End-to-End Integrated Warehouse Automation Solutions
Warehouse automation solutions employ the most advanced technology to optimize logistics processes such as goods receipt and dispatch, order picking, and inventory management. Implementing automated solutions in your facility ramps up productivity, reduces travel times, and ensures uninterrupted operations. Process automation eliminates the risk of error due to manual management of operations and guarantees maximum reliability in moving loads between two or more areas of the building.
Goods-to-Person (G2P) and Robotic Storage
The goods-to-person picking method employs machines or robots to supply products to the pick stations. These automated solutions move the goods to the operator’s station, avoiding unnecessary travel in the facility. Robotic GTP optimizes product storage, retrieval, and order picking.
Key components of G2P systems include:
- Stacker cranes for pallets or boxes: This automatic handling equipment runs up and down the aisles of an AS/RS, depositing and removing goods from the racks.
- Conveyors for boxes or pallets: This internal goods transport system connects two or more areas of a warehouse.
- Automated guided vehicles (AGVs): This automatic handling equipment transfers unit loads between areas without the need for a driver.
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs): This cutting-edge technology solution moves goods in the warehouse autonomously using cameras and state-of-the-art sensors.
Autonomous Mobile Robots and Voice Picking
The integration of Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) and Voice Picking creates a highly efficient fulfillment environment. Real-time Distribution Software (RDS) combined with advanced AMRs support both large capacity batch cart picking and mixed case pick-to-pallet applications. The RDS application module, Batchbot™, unites people and robots to enable faster picking by reducing walk time by 50% and increasing operator pick rates by 50-100%.
Furthermore, Pick by Voice using mobile wearable computers, hands-free camera-based scanners, and wireless headsets improves pick rates by 20-30% over RF terminal picking technology. Combining voice picking with optimized order release, cartonization, and batch cart order assignment logic enhances pack validation for a leaner, faster, and highly accurate single-step order picking process.
Maximizing Storage Density and Operational Efficiency
Our high-capacity ACRs provide a remarkably small footprint with a vertical reach of over 12m high, allowing our solutions to reduce a facility’s storage footprint by up to 75%. Extreme storage density with 3-deep ChainPick technology allows facilities to store more in less space.
The following performance metrics highlight the impact of these solutions:
- 99.99% Order Picking Accuracy
- 4X Operational Efficiency
- 3X Daily Order Throughput
- Up to 400% Storage Density
- 1-3 Years ROI
Packaging Automation and S.L.A.M. Technology
Advanced systems automatically scan, label, apply and manifest (S.L.A.M). This technology scans, weighs, dims, and captures images of cases and carton contents for order validation and improved customer service. Our conveyor-based pack automation technologies combine pick and pack to carton processes with in-line scan-weight vision content audit, automatic documentation print and insert, and shipping sortation for end-to-end GTP pick, pack, and ship order fulfillment automation.
Warehouse Software Orchestration
A logistics program such as a Warehouse Management System (WMS) plays a major role in coordinating the functions of the automatic equipment. For example, once an inspection system finds a pallet to be in good condition, the WMS directs the item to be stored, assigning it a location in the AS/RS. Comprehensive warehouse software suites include:
- Warehouse Execution System (WES)
- Warehouse Control System (WCS)
- Warehouse Management System (WMS)
- Labor Tracking and Reporting
