The DC begins adding some automated packaging lines to its DC, leveraging systems from Sealed Air.
• 2016: To speed up outbound shipping, a narrow-belt wave sorter from then TGW (now part of FORTNA) is installed to sort shipments to outbound docks.
• 2016: The DC deploys its first vertical lift modules (VLMs) from Kardex, starting with 44 VLMs, but added to a few years ago to now number 187 VLMs in Building 1. More VLMs are going into the campus’s Building 2 project.
• 2021: A Perfect Pick AS/RS from OPEX is installed to speed up order consolidation.
• Late 2021: An AutoStore system, integrated by Swisslog, is deployed, with 76,000 bins, 120 robots, 40 pick ports and 9 replenishment ports. Another, larger AutoStore system is planned for Building 2.
• 2022: Mouser breaks ground on its Building 2 project, a 416,000-square-foot DC that is connected to Building 1 by a sky-bridge with conveyor lines.
• 2024: A sortation loop is added to Building 1 to more efficiently feed items for induction into the Perfect Pick.
• 2024: Construction completed on Building 2, with installation of new automated systems in the new building underway, including 75 VLMs from Kardex, with long-term plans to add 225 more units. The new site features two receiving sorters and a large sortation loop to handle order consolidation, both from Eurosort. A pallet AS/RS will be part of the new building.
• 2024: Installation is completed for a large mezzanine structure for Building 2. The mezzanine platform from Steel King, a combination of single and two-level platforms that creates a triple-mezzanine structure, provides more than 230,000 square feet of working space to Building 2 to support operations, conveyor and VLM picking stations along with other means of automation.

System suppliers:

• Vertical lift modules: Kardex
• Systems integration and controls: Precision Warehouse Design (PWD)
• AutoStore: Swisslog
• AS/RS (used for consolidation): OPEX
• Automated packaging: Sealed Air
• Sortation (multiple systems): EuroSort
• Conveyor: Hytrol; TGW (now part of MHS/FORTNA)
• Mezzanine platform for Building 2: Steel King
• Pallet AS/RS, Building 2: AI Storage Solutions
• Mezzanine, Building 1: Cogan
• Vertical reciprocating conveyor, Building 1: Qimarox
• Spiral conveyors: Ambaflex
• Automated case formers: Wexxar Bel, a Promach brand
• Automated packaging, larger items: PSI Engineering
• Automatic case sealers: 3M
• Box sortation: Modsort (now part of Regal Rexnord)
• Other sortation: Intralox