In 2013 Giben America's special projects division launched an ambitious project to design the first American-made storage and retrieval system. The result is G-Store, a brand new S&R that is fully
integrated with Giben equipment. Engineers at
Dakota Automation
designed and built the gantry system and defined the PLC interface.
Eurosoft developed an application that would track and maintain the real-world location of machines and materials that the G-Store system would interact with. Once jobs are submitted to the
application's database (or added manually through the user interface) they can be released for production. The application determines the locations of the machines and materials required to produce
the job, in what order, and communicates these to the gantry system, directing it where to go and what to expect when it gets there. Close cooperation between Giben America, Dakota Automation and
Eurosoft, Inc. was key to ensuring that all components of the system integrated seamlessly. The first G-Store system was proudly displayed at the IWF in 2014.