ABB Robot Solutions Help Logistics Technology Enter a New Stage

With the comprehensive promotion of "intelligent manufacturing" and the rapid development of e-commerce, the technological revolution triggered by robots is rapidly developing in the field of warehousing and logistics. At the 2018 CeMAT ASIA exhibition, intelligent logistics robots became the focus of attention. As the world's leading supplier of industrial robots, ABB Robot demonstrated two sets of automated intelligent flexible logistics solutions at the exhibition site. It is dedicated to bringing logistics technology into a new stage. It can also help e-commerce and express delivery enterprises better cope with the huge logistics demand brought about by "Shuang11" and attract numerous audiences to stop for it.

Dismantling and palletizing solutions bring logistics distribution and order processing into a new stage

According to on-site sales personnel, in the "6.18" and "Shuang11" peak periods, the number of goods in the enterprise's logistics distribution and processing centers usually soars to several times the normal number, prompting the processing capacity to be improved. At the same time, traditional solutions lack flexibility to deal with mixed inventory units (SKUs), and usually require a lot of space to avoid potential safety and health hazards.

ABB robot palletizing and disassembling solutions can effectively deal with mixed inventory units, improve production efficiency, efficient use of space, more ergonomically, and ensure safety.

EFulfillment bin intelligent picking workstation

EFulfillment bin intelligent picking workstation, IRB1200 robot integrated with 3D vision system, automatically picking according to warehouse control system commands. This is a wave picking process, a wave may include multiple orders, each order contains a different number of goods. In one wave, the system will add up these orders and accumulate them. Combining with the flexible fixture customized by ABB, the system will select the goods in the turnover box according to the quantity required by the order, and place the picked goods on the conveyor belt of the next process.

It is reported that before using this automated solution, the picking operation is carried out by people, picking one or more orders. For the case of less order number, there will be obvious shortcomings of low picking density, which will lead to inefficient picking and inevitable errors of manual picking. This solution fully realizes the automation operation, saves the labor, and effectively avoids the picking error rate, at the same time, the efficiency of unit area (processing orders per square meter per day) is more than doubled.