Robotics and AI in Logistics

Pick-it-Easy Robot is the right choice, not just for automatic single-item picking but also for the induction of articles in pre-picked batch containers into overhead or sorting systems. Various grippers, AI-based object recognition – the so-called Covariant Brain – and grip point specification mean that the Pick-it-Easy Robot can handle a broad article range, for many applications in diverse sectors. Even when goods have reflective surfaces, the Pick-it-Easy Robot knows exactly where to hold them and gently places them exactly where they belong. Machine learning means that the system is continuously learning and improving itself.

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With the Pick-it-Easy Robot, we combine cutting-edge technology with comprehensive logistics expertise. It’s not just the artificial intelligence that makes the fully automatic robot station special, it’s how well it can be integrated, and what it adds through its high performance.

Obeta is a German electrical wholesaler with headquarters in Berlin and boasts 28,000 customers and 64 locations across Germany. With the help of the Pick-it-Easy Robot, they pack thousands of customer orders every day. Michael Pultke, Head of Logistics, Obeta, provides insight.

Pick-it-Easy Robot in operation at Obeta

The combination of a fast shuttle system and a reliable picking robot creates an efficient, fully automatic goods-to-robot picking process.

Combining the powerful pocket sorter system and the Pick-it-Easy Robot results in an efficient solution for multi-channel applications, especially in the fashion and retail sectors.

RUNPICK – short for Robotic Universal Picker – takes store delivery up to a whole new level. Specially developed for food retail, the system processes and palletizes large handling units for brick and mortar retail fully automatically. The robot is capable of store-friendly picking and handles both fresh and shelf-stable goods on pallets and roll containers. Multiple item picking allows several items to be deposited at the same time in just one cycle, leading to a considerable increase of performance.

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RUNPICK provides higher throughput, shorter container transit times, and adaptability for food retail. With its intelligent packing algorithm, selectable picking criteria and its combining of different pack unit types, the robot is an ace at store-friendly delivery.

RUNPICK can ideally be integrated in solutions for brick and mortar retail as well as in omnichannel models.

The omnichannel solution OmnIQ connects all logistics processes within a warehouse: e-commerce, brick and mortar retail, as well as a combination of both. In the fully automatic version, our intelligent robots take on the work: Pick-it-Easy Robot processes single items while RUNPICK processes large handling units, both fully automatically.

In our blog we talk about how RUNPICK is revolutionizing food retail warehousing.

Loading and unloading pallets is a physically strenuous task for employees because of the heavy lifting involved. This is where robots can really lighten the load as part of innovative automation solutions. In goods-in, they depalletize fully automatically and prepare the articles for storage. In goods-out, they assemble stable pallets for shipping. Robots can also stack and destack cartons and standard handling units, and load dollies, all of that fully automatically. This full automation both takes the strain off employees and increases efficiency.

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Whatever your business model, robot solutions for palletizing and depalletizing deliver the required flexibility and performance. Robots function extremely well in various processes:

• Depalletizing various handling units and loading them directly into storage containers
• Palletizing store containers or empty handling units layer by layer
• Stacking and destacking cartons and standard handling units
• Loading various container types onto dollies
• Mixed case palletizing of cartons or store containers

The exclusive perfumes and cosmetics giant Parfums Christian Dior uses KNAPP robot solutions for their manufacturing location in Saint-Jean-de-Braye, France. Automation is what makes efficient omni-channel fulfillment possible. Smart robots handle most of the work, boosting distribution performance.

Head over to our blog to find out more about the solution at Parfums Christian Dior.

The OSR Shuttle™ Evo takes care of the processes before and after. After automatic depalletization or destacking, the articles are stored in the OSR Shuttle™ Evo until they are needed. Later, the OSR Shuttle™ Evo retrieves the handling units in the correct sequence, so that the end result is a stable shipping pallet.

The robots need to know where on the target load carrier to place the cartons or handling units – this intelligent software works in the background to provide this information. KiSoft Pack Master calculates the perfect packing pattern, determining the sequence in which the articles are retrieved from the OSR Shuttle™ Evo.

Can transport processes within a facility run flexibly? Of course they can. With the Open Shuttles, it’s easy. These autonomous mobile robots connect different areas within facilities quickly and efficiently, bringing goods, raw materials and components to where they need to be. Taking different kinds of load carriers from A to B is a breeze for the Open Shuttles. Thanks to their innovative technology, they act with complete autonomy, they don’t need any aids, and they are 100% safe for people. What’s more, they are flexible and easy to integrate.

Open Shuttles are so flexible that various logistical challenges are a breeze for them, whether they are deployed as a stand-alone solution or as part of an all-in-one solution. The autonomous mobile robots act as an intelligent swarm and are easy to configure.

The Swiss flow meter manufacturer Digmesa adapted the transport processes in manufacturing after merging locations. An Open Shuttle is now responsible for supplying injection molding machines with empty containers and for taking finished parts to buffer storage. Stefan Schneider, CEO Digmesa AG, talks about the decision for an Open Shuttle:

Perfect flexibility meets perfect performance: Together, the OSR Shuttle™ Evo and the Open Shuttle are even more powerful as a smart system solution – the OSR Shuttle™ Evo+. Goods, raw materials, overstock, buffered orders – everything is stored centrally in the OSR Shuttle™ Evo. The Open Shuttles supply different work stations in diverse warehouse areas directly from the OSR Shuttle™ Evo just-in-time.

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