LOCUS WAREHOUSE ROBOTICS
Implement Innovative AMR Technology for Total Warehouse Optimization
At V&H Material Handling, we offer our customers Locus Robotics to implement into their warehouse operations. Locus Robotics manufactures autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment warehouses. The acquisition broadens the Locus product line of proven and powerful AMR solutions that address use cases from eCommerce, case-picking, and pallet-picking to scenarios requiring larger, heavier payloads and fulfillment modalities.
Benefits of Warehouse Robotics
Flexible – Bots can be easily moved and tested across multiple sites to meet new demand
Customizable – Bots easily and autonomously switch between all types of picking approaches, including batch and discrete order picking
Versatile – Bots can be outfitted and interchanged with any range of totes, containers, shipping boxes, and even coolers
Adaptable – No infrastructure changes are necessary to install this solution. It can also be easily adapted and reconfigured as your processes change
Profitable – Complete work and track metrics and report insights that grow the operation
Key Features for Locus AMRs
- Wide range of container sizes and types are chosen based on each order (soft, small, hazards, oversized, etc.)
- Integrated task interleaving for seamless shelf replenishment and restock
- Onboard scanner ensures a highly accurate process, reducing returns and exchanges
- Safe in human-centric environments
- Highly intuitive interface drastically reduces training time for new associates
- Reduces reverse logistics costs
How Robotic Logistics Improve Your Current Warehouse Operations
To achieve maximum picking performance, Kardex Horizontal Carousels are usually arranged in stations. Depending on the installation size and conception, a number of different unit applications are possible:
Directed Picking
Directed Picking technology optimizes worker productivity by actively directing workers to their next pick location. Directed Picking removes unproductive roaming or patrolling of aisles. Workers are visually guided to their next closest pick opportunity, reducing lost time for repetitive, workflow decision-making and eliminating unproductive walk time.
Putaway Functionality
Ideal for handling labor-intensive returns and restocking through true task interleaving. LocusBots take the disparate return items back into the warehouse, eliminating extra restocking labor time to dramatically increase worker efficiency.
P2P Transport
Locus warehouse robots can easily move your products and inventory, saving unproductive worker walking time without the cost for expensive and inflexible infrastructures found in bolted-down conveyor systems. Locus Transport frees your associates for more valuable roles, eliminating the unproductive and wasteful walking time.
Mezzanine Management
AMRs make multi-level mezzanine management easy and efficient. Our advanced optimization engine intelligently orchestrates in-level task/pick clustering and directed pick-and-pass across multiple levels and mezzanines. It actively directs LocusBots and workers to follow the most efficient order-picking sequences for optimal productivity.
Deployment
Locus integrates seamlessly with your existing warehouse infrastructure, quickly configuring the way your organization already works. It seamlessly matches your workflow, routines, and processes. It’s so effective, you’ll see a 2x to 3x increase in productivity and throughput, giving you a quantifiable ROI in less than 12 months.
See How AMRs Work to Optimize Your Warehouse
A Variety of Industries Use Locus for their Robotic Logistics
When demand shifts unexpectedly and quickly, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are adapting faster to accommodate those changes and keep productivity at profitable levels. 3PLs that have implemented robots into facilities during operations are now expanding to build brand new sites that design the floor to maximize the use of robots for order fulfillment.
The sudden shift from in-store to online shopping as a result of COVID-19 has caused e-commerce order volume to grow at historic levels. This has greatly accelerated existing omni-channel retail trends, such as BOPIS (buy online, pick up in store), curbside-pickup, and home delivery. To meet these new challenges, pure-play e-commerce retailers as well as brick-and-mortar retailers are adding automation to keep up with huge demand and the limited labor availability.
At the beginning of 2020, supply chain for Healthcare and Med Device organizations experienced a tremendous strain from drastic demand fluctuations, leading to an unforeseen disruption in the workforce. As elective surgeries started to resume by Mid 2020, companies struggled with business continuity because the labor market couldn’t keep up. With yet another wave being anticipated by analysts, healthcare organizations need to make sure their supply chain ecosystem is robust enough to handle the changes.
Locus RaaS program lets you scale as your needs change. Up or down.
Locus Robots as a Service (RaaS) is the smart, innovative, subscription-based program that makes it easy to add powerful autonomous mobile robotics to your warehouse operation.
Locus RaaS lets you shift capital expenses for automation to operational or labor expenses. The minimal initial investment means a simpler budget approval process and dramatically shortens your time to ROI from years to months.
The Locus RaaS program reduces the typical operational costs and technology barriers usually associated with conventional, capital-intensive automation solutions that often can take years to deploy. You’ll always have the latest software updates and hardware.
Locus’s intelligent automation increases worker productivity, reduces overtime costs, and seamlessly scales as your business grows. See AMRs can work in your facility to improve your daily operations. Give us a call or request a quote today!