Warehouse layout software
Warehouse layouts in 3D, with picking, packing and the trucks’ wait.
Laydyne lets you compare picking, packing, robots and truck handling in warehouse models. Inspect the building and camera coverage alongside proposals for changing the logistics layout.
Start with a free account. Simulations are estimates and require Pro.
- 72 × 48 mModel floor dimensions
- 571Parts in the model
- 16Articles with worked results
What you can do for this space
Warehouses & logistics · Warehouse operations
Try the dispatch cutoff against the work arriving.
Set orders, station times and transport resources for an approximate warehouse shift. Vary packing arrangements, staff or robot availability and compare completed work and truck waits.
- Compare picking and packing assignments
- Test robot and forklift availability
- Inspect cutoff completion and truck waits
Results from worked examples
- Moving the packing benches nearer the pick zones cut the mean wait for a robot at stand A from 10.8 minutes with 4 robots in the original layout to 2.3 minutes with 3.
- With today’s 4 pickers and 2 pack stations, 25.2 orders miss the cut-off at 15:45, and with 6 pickers and 3 pack stations only 1.1 of the 91.5 orders do.
- Beyond 24 robots the time per line does not change: 24 robots are 0.7 s slower than 32 (95% interval −0.1 to 1.4 s), so no difference is shown.
Warehouses & logistics · Warehouse fire checks
Review the building around the storage plan.
Specify warehouse use and the building conditions required by the checks. Inspect selected hydrant, extinguisher, alarm and exit-sign criteria with the assumptions and omissions shown.
- Set warehouse building conditions
- Review hydrant and extinguisher criteria
- Inspect alarm and exit-sign criteria
Results from worked examples
- The 1,484.04 m² warehouse needs indoor fire hydrants, and four hydrants reach every part of the floor within 19.46 m, inside the 25 m limit.
- For the 1,484.04 m² warehouse, five extinguishers of three units each (15 units) cover the 14.84 units needed, and the fire alarm needs 20 smoke detectors.
Warehouses & logistics · Warehouse cameras
Inspect the view between the racks.
Place cameras in the warehouse model and inspect coverage around racks and entrances. Try another mounting position to see which floor areas remain outside the specified views.
- Try warehouse camera positions
- Inspect rack-aisle blind spots
- Compare entrance coverage
Results from worked examples
- Your AI counts on the plan how many security cameras a warehouse needs: ten cameras see 83% of the docks, work areas and aisles, sixteen 94%.
- In ten facilities counted on the plan, six cameras see 91.9% of a convenience store; in a warehouse, ten see 83.0% and sixteen see 94.3%.
Warehouses & logistics · Logistics proposal
Show the arrangement behind a logistics proposal.
Inspect rack, packing and dispatch positions in the model. Export the layout and drawn equipment quantities to discuss the proposal with warehouse and automation teams.
- View the warehouse in 3D
- Export the logistics layout as PDF
- Add equipment quantity sheets to the PDF
Start with your space
Open a model for free
Open a warehouse model or logistics example and adapt the racks and stations.
Start from this model for freeAsk your AI
Ask the AI to compare packing, transport or truck-handling arrangements.
Where is the bottleneck in a warehouse or a plant?
In this warehouse (as drawn), for the afternoon's shipping, compare the orders that miss the 15:45 cutoff with four to seven pickers and two or three packing stations, 20 runs each, and tell me where the bottleneck is.
Quotation from Read the article
When does a building need indoor hydrants?
Does this building (a single-storey warehouse with a total floor area of 1,500 m², quasi-fire-resistant with flame-retardant finishes, as drawn) need indoor hydrants? If so, how many, and where, so that every part of the floor is within 25 m?
Quotation from Read the article
Check, export and share
Review order and task-time assumptions, then export the logistics proposal.
Models you can start with
3PL warehouse with a pick mezzanine
Docks and staging lanes, pallet racking, a shelving mezzanine with a goods lift, cart picking, packing benches, carrier dispatch lanes, offices and a truck yard.
- Desks
- 4 desks in 1 islands, ready for the seat map
- Size
- 72 × 48 m, 2 levels
Opens in Studio without an account.
Steel warehouse: one storey of 1,500 m²
A one-storey steel warehouse of 50 × 30 m, a quasi-fire-resistant building: the office in a corner, pallet racks in two blocks, the staging area along three docks and four indoor fire hydrants on the walls, ready to check whether it needs indoor fire hydrants and whether they reach every part of the floor.
- Articles
- Size
- 50 × 30 m
A free account is needed to start.
