kardex Auto Store Overcome Labor Shortage User Guide

Kardex Auto Store Overcome Labor Shortage

Product Information

Specifications

• Product Name: AutoStore Robotics Solutions
• Designed for: Warehouse automation and order fulfilment
• Features : Pick and place robots, seamless warehouse integration, process quality enhancement
• Benefits : Flexible, adaptable, financially savvy

Product Usage Instructions

1. Manage Fluctuating Demand and Peak Loads:
   AutoStore Robotics Solutions help in managing fluctuating demand and peak loads efficiently. The robots can handle varying workloads without compromising performance.

2. Improve Workplace Ergonomics:
   By automating manual tasks, the solutions contribute to improving workplace ergonomics by reducing the physical strain on employees.

3. Mitigate Risks Caused by Labor Shortages and Fluctuations:
   AutoStore Robotics Solutions mitigate risks associated with labor shortages by providing a reliable and consistent workforce that operates 24/7.

4. Operate 24/7 for Efficient Utilization of AutoStore Ports:
   The robots can operate continuously, enabling efficient utilization of AutoStore ports and enhancing overall warehouse performance.

5. Piece Picking in Today’s Market:
   In today’s dynamic market, piece picking requires fast, flexible, and economical solutions. AutoStore Robotics Solutions offer the capabilities to meet these demands efficiently.

6. Seamless Warehouse Integration:
   The pick and place robots seamlessly integrate with AutoStore systems, enhancing performance rates and streamlining order fulfillment processes.

7. Modern Order Fulfillment:
   The robots work flawlessly round the clock, adapting to diverse product ranges and ensuring efficient order processing.

8. Process Quality Enhancement:
   The robotics solutions digitize workflows, improving the quality and reliability of warehouse processes significantly.

Reliable solutions for unstable times

• As companies strive to grow, today’s consumer behaviours and global economic situation are causing constant bumps in the road. Labor shortages, volatile workloads and consumer expectations make it difficult to achieve sustainable growth. With the right warehouse tools in place, companies can overcome these challenges and stay ahead of their competitors.
• Switching the mindset from manual to automated tools is a step in the right direction. Stop spending endless hours finding qualified staff or training new team members. Instead, focus on options that enable your warehouse to benefit from both financial and performance growth.
• In association with robotics experts and as a partner of AutoStore, Kardex provides customers with an extreme advantage by integrating robots that pick, process and place single items and full cases to and from any picking station. Pick and place robots work flawlessly 24 hours a day, and at a high-speed rate of up to 1,200 picks per hour. Using hardware-independent 3D vision software, pick and place robots can replicate the exact precision and synchronisation of a human’s eye-hand coordination to create a multifunctional and versatile robotic solution.

Piece picking in today’s market

• Piece picking has traditionally been performed manually. In today’s reality with constantly increasing SKU diversification, changing order structures, and the ongoing trend towards e-commerce, new order fulfilment solutions are needed. Solutions that are fast, flexible and economical.
• Many companies face significant challenges with order picking due to the increasing complexity of market requirements. In some instances, workers first separate products visually and then pick and place them. In other cases, workers pick single pieces from the storage system and then bring them to another source (e.g., packing machine or sorting system). Both applications are characterized by high demands on the workforce accompanied by corre-sponding monotony.
• Robotics solutions offered by Kardex combine software and hardware mechanisms by using 3D cameras, grippers and smart software algorithms. The technology allows the robots to recognize, grip and locate objects precisely. They provide safe, high-performance picking and placing for various items commonly seen in e-commerce such as cubes, tubes, cylinders and various other shapes.
• Robotics solutions are a key ingredient to a successful and competitive order fulfilment system. Using flexible mechanical grippers capable of picking and placing, pick and place robots will propel your automated storage system into the future. They equip them with accelerated speed and accuracy, significantly and sustainably surpassing the throughput rates of “real” human hands or “picking only” robots.

Seamless warehouse integration
Pick and place robots easily integrate with AutoStore systems achieving what was once unimaginable performance rates. They separate, orientate, measure, sort, scan and transport products from A to B without requiring master data or a teach-in process.

• Works with various AutoStore processes including pick-to-tote, pick-to-belt, pick-to-pallet, consolidation and even replenishment
• Connects to various storage systems, sorter systems, packing lines, etc.
• Communicates with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Warehouse Control Systems (WCS)
• Picks unknown items randomly placed in a goods-to-person system as well as from a segmented bin

Modern order fulfillment
Pick and place robots work flawlessly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is a critical component when working in an industry where customers place orders around the clock from every corner of the globe. Advanced features allow the robots to manage a diverse and continuously changing product range.

• Pick up to 1,200 items per hour
• Reach and lift adjusts based on needs
• Manage single items as well as entire totes
• Ideal for piece picking and replenishment
• Automatically measure products to place them appropriately and smoothly

Process quality
All business processes and material flows are fully transparent. Robotics provide a 100% digitized workflow, which helps to improve the quality and reliability of warehouse processes significantly.

• Optimization of picking quality
• Reduction of customer complaints
• Avoidance of inventory inconsistency
• Flawless information flow (e.g., to procurement, production, shipping, etc.)
• Solid base for process audits

Benefits

Robotics solutions are applicable across various industries and are designed to benefit highly competitive order fulfilment.

• Flexible
  Pick and place robots are extremely flexible – they seamlessly manage product diversity, order structure, business processes and material flows

• Adaptable
  As products and seasons change, demands change. Pick and place robots can adjust to project specific requirements

• Financially-savvy
  Warehouse performance goes up while reducing dependency on labor availability

We understand you. Now let us support you on your journey.
As a partner of AutoStore and in association with robotics experts, such as Robomotive, Kardex provides customers with integrated robotics solutions. By introducing these highly sophisticated warehouse enhancements, companies can grow product lines stress-free. Pick and place robots work sustainably without training 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The endless search for qualified workers and fear of continuously changing staff requirements are eliminated.

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FAQ

Q: Are AutoStore Robotics Solutions suitable for all industries?
A: Yes, the robotics solutions are applicable across various industries and are designed to benefit highly competitive order fulfillment processes.

Q: Can the pick and place robots adjust to changing demands?
A: Yes, the robots are flexible and adaptable, capable of adjusting to project-specific requirements as products and seasons change.

References

• Official Site of Kardex | Kardex Remstar | Kardex Mlog

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