Modula was founded in 1987, based on Franco Stefani’s imaginative idea of a vertical warehouse to store electronics materials at his System Ceramics production plants, where machines for the ceramic industry were designed.
He physically designed the first Modula, drawing inspiration from the rotating warehouses already in existence, which used operators to pick up and drop off the pieces required, rapidly and ergonomically.
This formed the basis for the first Modula, bearing a name that immediately referred to its modularity and flexibility. Since then, the project has moved forward a great deal.
The first Modula warehouses were used in-house in Fiorano Modenese, before they aroused interest in the world of ceramics, System’s field.
As they became more widespread and given the clear benefits of their use, they captured the attention of other companies in other sectors. Their adoption then slowly began in the plants of mechanical companies, especially in Emilia Romagna.
Since 2000, a veritable explosion was set off and the sales network expanded to cover new sectors and new requirements.
Modula itself is equipped with its own automatic warehouses; from the outset, it has always been a Factory 4.0 in every respect.
While our products and markets have been developing, and our clients and their requirements have been increasing, so too has Modula’s production capacity been extended and developed. After taking our first steps at our Fiorano Modenese site, we needed to dedicate an entire production facility containing the latest production technology to Modula. So, in 2009, Salvaterra di Casalgrande was established, based on lean manufacturing and Industry 4.0 principles with interconnected processes and new man-machine interaction paradigms.
