Fairchild Semiconductor Dedicates New Fully-Automated Warehouse in Korea
HWASEONG CITY, South Korea--March 13, 2002--- Represents the Hub of Fairchild's Delivery Service to Customers
in Northeast Asia
- 164,000 Square Foot Facility is Equipped with an Advanced
Automation Logistics System
Fairchild Semiconductor International , the leading global supplier of high performance products for multiple end markets, today announced the grand opening of a new 164,000 square foot warehouse facility in Hwaseong City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. This new facility marks the first fully-automated warehouse built by Fairchild Semiconductor and will serve as the hub of the company's product distribution service to customers in Northeast Asia.
The new Fairchild Semiconductor Logistics Warehouse is important to the company's plans in Asia, where many of Fairchild's key customers are located. Having a distribution warehouse in close proximity to the customer's facilities reinforces the company's commitment to provide superior customer service.
The warehouse distributes products manufactured at the Bucheon, South Korea facility to customers worldwide. It's also a central shipping hub to distribute products from Fairchild's other manufacturing locations to customers in South Korea and the rest of Northeast Asia. Total investment for the facility was USD $13 million, which included land, building and equipment. The warehouse was completed in record time, with ground breaking less than a year ago.
"This fully-automated warehouse is important to Korea and Fairchild Semiconductor as we continue to enhance our customer service and support," said D. J. Kim, president of Fairchild Korea. "We're very pleased to have the first fully-automated warehouse built by Fairchild. This facility demonstrates Fairchild's strength in collaboration across the company to deliver cost-effective manufacturing to our 50,000 customers worldwide."
The Logistics Warehouse is equipped with an Auto Storage Retrieval System. At full production the facility is capable of handling 150,000 shipments each quarter. Products arriving at the warehouse are manually unloaded from trucks onto a conveyor belt, which moves them inside to be weighed and stored. Once products are in the warehouse, robots take over almost exclusively. The robots, directed by a warehouse management system, store, track and retrieve inventory when customer orders are received. The sophisticated equipment even has the ability to tape and label boxes in preparation for shipping.
The new facility has replaced a third-party product distribution center previously used in South Korea. Fairchild's power discrete products are manufactured at the Bucheon, South Korea plant.
About Fairchild Semiconductor International:
Fairchild Semiconductor International is a leading global supplier of high performance products for multiple end markets. With a focus on developing leading edge power and interface solutions to enable the electronics of today and tomorrow, Fairchild's components are used in computing, communications, consumer, industrial, automotive and aerospace applications. Fairchild's 10,000 employees design, manufacture and market power, analog & mixed signal, interface, logic, and optoelectronics products from its headquarters in South Portland, Maine, USA and numerous locations around the world. Please contact us on the web at www.fairchildsemi.com.