Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.85
March 28, 2023
…Accutech. At the Honewell Intelligrated booth, one demonstration featured Honeywell’s Smart, Flexible Depalletizer, which uses an articulating arm plus vision and AI, working in concert with an autonomous lift from OTTO Motors. Keith Fisher, president of Honeywell Intelligrated, explained that this type of integrated offering is well-suited to brownfield DCs, where space constraints might make it challenging to install pallet conveyor runs into and out of a robotic depalletizer. Other vendors continued to integrate automated storage systems and shuttles with robotic piece picking. For instance, Vanderlande showed its GtP 2.0 workstation with a robotic piece-picking arm from RightHand Robotics. The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.62
May 22, 2019
…shortly after news of a DARPA-funded research project at Honeywell Aerospace on the use of Sigma Labs technology as available in PrintRite3D. The study (“LPBF [Laser Powder Bed Fusion] Right the First Time—the Right Mix Between Modeling and Experiments” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40192-019-00133-8) was published in the journal Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation. It describes the validation involved in manufacturing a challenging metal component. Sensors were used to develop a new in-process quality metric called thermal emission density (TED), used to monitor component quality with respect to porosity as the part was being built. The research paper concludes: “This work has demonstrated that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.35
March 04, 2020
…an Android based system, such as those offered by Honeywell. These devices can be just as durable, and will benefit from an increase in speed and functionality. The Android operating system will also be more familiar to younger employees - and with the help of an IT firms, it shouldn’t require substantive changes to your warehouse management system. Employee training Many warehouse and logistics businesses offer some sort of training to employees to help them carry out their roles, often in the realm of health and safety. However, by going above and beyond to offer additional skills training, you can…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.13
June 04, 2023
…Aircraft manufacturers with an interest in AI include Boeing, Honeywell Aerospace, and Lockheed Martin. Edge computing: Cloud and edge computing technology can handle and analyze data from UAVs in real time, allowing for faster decision-making and more efficient operations. Frontrunners using edge computing include Intel, Thales Group, and GE Aviation. Computer vision: Machine vision enables autonomous drones to observe and interpret their surroundings, allowing them to navigate complicated landscapes and avoid obstacles. Vendors such as Rockwell Collins and General Electric are using computer vision to enhance the accuracy of their products. Swarm technology: This technology has the potential to enable…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.65
November 03, 2022
…the manual tasks of loading and unloading. Boston Dynamics, Honeywell, and others have been trying to solve this big problem, but their solutions are not yet used at scale by industry. iTLS has gotten ahead. The space still needs maturation, but we've had a massive pull from our clients. Returns processing is another challenge for retail and e-commerce—how does GreyOrange help with that? Kohli: Usually, returns typically don't get merged back with the main inventory. A retailer may sell 10 shirts and get five back, but they go to different places [in the facility]. Then it gets new orders, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.47
March 01, 2016
…these spaces,” explains Earl Wohlrab, robotics integration manager at Honeywell Intelligrated. “These fixed paths had to be clear in order for mobile robots to be able to do their jobs.” Creating those paths isn’t easy in a warehouse or DC, where the physical environment is constantly changing, says Wohlrab. Complicating the issue even further is the need for guidance systems that relied on magnets and/or magnetic tape or localized global positioning systems (GPS). Innovations like simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)—or, building a localized map while at the same time localizing the robot within that map—are allowing mobile robots to “become…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.43
February 14, 2023
…demonstrations,” said Thomas Evans, robotics chief technology officer at Honeywell. “It's about building confidence on the customer side and proving adoption at scale.” However, “customers should have some skin in the game,” noted Caja's Barkay. “I prefer a hybrid model, or it's too easy to just move choke points in the process.” At its Manifest booth, DHL Supply Chain showed real robots, as well as Lego models of an autonomous fork truck, Boston Dynamics' Stretch, and a Locus Robotics LocusBot. Credit: Eugene Demaitre Flexibility and scalability are 3PL mantra “We evaluate different robots by where they add value, automating repeatable…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.30
June 24, 2023
…Now we have haptic sensors and companies like FANUC, Honeywell, Omron, and Yaskawa rolling out robotics. And there's more autonomous technology coupled with 5G, whose low latency can help supply chains. It's like working from home—a tech-based shift in the economy. Our robotics and AI index is tracked by the largest ETFs in the world. Global X funds has an ETF launched with clients in Australia, Europe, and Japan. People are realizing it's a big deal. Deloitte expects the value of the whole segment to have a CAGR [compound annual growth rate] of 17.5% over the next five years—that's more…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.69
May 17, 2018
…system solution providers, including Swisslog, Toyota Material Handling, Dematic, Honeywell Intelligrated and Knapp Logistics Automation. (You can read “Materials Handling Innovation (And Why It Matters)”). This year, on the heels of Modex, we thought we’d revisit the topic. But instead of focusing on the household names in automation, we asked six companies playing in the software or technology space, including several startups and smaller players, just what innovation means to their organizations. Here’s what we learned. From linear to exponential innovation If you’ve ever seen any of the Farmers Insurance commercials, you know the punch line: “We know a thing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.60
March 26, 2021
…says Suzanne McGough, WES product manager at automation provider Honeywell Intelligrated. McGough says: “Our customers are looking at new avenues into advanced automation, which makes WES critical in utilizing those technologies, whether its robotics, other new systems and how to integrate new automation with what they already have.” Since WES is always cognizant of the progress of work in different zones, a key function is bottleneck avoidance, says McGough. In DCs with human pickers, AMRs, and some lift trucks traveling the floor, a WES also devises routes and tasks to avoid congestion. “With warehouse execution’s waveless mentality, it’s continuously releasing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.47
February 05, 2019
…consistent accuracy and high throughput to meet customer demands. Honeywell Intelligrated Booth: S618 New shuttle, warehouse control system Flexible, scalable and fast, the new OSR Shuttle Evo+ maximizes space utilization and energy savings by merging and managing reserve storage and forward picking as a single dynamic ecosystem. Functionally, it combines a high-performance shuttle system with the agility of an autonomous, flexible path transport system—centrally storing goods, raw materials, overstock and buffered orders in a high-density space. Upon retrieval, items are sequenced and quickly delivered where and when needed with a fleet of Open Shuttle automated mobile robots. Also on display,…
