The challenge
The retailer was investing in its first fully automated site and needed independent expertise to define requirements, evaluate competing vendor concepts, and ensure the delivered system met throughput commitments.
Our approach
We developed the throughput model and functional specification, ran a competitive tender, evaluated vendor proposals with discrete-event simulation, reviewed detailed designs and safety concepts, witnessed FAT and SAT, and managed the ramp-up performance tests.
The outcome
The site went live on schedule and achieved the contracted peak throughput in acceptance testing. The specification and test framework is now the retailer's standard for further sites.
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