Logistics planner in the N.I.C.O. project (B. Braun Medical AG, Sempach)

High-bay warehouse with narrow-aisle forklift Project N.I.C.O. of B. Braun Medical AG, Sempach

In spring 2024, B. Braun Med­ical AG inau­gu­rat­ed its new 9,000 m² sus­tain­able pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty for dis­in­fec­tion and hygiene prod­ucts. The plant is called “N.I.C.O.”, which stands for New Infec­tion Con­trol Oper­a­tions, and is locat­ed in Sem­pach, Switzerland.With this plant, B. Braun Med­ical is send­ing a clear sig­nal in favour of Switzer­land as a pro­duc­tion loca­tion and assum­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty for soci­ety in many respects. 

In this project, SOLTIC was com­mis­sioned by a gen­er­al plan­ner to under­take the logis­tics plan­ning across all phas­es (SIA 31–53) for the fol­low­ing trades: 

High-bay warehouse with narrow-aisle forklift, N.I.C.O. project at B. Braun Medical AG in Sempach

High-bay warehouse with narrow-aisle forklift for packaging materials, insert components and hazardous substances

The use of nar­row-aisle fork­lift trucks can sig­nif­i­cant­ly increase stor­age capac­i­ty and ware­house util­i­sa­tion com­pared to con­ven­tion­al wide-aisle ware­hous­es.  

The space sav­ing results from the nar­row aisle width, but also from the opti­mal util­i­sa­tion of the room height. The par­tial­ly or ful­ly auto­mat­ed stack­ers increase effi­cien­cy through fast and pre­cise stor­age and retrieval. 

Ergonomic repacking stations for packaging materials

Ergonom­ics at the work­place is a deci­sive fac­tor for the health and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of employ­ees. Repack­ing sta­tions should there­fore be par­tic­u­lar­ly ergonom­i­cal­ly designed, for exam­ple with height-adjustable work sur­faces, ergonom­ic floor mats, intu­itive arrange­ment of work equip­ment and auto­mat­ed sup­port such as con­vey­or tech­nol­o­gy. 

Ergonomic repackaging stations for packaging materials, N.I.C.O. project at B. Braun Medical AG in Sempach
Conveyor technology connection (roller container) to clean room production, N.I.C.O. project at B. Braun Medical AG in Sempach

Conveyor technology connection (roller container) to clean room production

The con­nec­tion of con­vey­or tech­nol­o­gy to clean­room pro­duc­tion areas places high demands on clean­li­ness and effi­cien­cy. Roller con­tain­ers are a flex­i­ble solu­tion for trans­port­ing mate­ri­als in and out of the clean­room. The aspects of con­t­a­m­i­na­tion avoid­ance through air­lock sys­tems and clean­room-com­pat­i­ble mate­ri­als and effi­cient phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal logis­tics process­es are impor­tant here, for exam­ple.  

Transfer of hazardous substances to the 2nd floor

The safe trans­port of haz­ardous sub­stances with­in a build­ing, espe­cial­ly ver­ti­cal trans­port between floors, requires spe­cial solu­tions. Haz­ardous mate­ri­als can be trans­ferred direct­ly using the nar­row-aisle fork­lift truck, for exam­ple, which is also used for goods move­ments in the ware­house. An intel­li­gent fork­lift guid­ance sys­tem enables path-time-opti­mised, pre­cise trans­ports and trans­fers to the cor­re­spond­ing buffer sec­tion or sim­i­lar. The automa­tion options and sen­sor tech­nol­o­gy of the fork­lift trucks sim­pli­fy the work and help to pre­vent acci­dents and leaks.

Transfer of hazardous materials to the 2nd floor, N.I.C.O. project of B. Braun Medical AG in Sempach

Pharmaceutical logistics: efficient and safe storage and handling systems 

The demands placed on mod­ern stor­age and pro­duc­tion process­es are con­stant­ly increas­ing. This also applies to the life sci­ence indus­try, espe­cial­ly when han­dling sen­si­tive mate­ri­als such as haz­ardous sub­stances or in clean­room pro­duc­tion. Through the tar­get­ed use of tech­nol­o­gy and the obser­vance of ergonom­ic prin­ci­ples, com­pa­nies not only increase their pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, but also improve the health and sat­is­fac­tion of their employ­ees.

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Michael Klaus
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