New 3PL client
Price a new client's afternoon wave: how many pickers and pack stations get every order to the carrier by the cut-off.
- How many pickers and packers to make a warehouse's carrier cut-off?
- How many security cameras does a warehouse need?
Robot picking shift
See whether the pick stations or the robot fleet limit a goods-to-person picking shift.
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Logistics hub weekday morning
Run a morning at a logistics hub and see whether trucks wait for a dock or for the check-in window.
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Components factory: trucks, forklifts and AMRs
Are the trucks waiting on the forklift or on the AMRs? See which extra vehicle gets them off the docks sooner.
Explore example
Compare robot counts and layout changes
Saved fleet and layout options, repeated comparisons and proposal drawings.
Explore example
Frequently asked questions
How many picking robots (AMRs)?
Beyond 24 robots the time per line does not change: 24 robots are 0.7 s slower than 32 (95% interval −0.1 to 1.4 s), so no difference is shown.
Read the articleWhich gets trucks off the docks sooner, an AMR or a forklift?
A second forklift, not a third AMR, cuts the inbound trucks' time at the docks from 17.9 to 6.1 minutes (66% less) and the outbound trucks' time from 23.1 to 8.6 minutes (63% less).
Read the articleYour warehouse, built with AI.
3PL warehouse with a pick mezzanine
Start from this model for freeArticles for this use
Warehouse operations (7)
A robot fleet proposal from a customer's warehouse drawing
Moving the packing benches nearer the pick zones cut the mean wait for a robot at stand A from 10.8 minutes with 4 robots in the original layout to 2.3 minutes with 3.
How many pickers and packers to make a warehouse's carrier cut-off?
With today’s 4 pickers and 2 pack stations, 25.2 orders miss the cut-off at 15:45, and with 6 pickers and 3 pack stations only 1.1 of the 91.5 orders do.
How many picking robots (AMRs)?
Beyond 24 robots the time per line does not change: 24 robots are 0.7 s slower than 32 (95% interval −0.1 to 1.4 s), so no difference is shown.
Which gets trucks off the docks sooner, an AMR or a forklift?
A second forklift, not a third AMR, cuts the inbound trucks' time at the docks from 17.9 to 6.1 minutes (66% less) and the outbound trucks' time from 23.1 to 8.6 minutes (63% less).
Is it the check-in or the docks that keeps trucks waiting at a hub?
With one person at the check-in window, a truck waits 23.6 minutes from arriving to unloading whatever the docks, 15.3 minutes (95% interval 12.0 to 18.6 minutes) more than today.
How many robots?
More robots stop helping once something else decides: 32 picking robots take 320.1 seconds a line against 320.8 with 24, and a third AMR leaves a factory's inbound trucks at 17.9 minutes while a second forklift brings them to 6.1.
Where is the bottleneck in a warehouse or a plant?
A second person at reception cuts the trucks' time from 23.6 minutes to 8.3, and a 2-minute test lets the plant ship all 11.0 orders.
Warehouse fire checks (7)
Does a steel warehouse need indoor fire hydrants, and do they reach?
The 1,484.04 m² warehouse needs indoor fire hydrants, and four hydrants reach every part of the floor within 19.46 m, inside the 25 m limit.
How many extinguishers and fire detectors for a 1,484 m² warehouse?
For the 1,484.04 m² warehouse, five extinguishers of three units each (15 units) cover the 14.84 units needed, and the fire alarm needs 20 smoke detectors.
How many extinguishers, and where?
Eleven facilities checked against Japan's extinguisher rules: a banquet hall of 1,262.06 m² needs 12.62 units, a convenience store of 272.06 m² 2.72, and an animal hospital of 210.04 m² needs none.
When is an automatic fire alarm required?
29 facilities: some uses need an alarm at any size, others from 300, 500 or 1,000 m².
Exit signs
Of 21 examples that need them on every floor, only a small café may; a convenience store 16.72 m from its farthest point cannot.
When does a building need indoor hydrants?
Indoor hydrants are needed from 500, 700 or 1,000 m² of total floor area by use, doubled or tripled if fire-resistant.
Which fire equipment does a building need?
Extinguishers, fire alarms, indoor hydrants and exit signs for 29 facilities an AI checked.
Warehouse cameras (2)
How many security cameras does a warehouse need?
Your AI counts on the plan how many security cameras a warehouse needs: ten cameras see 83% of the docks, work areas and aisles, sixteen 94%.
How many security cameras?
In ten facilities counted on the plan, six cameras see 91.9% of a convenience store; in a warehouse, ten see 83.0% and sixteen see 94.3%.