Robotic programs producer, NūMove Robotics & Vision, and provide chain providers and automation integrator, KPI Solutions, have joined forces to create an modern robotic idea that optimizes order preparation for fast-moving SKUs within the beer and beverage trade.
Known as “RAPTOR”, this high-throughput, dual-robot system tackles the rising demand for effectivity and suppleness in trendy warehouse operations whereas addressing the challenges of blended palletizing.
Requiring solely roughly 2,500 sq. ft (230 sq. meters) of area, this vision-guided system simplifies order preparation by depalletizing merchandise into SKU-specific buffer lanes after which repalletizing them into retail-ready mixed-SKU order pallets.
RAPTOR handles a number of product sorts and codecs, together with closed instances, wrapped merchandise in trays or with backside pads, cartons in trays, and returnable shells. It additionally helps varied donor and order pallet codecs, making it a flexible resolution for high-volume distribution environments.
Robert Battaglia, director of gross sales and enterprise improvement at NūMove, says: “By separating the depalletizing and palletizing features and including a short lived buffer, this resolution gives a flexible and absolutely automated resolution to arrange order pallets that can maximize the uptime, subsequently the throughput.”
“We discover that beverage distributors of all sizes can justify this automation. Firms acknowledge RAPTOR’s potential to flex and scale, whereas growing productiveness and employee security.”
– Roger Counihan, Chief Business Officer at KPI Options
A number of beverage wholesalers are at the moment putting in RAPTOR programs in distribution facilities throughout the USA, marking a big step towards reworking order preparation workflows within the beverage trade.
