In a press conference Monday, Swisslog (Booth 7613) detailed a commissioned installation of its Click&Pick goods-to-person, multi-channel robotic order fulfillment system for LIDS Sports Group, part of Hat World. (A demo of the Click&Pick system is featured in the Swisslog booth.)
The system will be installed at the company’s central DC in Indianapolis, said T.J. Fanning, Swisslog’s director of customer support sales and account management. “This project will support LIDS’ continued sales growth and ensures fast, accurate order fulfillment to their stores, third-party partners and direct e-commerce customers,” he said.
Click&Pick’s 3D grid of stacked cubes holds bins of SKUs. Wheeled robotic pickers travel across the top of the grid tracks, pulling each required bin and depositing it in a chute that sends it to a picking station. There, an operator selects the required item and routes it to packing.
“Click&Pick will transform the automated omni-channel solution landscape through speed, efficiency, storage density and sustainability,” said Markus Schmidt, SVP of Swisslog. He also detailed Swisslog’s 2013 results and its strategic priorities for 2014.
Randy Jennings, Swisslog’s director of food and beverage sales, also shared automation trends for refrigerated and frozen foods and discussed recent sales in this segment.
Modex 2014 is scheduled to be held March 17-20, 2014 in Atlanta’s Georgia World Conference Center. The tradeshow will showcase the latest manufacturing, distribution and supply chain solutions in the material handling and logistics industry. Modern’s complete Modex 2014 coverage.
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Sara Pearson SpecterSara Pearson Specter has written articles and supplements for Modern Materials Handling and Material Handling Product News as an Editor at Large since 2001. Specter has worked in the fields of graphic design, advertising, marketing, and public relations for nearly 20 years, with a special emphasis on helping business-to-business industrial and manufacturing companies. She owns her own marketing communications firm,
Sara Specter, Marketing Mercenary LLC. Clients include companies in a diverse range of fields, including materials handing equipment, systems and packaging, professional and financial services, regional economic development and higher education. Specter graduated from Centre College in Danville, Ky. with a bachelor’s degree in French and history. She lives in Oregon’s Willamette Valley where she and her husband are in the process of establishing a
vineyard and winery.
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