Under a large-scale project on modernization of warehouses launched as far back as 2015, the automobile plant of KAMAZ started testing a new train.
A new train is undergoing tests in the department of operational logistics. It uses roll-in carts instead of hook-on ones. The new train requires much less space for a sharp turn. In order to load and unload components from a special support, one should only press the lever.
The first results of testing are promising. Whereas a usual tractor with towed carts makes a circle from the warehouse to the conveyor of the automobile plant and back for 100 minutes, the new train does it only for 47 minutes. If such a train is used, progressmen are no longer needed, and their functions will be performed by a train driver. He should complete documents at each stop as quickly as possible. The top managers suggest solving this problem with the help of internal electronic document management. And the most difficult thing is to transform the environment which is inevitably changed by new technologies. At first, it is necessary to put everything in order at shops and on racks, then on roads on which the train runs to its customers, and then apply this experience on the territory of the whole automobile plant.