Customer reference: Enercon GmbH Service – Out of the vehicle, into the station

Being a pioneer of wind energy technology and a committed supporter of energy transition, ENERCON specialises in production and servicing of onshore wind turbines that generate clean energy worldwide. The manufacturer has presence in more than 50 countries across 7 continents, with over 32,000 wind turbines installed. With around 5,000 service employees, ENERCON Service has been a reliable partner for maintenance, servicing, inspection, repairs and technical optimisation of the operation of wind turbines and wind parks, championing sustainable energy generation from onshore wind since 1984.

Over the years, more and more space is required in material storage. A large number of items, racks, cabinets and workshop wagons makes it difficult for the warehouse employees to keep track of everything. Moreover, material search, stocktaking and reordering of small parts take up a lot of time and incur immensely high costs. Because even though C-Parts represent a relatively small proportion of the purchase volume of a company, the procurement costs are high, which proves to be time-consuming, error-prone and inefficient. How can the process costs be reduced and productivity, quality and flexibility increased? This is where the intelligent storage and supply solutions of Würth Industrie Service come into picture for ENERCON Service.

Objective of the production supply

Optimization of the material warehouse
Cost reduction through process automation
Reduction in the time required for material procurement
Increased flexibility and productivity
Minimization of errors and inefficiencies in the storage process

The solution: ORSY^® – ORder with a SYstem

Thanks to the ORSY^® storage solutions, customers benefit from an innovative shelving system with modular design that ensures more order and clarity in the workshop, warehouse as well as on the go. By storing and making utility products and consumables available on demand, ORSY^® makes material procurement and storage so easy that nothing runs out anymore.

For around three years now, ENERCON Service has been trusting the system expertise of the C-Parts expert and relies on the variety offered by ORSY^® racks. And this all over Germany at more than 100 stations with 954 equipped ORSY^® towers. At the SEMO stations (Service and Mounting Stations), ENERCON Service employees will henceforth benefit from neat and organised storage of a variety of utility products and consumables used in maintenance. Be it in Braunschweig, Magdeburg or Rostock: At more than 100 stations, around 8,000 bins are equipped with more than 200 different Würth items that are used across the wind parks of the wind turbines specialist. The portfolio comprises a wide range of screws, nuts and rivets, as well as wire end ferrules, cable ties and spare parts for maintenance. A glimpse into the past shows many manual ordering processes that required not only time, but also money and valuable expertise. Besides, the parts were delivered to the respective stations via a central warehouse of ENERCON until now, where all the service vehicles were equipped with a variety of items as per the standards. This is definitely a thing of the past now, thanks to the ORSY^® storage management. In order to ensure that the SEMO stations are fully equipped with all the required items, the mobile service vehicles exclusively carry the items that are required in application, thus reducing the time needed to search in the vehicle to a minimum. But above all, the decentralised storage locations help in reducing a lot of weight during transport to the wind parks.

The result: Efficient material management through intelligent storage solutions and decentralized supply

„With the modular drawer solutions of the racks by Würth Industrie Service, we will henceforth save valuable space and also benefit from organised storage of our small parts as per requirement. Our inventories are managed in a lean manner and yet we always have sufficient stock available. And that too with increased productivity as well as added savings in terms of time and costs across all stations", said Björn Abromeit, Team Lead – Materials Management at ENERCON Service.