May 2025 – Duluth, Georgia, U.S. – WEG, a global leader in industrial electrical solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Kardex, a premier provider of AutoStoreTM solutions, to transform its storage and order fulfillment processes. By integrating AutoStore’s high-density automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), WEG aims to enhance operational efficiency, improve inventory accuracy, and optimize space utilization.
WEG is committed to operational excellence, sustainability, and continuous innovation. The company sought an advanced automation solution to optimize product handling, storage efficiency, and picking accuracy while ensuring faster and more reliable service for its customers.
With a diverse product portfolio including drives, controls, automation components, motors, and parts, WEG needed a solution that could efficiently store and manage a vast range of inventory. AutoStore’s fully automated modular and flexible design makes it an ideal fit, offering space-saving, scalable, and high-speed order fulfillment capabilities while ensuring seamless inventory tracking and reduced operational bottlenecks. The system’s high-density, cube-based scalable design will significantly increase warehouse efficiency, allowing WEG to store up to four times more inventory within the same footprint while ensuring faster and more precise order fulfillment.
Antonio Fernando Rodrigues, Vice President of Operations at WEG, emphasized the importance of this investment: "WEG is dedicated to providing exceptional service to our customers. We actively seek customer feedback and implement solutions to enhance their experience. Our goal is to invest in the latest technology for automated inventory management, which will improve operational performance and inventory accuracy. This investment also empowers our employees to deliver their best work every day and contributes to our sustainability goals."
Kardex is a leading global partner for intralogistics solutions in an attractive and growing market. The Group offers premium automated products, standardized systems, and lifecycle services that guarantee high availability and low total cost of ownership. Kardex provides an intelligent entry into automation with its dynamic storage and retrieval systems, offers integrated material handling systems, small parts storage systems, and automated high-bay warehouses, and acts as a global AutoStore partner, offering flexible and modular storage and order fulfillment solutions. The Group employs around 2,500 people in over 30 countries. Kardex Holding AG has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 1989.
WEG is a global leader in industrial electrical technologies, providing energy-efficient automation solutions, drives, and motors. With 40,000+ employees, operations across all continents, and a presence in 135+ countries, WEG continues to invest in cutting-edge manufacturing and sustainable solutions that drive progress in industrial automation.
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