Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.01
…material outside the logistics center, which meant coordinating the delivery of those materials to the logistics center with parts and materials stored on site. Other work areas were also challenged. Receiving, for instance, worked with an out-dated WMS. It wasn’t uncommon to receive new merchandise into the system only to get an order for that same material 10 minutes later because someone in the assembly area was waiting on it. To shore that up, Grob enhanced the standard functionality in SAP’s WMS to support crossdocking, sorting routines for picking orders and the display of pictures of the materials that had…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.14
…a cart in the cart staging area (2) for delivery to one of the assembly lines in the adjacent manufacturing area (3). Similarly, some items may be packaged and staged in the shipping area (4) for delivery to customers in need of spare parts. 2. Pallet-handling AS/RS: Product that is palletized on a Euro pallet receives a license plate bar code label and is delivered to the induction area (6) for the pallet-handling AS/RS (5). The remaining product can be palletized on a Euro pallet that is labeled for induction into the AS/RS (5). 3. Manual reserve storage: Items that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.54
…the ability to provide plug and play systems and pre-delivery testing of systems prior to installation at the customer’s site all reduces the implementation cost of automation.” “When considering the “total cost of ownership” or the life of the product they’re building and selling manufacturers should also consider that automating their systems domestically may be less expensive than incurring the high costs of poor quality and the rising costs of shipping products to and from off shore facilities,” said Mike Koziel vice president of sales for Eagle Technologies, a Michigan based automation systems provider. “We believe that in the long…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.01
…that each layer represents a different stop on a delivery route or to match store aisles, robotic palletizing systems are flexible, fast and accurate,” says Brian Keiger, general industry sales manager for Grenzebach Corp. “Further, robotic palletizers easily adapt and expand to match changing consumer demands.” Building custom, mixed pallet loads requires a delicate balance between a customer’s depalletizing needs and the stacking force limitations of each case. Previous options include building the load by hand, using a traditional system limited to handling one or two cases at a time, or employing multiple robotic units. Advances in the robotic palletizing…