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OPEX Cold Storage Automation Solution Highlights Multi-Temperature Fulfillment Innovation
Source: OPEX Corporation
Ce qui s'est passé
OPEX Corporation has been recognized by Logistics Matters with the 2026 Warehouse Solution of the Year Award for its first-of-its-kind cold storage automation solution. The announcement highlights OPEX’s multi-temperature, multi-deep cold storage capability for automated warehouse fulfillment systems, developed through a technology partnership with cold chain commerce innovator Peltier.
The solution brings multi-temperature functionality into OPEX’s Perfect Pick and Infinity automated storage and retrieval systems through the use of Peltier Tote technology. Pour les opérateurs de la chaîne du froid, this is relevant because it points to a more flexible fulfillment model where ambient, glacé, and frozen products can be handled within a more integrated automation environment.
Comment ça marche
The OPEX-Peltier model uses temperature-controlled totes within automated storage and retrieval workflows. Instead of relying only on large freezer rooms, separate chilled chambers, or fully dedicated cold storage infrastructure, the system allows individual totes to maintain controlled temperature setpoints while moving through an automated warehouse environment.
The solution is designed to support ambient, réfrigéré, and frozen products within a single AS/RS framework. Each tote can be supported with power while in multi-deep storage, and temperatures are maintained during transport by OPEX iBOT robotic vehicles.
From a cold chain engineering perspective, this approach addresses a long-standing operational challenge: how to combine automated fulfillment speed with temperature-controlled product integrity. Traditional freezer environments can be expensive, labor-intensive, and difficult to automate at high speed. A tote-level cold chain system creates a more modular structure, allowing temperature control to move closer to the product unit.
Pourquoi ça compte
Cold chain fulfillment is becoming more complex as grocery, pharmaceutique, sciences de la vie, restauration, and e-commerce operators handle more mixed-temperature orders. A single customer order may include frozen products, produits réfrigérés, et biens ambiants. Managing these flows through separate infrastructure can create extra handling steps, longer pick cycles, higher labor requirements, and greater temperature excursion risk.
Multi-temperature automation can reduce those barriers. By integrating controlled-temperature totes into AS/RS workflows, operators may reduce product handoffs, improve pick accuracy, and support faster order assembly while maintaining cold chain integrity.
This is especially important for high-throughput fulfillment environments where labor availability, energy cost, empreinte de l'entrepôt, and service-level performance all affect operating economics.
Impact B2B
For grocery and foodservice operators, the OPEX solution highlights a potential path toward more flexible mixed-temperature fulfillment. Instead of separating frozen, glacé, and ambient order flows into disconnected operational zones, retailers may be able to consolidate more activity into an automated system.
For pharmaceutical and life sciences logistics providers, the same concept may support tighter product control in facilities handling temperature-sensitive healthcare products, provided that validation, qualification, and monitoring requirements are properly addressed.
For cold chain equipment and automation suppliers, the development signals rising demand for systems that combine robotics, contrôle de la température, Connectivité IoT, and real-time condition monitoring. Buyers are no longer looking only for more cold storage capacity. They increasingly need automation that protects product integrity while improving throughput.
Pour les fournisseurs de solutions de chaîne du froid B2B, the strategic takeaway is clear: future cold chain fulfillment will be more modular, basé sur les données, and product-level. Solutions that bring temperature control closer to the handling unit may help operators reduce infrastructure complexity while improving operational flexibility.
