Brightpick, a supplier of AI-powered warehouse automation, is considerably increasing its partnership with Dr. Max Group, Europe’s largest pharmacy chain.
Following profitable operations and progressive scaling at Dr. Max’s Prague distribution heart, Brightpick will deploy a further 44 Autopicker autonomous cell robots throughout different services within the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The entire variety of deployed robots working throughout the group will thus attain 74 items.
The collaboration kicked off in late 2023 with an preliminary deployment of 9 Autopicker robots on the Prague warehouse of Viapharma – Dr. Max’s sister firm answerable for pharmacy and hospital logistics. Pushed by excellent operational outcomes, the Prague fleet step by step expanded to its present 30 Autopicker robots.
Thanks to totally autonomous choosing, the warehouse can course of as much as 20,000 gadgets each day with minimal want for human intervention. This enabled a 95 p.c discount in handbook choosing labor, a 40 p.c improve in warehouse capability, and the sensible elimination of choosing errors.
Constructing on this success, two new tasks within the Czech Republic and Slovakia shall be accomplished within the second half of this 12 months:
- Viapharma Ostrava: 22 Autopicker robots will automate the method of inventory replenishment and medication choosing for pharmacies and hospitals in an similar setup to Prague.
- Dr. Max Bratislava: 22 Autopicker robots will tackle a key position in processing and choosing quickly rising volumes of on-line orders.
Jan Zizka, co-founder and CEO of Brightpick, says: “Increasing our partnership with Dr. Max Group throughout three main distribution facilities is an amazing validation for us of the reliability and added worth of our expertise.
“Pharmaceutical logistics calls for uncompromising accuracy, velocity, and strict adherence to requirements. Our resolution can successfully deal with high-volume replenishment for hospitals and pharmacies in addition to a dynamic e-commerce setting with excessive calls for on dispatch velocity.”
Rudolf Zurek, logistics director at Viapharma, says: “Deploying Brightpick expertise enabled us to basically improve choosing accuracy and optimize warehouse processes. In consequence, we have been capable of transfer human employees from bodily demanding choosing to extra expert actions, notably high quality management.
“The system’s scalability and the sleek capability enlargement in Prague have been key explanation why we determined to implement Autopicker robots in our different key hubs as effectively.”
Brightpick Autopicker is a multi-purpose autonomous cell manipulator geared up with patented Bodily AI expertise and superior 3D imaginative and prescient, which picks and consolidates orders straight in warehouse aisles.
The system is absolutely scalable with out requiring structural modifications to warehouse area and permits for versatile responses to seasonal peaks.
