Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.61
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 7.31
April 04, 2022
…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 tipping point that Tom was referring to was…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.60
May 03, 2022
…The centerpiece was a robot-to-goods picking system designed by Numina Group that used autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) from Waypoint Robotics, since purchased by Locus Robotics. The ability of Waypoint's AMRs to carry up to 700 lb. was essential because NorthShore Care ships full cases of product to its customers. Those cases were delivered to an automated packing, labeling, and shipping line. The Waypoint Vector AMRs use wireless chargers from WiBotic. That was Phase 1. A year later, Greenberg launched Phase 2 when he automated receiving and palletizing with help from Exact Automation and FANUC. Greenberg said he has embraced automation…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.03
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%…
