Case Study: Hospira achieves FDA-compliant, high-efficiency inventory automation with Dematic ASRS, AGVs and EMS

Hospira - Customer Case Study

Hospira, a specialty pharmaceutical company, faced significant challenges in handling its high volume of heavy, time-sensitive intravenous solution bags. They required absolute inventory accuracy and traceability to meet FDA mandates, an operation that would have been costly and prone to error with a conventional manual warehouse. To solve this, Hospira partnered with vendor Dematic to implement an automated solution involving an Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs).

Dematic implemented a comprehensive system featuring a large ASRS for over 41,000 pallets, 28 Eagle AGVs for transport, and a central Equipment Management System (EMS) for control and traceability. This automation provided Hospira with a high-efficiency, FDA-approved operation that ensured absolute inventory integrity, eliminated the need for a large conventional warehouse, and justified itself through lower long-term operational costs. Dematic's solution delivered a flexible, low-cost system that adapted to the dynamic pharmaceutical market.

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