Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.08
February 15, 2021
…managed by Cimcorp’s MultiPick system that features six overhead gantry robots inside three cells that can rapidly receive products in trays, place them onto a stack, and assemble the required product quantities per order. Kwik Trip also uses a pick-by-light capability for picking and distribution of less-than-full trays in outbound orders. A WCS (also from Cimcorp) controls and directs the MultiPick to pick the orders based on store and route. This software-driven orchestration helps Kwik Trip ensure orders are picked with 100% accuracy before being sent for dispatch. The automated warehousing solution allows Kwik Trip to effectively manage all 80,000…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.80
February 27, 2020
…booth #2432 featuring the capabilities of their LSAM dual gantry and moving table (MT) machines. LSAM is a new technology for large-scale 3D printing of thermoplastic polymers. Thermwood’s LSAM machines use technology to produce the highest quality thermoplastic polymer printed structures available. The machines feature both additive and subtractive heads to accommodate printing and trimming of large scale “near net shape” parts on the same machine. Thermwood’s LSAM machines are available in Dual Gantry and Moving Table models, in a variety of sizes. Both systems can process high temperature polymers which are ideal for autoclave capable tooling or compression molds…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.47
October 09, 2019
…robotic solution features eight robots that operate on overhead gantries to combine buffer storage and order picking functions into one operation. The robots handle perishable goods in plastic crates in the refrigerated zones. Although fully integrated with the surrounding manual operations, the system is effectively an island of automation that prepares orders for retail stores, enabling them to be transported to the supermarkets without the need for any further processing. With product pallets going in and store pallets coming out, the island is self-sufficient, taking care of goods reception; put-away; location of stored items; retrieval planning; picking of crates; sorting…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.36
May 20, 2019
…30,000 mm/min with multiple extruder heads on the same gantry, according to Titan Robotics. “With the launch of Atlas-H, we believe both existing and new customers will benefit from increased speed and reduced raw material cost with high reliability never seen before in this industry. Our expanded product portfolio empowers our customers, enabling them to choose the configuration that meets their production needs,” said Titan’s CCO, Rahul Kasat, via a press release. “Available configurations include options for multiple filament and pellet extruders on a single gantry, thus optimizing customers’ capital investments and operating expenses.” Titan plans to conduct live 3D…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.20
June 18, 2018
…range of case sizes and brands,” said Jacobs. Huge gantry robots will build what are called rainbow pallets, with layer after layer of different Nestlé products,” said Jacobs. “Once the innovation lab gets rolling, we will pilot technology that is not even on the industry’s radar yet but is on our radar.” In terms of personnel at this DC, Jacobs said there will be several hundred jobs created there, and he said the labor base there will be planning-related, with a high level of analytics, in addition to manual tasks. “The lab will be an incubator and a launch pad…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.04
August 01, 2017
…axes at right angles to each other, like a gantry crane, and featured a rotating gripper that allowed the robot to pick up items using either suction or a simple two-finger grip. This year’s finalists demonstrated sophisticated solutions combining object recognition, pose recognition, grasp planning, compliant manipulation, motion planning, task planning, task execution, and error detection and recovery to successfully pick and stow unique items. Teams were judged based on how many items were successfully picked and stowed by their robots in a fixed amount of time. A total of $270,000 in prizes were awarded to contestants throughout the four-day…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.96
June 08, 2017
…mobile robots, robotic shuttle systems, industrial robotic arms and gantry robots. Mobile robots take on sortation Mobile robotics are beginning to be applied to other tasks besides goods transport. Providers such as IAM Robotics offer mobile robots that can do piece picking, and now Tompkins International is leveraging mobile robots for sortation. Under an offering it calls Tompkins Robotics, Tompkins has partnered with a robotics company to devise a unit and parcel sortation system called t-Sort that carries out the same functions as a tilt tray sorter on a fixed track, but with no track and using less space, says…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 37.02
June 03, 2016
…has announced a majority holding in the Kamen-based, German gantry robot specialist RO-BER Industrieroboter GmbH. Elmar Issing, vice president of robotics and innovations at SSI Schaefer, said, “high-performance robotic applications are now a key factor in integrated automation solutions in intralogistics. Our involvement with RO-BER increases the range of solutions for our customers in another key future technology and completes the product portfolio in robotics with intelligent control technology.” As an independent developer and manufacturer of gantry robot systems for picking and sequencing, as well as for storing, buffering and linking, RO-BER has already been a reliable project partner to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.91
April 04, 2016
…(Booth 4347), a manufacturer and integrator of turnkey robotic gantry-based order fulfillment and tire handling solutions, announced the opening of its new U.S.-based office, Cimcorp USA, in Norcross, Georgia. Located in a business and technology park and incorporated in February, Cimcorp will open its U.S. office during the second quarter of 2016. The location will provide Cimcorp’s sales and service team with a local home base in the Southeast market, which has a large projected growth for intralogistics, warehouse automation and manufacturing. Cimcorp is looking to expand its sales and service activities to its customers in its target markets, including…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.91
March 01, 2016
…produced a number of vehicles that are equipped with gantry-type robots (versus fixed-degree-of-freedom robots). One large manufacturer, for example, is using the machines to grip spools and then pull up to 36 of those spools onto an automatic guided vehicle (AGV). The AGV can then move to another area of the warehouse or plant to offload the items. “This is just one example of how we’re already seeing robotic arms integrated with vehicles,” says Longacre, “and being used to manage stationary/repetitive tasks.” Don Heelis, sales manager at Cimcorp, is also bullish on the robot’s ability to break through the barriers…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 32.18
September 30, 2011
RMT Robotics, a Cimcorp Oy Company, is aDoug Pickard and Markuu Vesa global company that manufactures and integrates turnkey robotic gantry-based order fulfillment and tire handling solutions designed to reduce operating costs and streamline operations. To extend the flexibility of robotics beyond a fixed workspace, RMT Robotics also manufacturers and integrates ADAM™, the category-defining intelligent mobile robot. The ADAM system redefines the purpose and function of industrial AGVs by performing intelligent robotic transport of materials in complex, random origin to random destination industrial environments.
