Addverb-Quadron

Carton Shuttle

Addverb-Quadron

Addverb-Quadron
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Addverb’s versatile carton shuttle, Quadron automates storage and retrieval of goods in cartons, crates, and totes up to 30 kg. The shuttle-based storage system equipped with vertical lifts and specialised racking enables high throughput and storage density. Quadron allows double deep storage thereby enabling you to store, buffer, and sequence the inventory to increase the productivity of your warehousing operations.

Carton Shuttle is a versatile automated storage and retrieval system for cartons, crates, and totes. This innovative shuttle-based storage solution, equipped with vertical lifts and specialised racking, enables efficient high-throughput operations. By allowing double-deep storage, it enhances productivity and maximises storage density in your distribution centre by effortlessly storing, buffering, and sequencing inventory.

Enhancing warehouse efficiency with our shuttle-based automated storage and retrieval system. With its advanced technology and intelligent design, the Carton Shuttle maximises space utilisation, accelerates order fulfilment, and enhances inventory management, delivering streamlined and optimised warehouse operations.

Quadron

Designed to transport goods from one point to another quickly and efficiently, allowing for greater productivity and streamlined processes. Carton shuttles can help to organize products in the warehouse, making it easier for workers to locate and retrieve items as needed.

  • Max Payload: 50 kg
  • Space Utilization: 36 Totes/sq. m
  • Speed: 4 m/s
  • Throughput: 115 Totes/hour (for 30 m track)

Storage Optimization

 

Quadron can help optimise storage space by organising goods in a compact and efficient manner. They can be used to stack and store cartons in high-density storage systems.

Order Picking

 

Quadron can be used to facilitate the order picking process by bringing goods to the pick stations. This can help to reduce the time and effort required for order picking and increase productivity.

Sequencing

 

Quadron can be used for sequencing by transporting and organising products in a specific order. This can be done by programming the shuttle system to follow a particular sequence for storing or retrieving products.

Addverb-Veloce

Multi-Carton Picking Mobile Robot

Addverb-Veloce

Addverb-veloce
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Veloce is a guided robot that enables multi-level storage and retrieval of cartons, crates and cases without additional storage infrastructure. The robot fleet operates on a grid-based navigation path, working together to store and pick case and carton loads.

A Multi-Carton Picking Robot is a game-changer fulfilment robot with industry-leading picking capabilities. It operates by bringing the required cartons or totes directly to the order picker, eliminating the need for manual searching and travelling within the warehouse.

Reducing labour costs and enhancing overall picking accuracy and speed to streamline order fulfilment in warehouses with our innovative picking mobile robot. Their goods-to-person approach brings the required cartons or totes directly to the order picker, eliminating the need for manual searching and travelling within the warehouse.

Veloce

A fleet of Veloce navigates through grid-based paths to the pre-decided locations for storing and picking carton loads, and work in perfect sync with one another.

  • Payload: 240 kg
  • Charging Time: Up to 15 minutes
  • Max. Speed: 1.5 m/s
  • Run Time: Up to 3 hours

Picking

 

Veloce can aid Goods-to-Person picking of cartons and totes, reducing the overall picking time required to enable faster fulfilment

Storage

 

The robot can efficiently and accurately store cartons and totes in a warehouse in its designated location

Reverse Logistics

 

Veloce enables the storage of returned goods by storing the carton or tote in its designated location.

Addverb-Zippy

Robotics Sorter

Addverb-Zippy

Addverb-Zippy
Pick to Light Solutions

Zippy, Addverb’s high-speed robotic sorter, works on the concept of obstacle detection and avoidance, using grid-based ground markers, to perform SKU wise intelligent sortation at very high speeds. The flexible system can match surge in demands and optimise operations to be cost-efficient.

Robotic Sorters are AI-enabled robots that perform intelligent sortation using obstacle detection and avoidance system. These robots utilise advanced algorithms and sensors to accurately identify and transfer items to their designated locations, optimising overall warehouse operations.

Minimising manual labour and increasing operational speed with our Robotic Sorter. The system’s flexibility allows for easy integration and removal of robots and sorting destinations, effectively addressing demand fluctuations with accuracy and speed, ultimately enhancing overall efficiency.

Zippy 6

 

Our ultra-fast moving Sorting Robot, with a payload capacity of 6 kg, performs 100% accurate SKU level sortation up to 30,000 sorts/hour.

  • Payload: 6 kg
  • Charging Time: Up to 20 minutes
  • Max. Speed: 1.5 m/s
  • Run Time: Up to 4 hours

 

Sortation

 

Zippy can help optimise the efficiency of a warehouse by reducing manual labour, increasing accuracy, and improving the speed of order fulfilment

Reverse Logistics

 

Zippy can help automate the sorting and routing of returned items, making the reverse logistics process more efficient, reducing costs, and improving the customer experience.

Material Movement

 

Zippy can follow specific paths and perform specific tasks automatically, without the need for human intervention. This can reduce the time and effort required for material movement, resulting in increased efficiency.

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Pick Cell Solutions

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Pick Cell Solutions

 

Pick Cell Solutions

Pick-to-light is a proven order-fulfillment technology that has continued to evolve to meet changing needs within distribution centers. It has created a small-footprint pick-to-light system – called a micro pick cell – that is implemented with minimal infrastructure and orchestrated by a tablet computer. A typical micro pick cell might employ perhaps 100 pick locations, each equipped with an adjacent light module to highlight the pick location and the pick quantity. Micro pick cells offer the speed and accuracy advantages of light-directed picking in a compact, cost-effective implementation. Multiple independent micro pick cells can be employed concurrently to achieve high fulfillment speeds.

