Iron Mountain has expanded its use of Dexory’s warehouse robotics expertise, turning into the primary buyer to deploy the corporate’s new era of autonomous inventory-scanning robots, which may attain racks as much as 18 meters excessive.
The deployment builds on a partnership between the 2 firms that started in 2024, when Iron Mountain launched DexoryView at 4 of its UK warehousing and logistics websites.
Iron Mountain is greatest identified for storing and managing enterprise information and different delicate info, though the corporate has expanded into a wider vary of providers, together with warehousing and logistics, digital info administration, asset lifecycle administration and information facilities.
The Dexory deployment relates particularly to Iron Mountain’s warehousing and logistics operations reasonably than its information heart enterprise.
Dexory’s autonomous cell robots journey by means of warehouse aisles and scan storage places whereas regular operations proceed.
Data collected by the robots is fed into DexoryView, the corporate’s digital twin and warehouse intelligence platform, enabling stock to be in contrast with warehouse administration system information.
Iron Mountain says its newest Dexory robots can scan 16,100 warehouse places per hour and attain storage racks as much as 18 meters, in contrast with 12 meters for the earlier era.
Based on Iron Mountain, use of the expertise has elevated stock accuracy from 97.8 % to 99.9 % and lowered stock-related errors by 27.35 %.
The brand new robots also can seize info from extra difficult storage configurations, together with double-deep racking, block storage and areas with out typical racks.
Maria Torrent-March, vp of warehousing and logistics for Europe at Iron Mountain, says: “Dexory’s expertise permits our imaginative and prescient for automation and effectivity.
“We’re significantly excited to be the primary to deploy the next-generation robotic, reinforcing our place as a customer-centric and innovation-led organisation.”
Iron Mountain entered the third-party logistics market in 2021, including warehousing and logistics to a enterprise traditionally related to safe bodily information storage.
Dexory and Iron Mountain initially introduced their collaboration in February 2024, with DexoryView deployed at warehouses at Kettering Symmetry Park, Lutterworth Magna Park North and Rugby Symmetry Park.
Dexory says its autonomous robots repeatedly measure, rely and observe stock, offering warehouse operators with a real-time digital illustration of inventory and storage places.
