Posted: April 10th, 2015

Warehouse Automation: Material Handling Robots

Warehouse Automation: Material Handling Robots

A robot is an electro-mechanical machine with a wide range of potential capabilities depending upon the programming and/or intelligence built into the device. Robots can be programmed to perform a variety of tasks. The use of robots has grown more pervasive in warehousing as an increasing number of tasks are able to be performed efficiency and effectively by these devices. Material handling robots have increased profitability, cost effectiveness, and quality in warehousing automation. They have vision to precisely handle parts and place them in the right positions which leads to better quality and efficiency. Robots have mobility which means they can cover a long range in warehousing and move quicker to find parts and put them together. Lincoln has a great example of how efficient their robots were and when trying to make decision between offshoring or staying onshore, “Further analysis revealed other benefits with robotic automation: one minute and 23 seconds of weld time was reduced to only 61 seconds with significantly higher quality and improved process control. The cost, quality and lead-time benefits convinced Lincoln Electric’s customer. The final decision: Invest in rolxrtics automation and keep the manufacturing process in the U.S” (Teresko). A robot can palletize faster and without the chance of injury, whether the conditions having to be in sweltering heat, moving products from a truck to the warehouse or stacking heavy pieces that are hard to reach. Robotics can pair with additional automation technologies. For example, “a customer used a pallet dispenser to automatically supply pallets, while a short conveyor transported finished pallets from the robot to an automatic stretch wrapper. This eliminated several steps previously handled by forklifts” (Bond). Material Handling robots have put a great emphasis on driving efficiency in warehousing and operations. The efficiency robotics provides are critically important to drive optimal operational and financial performance.
This is the Outline. This is the topics I want to talk about in the paper. Thank you.
•    Robotics- Three elements working in unison: the robot, its end-of-arm tooling, and software
•     Software is getting better helping to expand the use of robots
•    Evolution of robots- use of cameras to move from rigid to agile tasks
•     Robots performing more warehouse tasks
•    Robots as a business strategy
•     Why will they gain in popularity
“Think of industrial robots as a business strategy tool, one that helps build manufacturing competitiveness in a global economy,” says Rick Schneider, president and CEO, Fanuc Robotics America Inc.
•    How have robotics helped keep manufacturing from offshoring
•     Advantages to on-shoring/domestic production
•    International regulations
•    Quality control
•    Transoceanic shipping challenges
•    JIT inventory
•    Future of robots in manufacturing
•    Conclusion
•    Future of robotics in warehousing
•    Why is it logical to believe the trend will continue to use more robots in warehousing

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