Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.40
July 10, 2019
…robotics vendor Canvas Technology. Among the major automation vendors, Honeywell Intelligrated announced a partnership with AMR provider Fetch Robotics last fall, while last year Dematic launched a Robotics Center of Excellence business unit. Another sign of AMR momentum: earlier this year, software provider Manhattan Associates launched Manhattan Automation Network, a partner program with robotics and automation vendors to speed up deployments. The increasing difficulties that DC operators are having finding enough associates, combined with the rapid maturity of sensor and guidance technology, are driving a strong market, vendors agree. “The huge driver for us is the labor challenge operations are…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.06
July 05, 2022
…explained Laura Bickle, senior offering manager for WES at Honeywell Intelligrated, a major provider of warehouse automation and related software. “The WCS system is focused on product throughput, but not optimizing the process end to end like a WES can,” Bickle said. “By utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning, WES enables the customer to make real-time, last-minute decisions based on system status to avoid congestion and maximize throughput.” WES essential for orchestration Over the years, vendors with WCS have enhanced their software with more capabilities around functions like order release logic and load balancing to come up with what is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.06
March 12, 2020
…like the work execution systems emerging from companies like Honeywell, Zebra, Lucas and Softeon. Piece picking status quo While something resembling a warehouse execution system is taking shape in the autonomous mobile robot world, piece picking robots have more in common with a stationary associate at a goods-to-person workstation than an AMR. In goods-to-robot picking, like goods-to-person picking, the robotic arm is stationary, which means it doesn’t have to determine the most efficient travel path to get the job done. What’s more, when it’s picking items from a donor tote to an order tote, the robot just has to get…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.80
May 20, 2019
…of the order fulfillment process. Meanwhile, in October 2018, Honeywell announced a strategic collaboration with Fetch Robotics to fulfill growing volumes of e-commerce orders. Box packaging automation and robots have been mainly used at the end of manufacturing assembly lines but are still in nascent stages when it comes to automation in warehouse and fulfillment centers. Collaborative Robots (Cobots) have enabled a step change in pick productivity and help warehouses scale in peak seasons without the need to add a proportionate number of warehouse workers. XPO Logistics and Geodis have started using Cobots at several locations to mimic zone picking.…
