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Vimaan: DockTRACK Pallet


Vimaan was founded to help companies solve the long-standing challenge of accurately monitoring, tracking and reporting on warehouse inventory.
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DockTRACK Pallet empowers warehouses to register shipping and receiving inventory more efficiently than conventional methods.

DockTRACK Pallet empowers warehouses to register shipping and receiving inventory more efficiently than conventional methods.

DockTRACK Pallet empowers warehouses to register shipping and receiving inventory more efficiently than conventional methods.

DockTRACK includes computer vision sensors mounted on MHE and gateways that capture all 5 pallet sides in real-time and deliver these capabilities:

  • Comprehensive Scanning and Interpretation - reads human readable text, 1D/2D barcodes including SSCC, GS1 and 128 anywhere on the pallet in <1 second.
  • Multi Case Label Reading and Association– counts cases, associates lables with cases, and highlights missing labels.
  • Dimensioning - measures dimensions of all 5 pallet sides delivering 3D composite views.
  • Damage Detection – identifies imperfections including rips and discolorations.
  • Digital Repository - scans are stored in easily accessed image archives.
  • WMS Reconciliation – data is compared and reconciled with the WMS, delivering a more accurate view of inventory.

These capabilities are enabled by machine learning powered computer vision tools and smart data capturing systems. This involves intelligently triggering sensors on-demand, processing data using universal deep learning and deep geometric models in real time – each of which is a Vimaan innovation. These innovations eliminate the need for handheld readers, data entry and physically photographing pallets. Most importantly, DockTRACK enables faster processing with higher quality results.

Busy warehouses and distribution centers experience significant dock door bottlenecks as associates process as many incoming and outgoing pallets as quickly as possible. These blockages generate put-away and order processing delays; additionally, the manually intensive work inevitably produces data errors at both ends of the warehouse. This labor-intensive task takes 3-5 minutes to process a single pallet, and when multiple trucks arrive with full trailers, warehouses need to staff full teams to inspect, scan and document all incoming pallets.

To address these expensive and time-intensive challenges, Vimaan has engineered and released DockTrack Pallet, to automate the pallet receiving process. DockTRACK Pallet has delivered many benefits to active warehouses:

  • Enhanced worker productivity and reduced labor requirements through automated processing.
  • Better MHE utilization through elimination of barcode scanning and faster pallet processing.
  • Reduced cost through elimination of barcode scanners.
  • Improved utilization of dock doors and receiving area space through faster unloading of containers.
  • More accurate and timely inventory updates.
  • Reduced time and expense of dispute resolution.
  • Better utilization of truck space through automated dimensioning.

Using Vimaan’s DockTrack Pallet, in many cases pallet processing times have been reduced by as much as 75%!

Key Product Features

  1. Computer Vision Sensors – suite of sensors mounted on “gates” at the dock door and on MHE, which automatically detect incoming pallets as they approach and pass-through dock doors. Sensors collect and transmit pallet label data and physical attributes of incoming inventory.
  2. Computer Vision Platform - DockTrack Pallet automates the process of receiving pallets. The forklift (or other MHE) driver picks up the pallet from an inbound container and drives in through the dock door (without stopping) DockTRACK automatically:
    • Identifies labels on all 5 sides
    • Identifies specific label(s) of interest and reads both barcodes and human readable text.
    • Dimensions the pallet and highlights any damages.

    The entire process is completed within 1-2 seconds.

  3. Data Analysis - DockTrack integrates with the customer’s WMS to:

    • Write information into the WMS.
    • Instruct the driver on put-away location through an MHE mounted display.
    • Compare pallet data against ASNs to automatically highlight discrepancies.

The process eliminates the need for barcode readers and improves worker productivity since stoppage is not needed. Data can be viewed in ViewDeck, Vimaan’s web application. ViewDeck allows easy search and retrieval of archived images and other data, which supports customer dispute.