Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.31
Waltham, Mass.-based 6 River Systems (6RS), a provider of collaborative warehouse solutions and subsidiary of multi-channel commerce platform Shopify, said today that it has rolled out various enhancements to Chuck, its collaborative mobile robot. 6RS officials explained that the company’s solution is able to manage the entire fulfillment workflow, ranging from putaway to picking, sorting, and packing. And they added that the new improvements to its order allocation algorithm and organizations to batch, zone, and other picking methodologies focus on cutting down on associate walking in the warehouse, coupled with new modular and larger multi-level workspaces, help to make Chuck…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.52
RightHand Robotics (RHR), a leader in providing autonomous robotic picking solutions, is pleased to announce the company’s global expansion in Europe with the establishment of a sales and business development office in Frankfurt, Germany. With multiple customers and partners based in Europe, RHR’s German operation will strengthen the company’s business and enable them to further expand their presence as the market grows and their customer base deepens in the region. With broad experience in next-generation fulfillment solutions, Jon Schechter has been named to lead RHR’s German office, serving as Head of Europe. Schechter spent 10 years designing robotic fulfillment centers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.54
ABB, a world-leading supplier of industrial robots, and Silicon Valley AI start-up, Covariant, today announced a partnership to bring AI-enabled robotics solutions to market, starting with a fully autonomous warehouse order fulfillment solution. The partnership brings together the two companies with a shared vision for robotics enabled by AI, where intelligent robots work alongside humans in dynamic environments, collectively learning and improving with every task completed. Given the accelerated global growth experienced in the e-commerce sector, ABB identified a significant opportunity for AI-enabled robotics solutions across a broad range of applications including logistics, warehousing, and parcels and mail sorting. Global…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.37
Fetch Robotics, a leader in cloud robotics and on-demand automation, today announced the immediate availability of Workflow Builder, the company’s new drag-and-drop development toolkit that allows shippers to implement flexible automation in existing manufacturing, distribution and fulfillment facilities without the time, expense, and inflexibility of fixed automation or traditional autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Based on Blockly, the language used to teach non-programmers to code, Workflow Builder provides a visual and intuitive tool that shippers can use to deploy flexible automation in days, iterate to perfect workflows, change workflows as needs evolve, and later integrate into WMSs (warehouse management systems), WESs…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.74
In conversation after conversation, we continue to learn of the deep changes that e-commerce has ushered into logistics and transportation practices, from tightening up inventory and fulfillment management to elevating the importance of final-mile delivery and returns processes—and everything in between. To respond, logistics professionals now need to leverage diverse systems and new ways of thinking in an effort to improve carrier partnerships and increase speed and efficiency. With that in mind, the editorial staff of Logistics Management (a sibling site to Robotics 24/7) has put together a collection of features to help readers push that pace of change inside…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.12
What does it take to put together an award winning supply chain utilizing NextGen supply chain technologies? That’s one of the questions that will be answered at the NextGen Supply Chain Technology Conference, April 27 – 29, 2020 at the Chicago Athletic Association hotel in Chicago. The conference is sponsored by Supply Chain Management Review. You can click here to view the agenda. Click here to register. All too often, new technologies are a tough sell. And it’s no different, in fact it may be even tougher, with NextGen Technologies from AI to blockchain, robotics , analytics and the big…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.43
Here’s a fact for you: At present, Amazon employs more than 400,000 full and part-time associates worldwide across a network of 110 North American and another 75 around the globe. So, given that the shortage of logistics workers is a top topic at every industry event I attend, just what is Amazon doing to win the war on talent, given the scale of its operations. That’s a question I posed to spokesperson Todd Walker at the end of our recent tour of Amazon’s highly-automated robotic fulfillment center in North Haven, Connecticut. The short answer is that Amazon is investing in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.38
Amazon Robotic Fulfillment Center, North Haven, Connecticut Opened: June 2019 (watch video) Size: 855,000 square feet Dock Doors: 62 SKUs: 1 million + Throughput: 1 million + orders per day during peak Shifts: 2 10-hour shifts per day, with downtime for maintenance between shifts Employees: 2,500 full-time associates, each working 4 shifts per week Primary Material Handling Equipment: Goods-to-person picking on a four-level pick module enabled by Amazon Robotics; ten miles of conveyor and sortation; cubing and weighing, automatic labeling, spiral conveyors and trailer-loading conveyor Area of Coverage: The facility’s primary role is the fulfillment of Prime orders in southern…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.41
AHS (Advanced Handling Systems), a full-service provider of integrated fulfillment, distribution, and robotic solutions, has formed a partnership with Mobile Industrial Robots – an autonomous industrial mobile robotic supplier based in Denmark as a Certified Systems Integrator. Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) develops and markets the industry’s most advanced line of collaborative and safe autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that quickly, easily, and cost-effectively manage internal logistics, freeing employees for higher-value activities. Hundreds of mid to large sized, multinational manufacturers and logistics centers, along with several hospitals around the world, have already installed MiR’s innovative robots. MiR has quickly established a global…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.35
UST Global, leading digital transformation solutions company, announced a partnership with GreyOrange, a global software and mobile robotics provider that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to optimize fulfillment operations. GreyOrange is the only company that integrates software and robots built together into a Fulfillment Operating System that continuously solves distribution center challenges. The partnership with GreyOrange is part of the UST Global ‘AI-first agenda’ which leverages technology to offer digital solutions that optimize cost, improve turnaround promises and offer an outstanding customer experience. The retail and logistics industries will benefit from the joint offering, which provides them with the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.44
…about to disappear into the back room. It’s called micro-fulfillment, and it’s poised to explode in grocery as well as general retail. That’s all very attention getting, but we haven’t even mentioned robots yet. Look for them to stoke the fires of change in order fulfillment for years to come. The story is compression All of that said, take a deep breath, please. Yes, retail is changing. Rapidly. But it is not the end of consumer buying. We need to get past words such as “apocalyptic” and “retail vortex.” Those are nothing more than click bait. What is happening is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.33
Demand for e-grocery Automating e-grocery processes has suddenly become essential. Nielsen and the Food Marketing Institute project spending on e-grocery to triple by 2022 and many grocers have already reached the point where using pickers as surrogate shoppers, traveling up and down store aisles pulling orders from shelves, has become unsustainable. The economics don’t make sense and the increased congestion is frustrating in-store shoppers. Several major grocers are moving forward with plans to automate the complex e-grocery fulfillment process. But no clear consensus on the best approach has emerged. E-grocery fulfillment is particularly challenging because of the variety of products…