With many online and offline channels of sales available, and various services offered like same-day-delivery or store pick-up, customer preferences have evolved.
This has forced companies to improve efficiency and reduce the order-to-delivery time.
The sheer volume and mix of orders mean that warehouses across the world are under increasing pressure to deliver in the shortest possible time.
Traditional rigid warehouse automation fail to deliver and flexible automation is the only viable solution for warehouses to gain a competitive advantage.
The autonomous mobile robots from GreyOrange are excellent examples of goods-to-man automation.
The GreyOrange Butler is an advanced autonomous mobile robot that uses robotic goods-to-person technology for automated put-away, inventory storage, replenishment and order picking in fulfillment and distribution centers.
This goods-to-man automation system with robots in warehouse, adapts seamlessly to changing inventory profiles, demand patterns and peaks. Modular system architecture ensures bi-directional scalability to increase storage volume or fulfillment throughput independently, by adding more storage racks or robots, as needed.
The Butler system consists of Butler Robots (Autonomous mobile robots), Pick/Put stations, Mobile Storage Units (MSU), Auto-Charging stations, and GreyMatter, an end-to-end intelligent order fulfillment software platform that controls and manages various devices to drive autonomous collaboration.
