Pick and Place Robotics
Do you need more hands at the inbound, outbound, and order picking areas?
In association with Robomotive, Kardex offers smart pick and place robotics solutions that automatically pick, process, and place goods, 24 hours a day.
Customer needs
- Depalletization of heavy totes, bins, or cartons
- Filling of pallets and trolleys
- Support filling of loose loaded bins
- Order picking from “goods-to-person” stations
- Replenishing “goods-to-person” systems
Main activities of robotics
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Support picking
Pick randomly orientated and unknown objects from any original packaging with high speeds of up to 1200 picks/hour.
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Process products
Separate, orientate, measure, sort, scan, print, and generally transport products from A to B.
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Move products
Place items in different locations (e.g. trolleys, Euro pallets, bins, flow racks, or into a machine).
Support picking
Pick randomly orientated and unknown objects from any original packaging with high speeds of up to 1200 picks/hour.
Process products
Separate, orientate, measure, sort, scan, print, and generally transport products from A to B.
Move products
Place items in different locations (e.g. trolleys, Euro pallets, bins, flow racks, or into a machine).
Kardex robots
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Robomotive Item Picker
The Item Picker supports employees with their piece picking activities. By using integrated eye-hand coordination (3D Vision), the Item Picker is very flexible and accessible.
Characteristics
A basic pick functionality with integrated eye-hand coordination and, offered as an add-on to transfer any "goods to person" system into a "goods-to-robot" system. Based on Robomotive's 3D Vision software and nine years of experience with rapid image processing, it provides a safe, stable, and high performing integration with the robot and gripper functions.
- Combines with storage systems, sorter systems, packing lines, and more
- Industrial and high performance up to 1,200 picks/hour
- Multi-functional for random products and stacking patterns
- Ideal for piece picking and replenishment activities
- Communicates with WMS, WCS, and other systems
- Lifting capacity of up to 10 kg with a reach of 2 meters
Robomotive Case Picker
The Case Picker supports employees with its (full) case picking activities. By using integrated eye-hand coordination (3D Vision), the Case Picker is very flexible and accessible. It handles totes, bins, and cartons.
Characteristics
A basic pick functionality, with integrated eye-hand coordination and, offered as a mobile unit (plug & play). Based on Robomotive's 3D Vision software and nine years of experience with rapid image processing, it provides a safe, stable, and high performing integration with the robot and gripper functions.
- Industrial and high performance up to 800 picks/hour
- Multi-functional (for random case sizes and stacking patterns)
- Services pallets and cage trolleys (up to 2-meters high)
- Communicates with WMS, WCS, and other systems, but also a stand-alone operation is possible
- Lifting capacity of up to 50 kg
- Reach of 3 meters
Efficient handling of
- Different sized bins and totes measuring up to 600 x 500 x 400 mm and weighing up to 50kg
- Different sized cartons measuring up to 600 x 500 x400 mm and weighing up to 30 kg
- Additional boxes on request
Software
Software is at the heart of every smart robotics solution. Robomotive's unique, self-developed software connects all individual components. It is crucial to manage and control all of these areas such as 3D Vision, robot control, machine safety, and other integrated functionalities such as scanning, printing, applying, and measuring.
- Solutions feature either Beckhoff or Siemens PLC and safety controls
- A human-machine interface allows operators to access all control functions easily
- The software design is completely modular and therefore does not rely on a robot or camera brand. This allows it to rapidly adapt to the latest market technologies
3D Vision
Applying a high-quality 3D Vision camera (active stereo vision) is a must to achieve high-speed picking performance. In combination with Robomotive's image processing software, robots recognize and visually separate products very rapidly. This allows robots to pick and place both quickly and accurately.
Fields of application
Robotics might be a good option in many cases. Below please find two of them.
- Palletizing and de-palletizing of random cases (boxes, crates, totes) is a rapidly growing warehouse activity often performed by employees.
- With product diversity growing and measures to reduce CO2 emissions tightening, demands for dedicated shipping volumes continue to increase. This means case sizes are also becoming more and more diverse.
- Conventional (de)palletizing systems are not flexible enough to manage this change because they can only handle predefined product sizes and predefined stacking patterns. This causes a demand for flexible robotization to pop up.
- Robomotive's Case Picker including the robot, gripper, 3D Vision, and its control, offers flexibility and high performing (de)palletization.
- Piece picking is a rapidly growing warehouse activity that is often performed by employees.
- With products increasing in volume and diversity, as well as booming e-commerce order quantities, there is a significant need for flexible automated piece picking systems.
- Sorting batches of picked items, in many cases, is still a manual activity. It is a very complex combination of visual and physical activities involving separating products by sight and then picking and placing. All while aiming for high-speed production.
- Picking single pieces from storage systems and bringing them successfully to a source like a packing machine or sorting system shows identical complexity.
- Robomotive's Item Picker including the robot, gripper, 3D Vision, and full control, offers great flexibility and high-performing piece picking.
Benefits at a glance
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State-of-the-art pick and place robotics
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Increased performance / throughput by achieving up to 1,200 picks/hour
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Fewer picking errors
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Higher performance with the same amount of people leads to reduced operational costs
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24/7 availability
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Automated data-logging
State-of-the-art pick and place robotics
Increased performance / throughput by achieving up to 1,200 picks/hour
Fewer picking errors
Higher performance with the same amount of people leads to reduced operational costs
24/7 availability
Automated data-logging