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THREE STRATEGIES FOR IMMEDIATELY IMPROVING ORDER PICKING WITH ROBOTICS

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August 10, 2022

 



Together, shipping, receiving, and storage count for less than half of all
warehouse activity costs. The lion’ share of expenses – a whopping 55% - is
bound up in order picking. Breaking down the various activities associated with
order picking, Omron finds that over 60% of time is spent walking, with writing,
searching, and picking tasks comprising the other 40%.

Give this data, it’s safe to say that automating the “walking” portion of any
order picking operation will have a strong positive impact on overall warehouse
productivity. Omron’s Logistics Strategic Account Manager Yaqing Sun recently
discussed some strategies for using autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for this
purpose at Automate 2022 in June.,

Omron looks at a few methods for replacing unnecessary walking time with AMRs.

Strategy #1: Transporting items to employees (“Goods to person”)

By having an AMR autonomously move goods to a warehouse associate, you can
reduce the amount of time that associate spends walking, which in turn reduces
fatigue and generally improves work satisfaction. In addition, it
improves traceability by automating the QR code scanning process.

Some potential downsides of this method include high up-front investment costs,
a relatively long integration and/or installation time, and the likelihood of
infrastructure changes to the facility. Still, logistics facilities by and large
find that the productivity benefits heavily outweigh the initial costs of
deployment.

View more solutions for logistics and warehouse automation

Strategy #2: Transporting items between zones (“Person to goods”)

This strategy involves breaking up the warehouse into separate order picking
zones, each of which will have a dedicated employee. Since a single order might
involve picking from more than one zone, an autonomous mobile robot will move
between the zones, stopping whenever an employee needs to retrieve a particular
item.

Although each employee still must do some walking, having AMRs traverse the long
distances between zones cuts down on the walking by a significant amount. The
main downside of this method is that employees must still scan items manually,
so traceability isn’t fully automated.

Strategy #3: Transporting items to a robot (“Goods to robot”)

This method has the dual advantages of high accuracy and a low dependence on
labor availability (making it a good option for companies struggling to hire
personnel). Slight downsides include high investment costs and the possibility
of lower throughput relative to manual picking. (It does improve traceability,
however, for the same reason as Strategy #1.)

Nonetheless, collaborative robotic technology is advancing by leaps and bounds,
and solutions that connect an autonomous mobile robot with a cobot are going to
just get more and more efficient. Furthermore, both AMRs and cobots can work
around the clock with minimal downtime.

 

Interested in learning more about Omron’s AMR solutions? Check out their mobile
robot portfolio

 

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