Typical applications employ multiple pick cells with a single picker assigned to each pick cell. A conveyor transports shipping containers, such has a box or a bag, to the micro pick cells. As shipping containers arrive at the micro pick cells, workers retrieve them from the conveyor and scan a barcode on the container that corresponds to the customer order. Scanning the barcode causes lights within the cell to display the quantity of each SKU the order requires from the cell. The worker retrieves the required quantities of each needed SKU, as directed by the lighted displays, and places them into the container. Finally, the worker places the container back onto the conveyor which transports it to the shipping area.

Micro pick cells have proven especially useful in applications such as subscription box fulfilment where a huge number of orders must be fulfilled quickly, but the number of SKUs might only be only a few hundred. The concept is highly scalable since, at any given time, the number of micro pick cells employed can be increased or decreased to match the current workload. Variations on the micro pick cell concept are possible to meet the specific needs of particular applications.

System Overview

  • The picking area is divided into pick cells, and a picker is assigned to each pick cell.
  • All product locations must employ lights to highlight pick locations and display pick quantities.
  • Picking within a pick cell is typically limited to one order at a time.
  • Pick Cell systems work well when all products in an order are fast movers.
Pick Cell Solutions
Pick Cell Solutions

Features

 

  • Uses a light-sensitive proximity switch to confirm picks rather than a mechanical button
  • Optionally supports displays of text and graphics on a monitor within each pick cell

Benefits

 

  • Provides efficient, scalable order-fulfillment strategies for applications such as subscription box fulfillment
  • Easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to maintain
  • Pickers can become highly productive with minimal training
  • Well suited for:
    • Emerging micro-fulfillment centers
    • Kitting and sequencing of parts required for high-speed manufacturing assembly lines

Dynamic Slotting

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Dynamic Slotting

Dynamic Slotting

 

Dynamic Slotting

Dynamic Slotting is a technique available in some Warehouse Management Systems in which a forward pick location is created dynamically, rather than being dedicated to a single SKU.

This capability is needed in two primary situations: The first is when there aren’t enough pick locations to handle all SKUs a DC carries, so some groups of locations for forward-case and/or piece-picking are left empty, awaiting temporary assignment of SKUs, based on demand for some period, such as a wave or a shift.

 

When the WMS sees there is no assigned location for a SKU in a wave or order pool, it will assign those SKUs to empty locations and create tasks to move the inventory to each location needed to meet the demand.

From there, it’s like a normal pick from a slotted location – the one difference is that when the picks are complete and the location is now empty again, it is freed from the temporary SKU assignment and is available for another dynamic slotting process. If any inventory remains in the location after the picking demand is met, the WMS will direct that inventory to be put back into reserve storage.

The second scenario for use of dynamic slotting is when demand for a SKU in a wave or general order pool far exceeds the storage capacity of the forward pick location for that SKU. This could mean many replenishments would be needed to meet all that demand.

That volume spike for a SKU can happen based just on the natural variation in demand, or be the result of promotional activity. A WMS capable of supporting dynamic slotting should have parameters that control under what conditions – for example, the percent of demand above a slot’s capacity – dynamic slotting is triggered.

 

Here again, we need some empty slots – in some cases, these may be simply identified locations on the floor near the active pick area. For example, a company might drop a full pallet of cases for piece picking on the floor or in a pallet position, rather than try to pick eaches for a suddenly high demand SKU out of carton flow rack, due to the replenishment requirements.

This becomes a temporary, secondary location. The WMS should then direct pickers to the secondary location – replenished itself as needed – until demand is consumed.

As in the first cases, when the work is done, the dynamic slot it freed to be used dynamically by another SKU, and any remaining inventory will be re-stored in reserve.

Dynamic slotting is an advanced WMS capability – and requires some expertise to get it right.

A WMS that gives you flexible dynamic slotting capabilities can reduce picking and replenishment costs substantially – not everyone needs it, but many companies that could benefit from dynamic slotting do not do so because their system won’t support it.

Dynamic Slotting
Dynamic Slotting

Intellipack Shipping Cost Optimization

Intellipack Shipping Cost Optimization

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Intellipack Shipping Cost Optimization

Intellipack Shipping Cost Optimization

 

Intellpack Shipping Cost Optimization

Packing Optimization software for cartonization helps shippers select the right box or pallet for every order. Maximize efficiency with every carton shipped, by utilizing packaging optimization.

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Select the right box/carton for packing every order

Chances are, you’re packing orders in the wrong container and as a result, inaccurately rating shipments. Packing optimization, aka Smart Packing™, powered by a proprietary bin-packing algorithm, selects each carton/box or pallet based on the containers you keep on hand in each DC.

Directly reduce shipping costs with cartonization software

 

Dimensional weight charges are real and substantial. 24 million truckloads are shipped annually in the United States as a result of shipping boxes that are too big. That’s 1.75 billion gallons of wasted diesel and 17 billion kilograms of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere. And these costs hit your shipping bill.

Carton and pallet optimization across multiple carriers and modes (parcel and LTL)

 

Sending large or multi-piece parcels using a freight carrier can often save hundreds. Smart Packing™ optimizes across multiple modes, building each box and assembling those boxes into pallets for larger volume LTL shipments. It indicates when palletizing boxes and shipping with a common carrier (LTL) or breaking apart into cartons is the best move.

Intellipack Shipping Cost Optimization
Intellipack Shipping Cost Optimization
Intellipack Shipping Cost Optimization