Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.45
August 30, 2017
…and ship operations, says Dan Hanrahan, CEO of The Numina Group. “I look at order fulfillment as a three-legged stool of picking, packing and shipping,” he says. “If any one of those areas gets out of alignment with the others, it causes problems.” For example, says Hanrahan, if a DC adopts voice picking and ramps up the number of orders picked per hour, but has no pack automation in place, a bottleneck can easily occur at its pack stations. The better approach, says Hanrahan, is to look at ways to balance the flow of work through the overall system, rather…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.97
April 04, 2022
…access to new markets included Murata Machinery and AGVE Group, Muratec and Cimcorp, and Addverb Technologies and Numina Group. And, while not really a consolidation, I remain impressed by the amount of private equity funds that continue to be invested in our space. Robotics reaches a tipping point Back in 2015, I invited Tom Galluzzo, the co-founder of IAM Robotics, to write an article for Supply Chain Management Review [Editor's Note: a sibling site to Robotics 24/7] on why roboticists like him were jumping into the materials handling space. The resulting article was titled “Robotics at the Tipping Point.” The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.91
May 03, 2022
…governance (ESG) goals? Those were the questions HARTING Technology Group asked in 2012 as it began the design of a new 615,000-sq.-ft. European DC. The organization is the logistics arm of HARTING, a suppliers of product that enable industrial automation. “After 20 years, the software running our existing European distribution center was unstable, and we needed more space and throughput capacity,” recalled Achim Meyer, managing director of logistics at the Espelkamp, German-based company. Meyer’s team worked with integrator Körber AG to design a showcase for automation. It included robotic case handing, automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), a shuttle system,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.22
December 17, 2021
…The centerpiece was a robot-to-goods picking system designed by Numina Group that used autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) from Waypoint Robotics, which Locus Robotics acquired this year. The ability of Waypoint Robotics' AMRs to carry up to 700 lb. was essential because NorthShore Care ships full cases to its customers. Those cases were delivered to a fairly automated packing, labeling, and shipping line. Greenberg, the company's president, said he embraced automation for several reasons: First, it was now affordable for midmarket companies like NorthShore Care Supply. Second, automation allowed Greenberg to build capacity into the system—he saw a 40% to 50%…
