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AMR & AGV: Clear Choice for Flexible Material Handling At The Warehouse

Why is Warehouse Robotic Automation Surging?

Robotics engineers have worked hard over the last few decades to integrate new technological developments, like artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), with automated robotics technology. Innovative companies that have warehouses in their supply chains love the results that effective automation can bring.

What Sort of Robots Could Work in Your Warehouse?

Automated Guided Vehicles

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and their smaller cousins, automated guided carts (AGCs), transport inventory around your warehouse. They normally follow magnetic stripes or a track laid out on your warehouse floor.

For AGVs that don’t follow a track, they possess additional safety scanners that allow them to be used with manual vehicles. They’re also loaded with a map of your warehouse and the locations of all inventory.

AGVs work nights and weekends at the same cost as operating during the day, which improves warehouse efficiency and cuts costs. AGVs only require 8 minutes to recharge, which means they spend very little time out of commission.

Because of the amazing productivity and cost-saving capabilities of AGVs, the new system paid for itself just one year after installation.

Autonomous Mobile Robots

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) are like AGVs in that they use sensor technology to deliver inventory around a warehouse. However, unlike AGVs, however they don’t require a set track or preset route between locations. AMRs understand their environment through the use of computers, onboard sensors and maps.

These small and nimble robots have the ability to identify the information on each package and sort it precisely. AMRs can move throughout the warehouse because they create their own routes based on the operation needed. They can reroute when necessary and avoid obstacles in their environment. These robots offer efficiency, accuracy and security during the sorting process.

AMR robots also help to cut down on redundant processes like sorting so that workers can take on more creative and collaborative roles. Humans are sometimes more prone to error when they find a task too boring. Today’s robots, on the other hand, deliver consistent accuracy regardless of how tedious a process is. As a result, warehouses enjoy a higher level of inventory accuracy.

Not only do AMRs help with the picking and sorting process, but they can also be used to conduct daily inventory cycle counts.

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MIWA Robotics - The World’s Leading Automated Guided Vehicle Manufacturers

MIWA Robotics is the world’s leading tech company specializing in logistics robot intelligent systems. With its partner-Mushiny AI, we have businesses in more than 20 developed countries and regions.  We have shipped over 3000 AGV/AMRs since establishment.  Our Goods-to-Person AGV/AMR solution was developed by our key founders of the company, most of whom are former Amazonians.  

AGV solutions are the way of the future when it comes to the supply line. Not only in storage, but also with management and distribution. Robotics have taken the world by storm and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) have become incredibly popular in the way we manage our warehouses.

6 Reasons to implement a warehouse AGV

1. Flexible loading options

AGVs can adapt to the size and makeup of your packages or parcels. They are highly customizable and updatable. This includes the weight they can withstand as well as size and configuration.

2. Cleaner and quieter

AGVs require less maintenance and produce less noise pollution. They are extremely clean and quiet. One of their most important features is that, since they can operate independently, you can program them to work in off-hours. This last feature gives you greater control over noise contamination and how it affects your workforce.

3. Easy to install

Like most of its family members, drones, robotic vacuum cleaners, and all those AI-supplemented tools, AGV warehouse systems are incredibly easy to install, configure, and modify. They are adaptable to any space and can be updated to meet new challenges and growth issues.

4. Sleek and more lean

You will no longer have to deal with conveyor belts that are static and partly cemented into space. AGVs give your warehouse an open design that you can take advantage of. Automated Guided Vehicles are programmed to return to their charging station when necessary, usually scheduled during downtime in operations. Their road, the highway they use during hours of operation, is cleared whenever you need it.

5. Lower staff cost

Your overhead, when it comes to training and retaining, suddenly decreases. You no longer need a huge workforce to manually pick and pack items or transport and sort them. AGVs are a great investment that pays dividends for years to come.

6. More efficient, safer

AGVs are robots – they are guided by smart technology and constantly update algorithms. Today’s automated guided vehicles have cameras, WiFi connectivity, collision sensor, laser-guided mechanism, and dozens of other tools that reduce the possibility of safety violations. They are human error-proof.

Why You Need AGVs

All warehouses can benefit from AGVs – either on a grand scale or on a much lower one. They help maintain your competitive edge and adapt rapidly to challenges. They are a one-time investment that gives your team greater leeway when it comes to the things they can do and the contracts they can take. We can also offer leasing options if it suits your operations better. MIWA Robotics partners with multiple AGV vendors to provide you units that meet your unique requirements. Contact us today to learn how AGVs might benefit your business.

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Why Use MIWA Robotics Warehousing AGV?

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs)

Automated guided vehicles help to transport materials, supplies, and inventory within warehouse facilities. AGVs are used in operations to replace manually-driven forklifts or pick carts. Some AGVs autonomously navigate warehouse facilities by following established routes that are marked by wires, magnetic strips, tracks, sensors embedded in the floor or other physical guides. Other AGVs utilize cameras, lidar, infrared and other advanced technology to navigate workspaces, identify obstacles and avoid collisions.

Benefits of robotic warehousing solutions

Fewer Errors

Automation in warehousing limits the risk of human error with programmable, repeatable solutions. MIWA ROBOTICS designs and manufactures warehouse robots for high-efficiency and high-accuracy to increase productivity.

Reduced Expenses

Many warehouse operations, such as picking and sortation, traditionally have significant labor requirements, demanding more workers to spend more time fulfilling orders. With the integration of warehouse automation, you will need fewer people to handle menial tasks, allowing you to allocate your employees to more complex tasks and reducing the need for an expansive workforce.

Better Customer Satisfaction

Warehouse automation allows you to operate on time and on budget, reducing delays and getting orders into the hands of your customers more quickly. With robotic warehouse solutions, you also gain the benefit of increased traceability, which gives customers a sense of control over their orders and allows you to keep a more accurate record of your inventory, as well.

Enhanced Warehouse Safety

Warehouse automation allows you to operate on time and on budget, reducing delays and getting orders into the hands of your customers more quickly. With robotic warehouse solutions, you also gain the benefit of increased traceability, which gives customers a sense of control over their orders and allows you to keep a more accurate record of your inventory, as well.

Advanced Efficiency and Productivity

Warehouses, especially those operating in the e-commerce industry, have witnessed a massive surge of growth and demand in recent years, increasing the need for innovative solutions. Using robotics in warehouse material handling operations can increase productivity by automating repetitive tasks and optimizing specific processes using warehouse robots and data input.

Enhanced Ability to Meet High Capacity Demands

High, continually-increasing demands, coupled with labor shortages, has put a lot of pressure on warehouses. Relying solely on manual labor can jeopardize productivity and result in injuries, delays, and errors. With fully-automated warehouse robots, you can optimize menial tasks and reduce the possibility of error, promoting more efficient fulfillment and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Space Efficient

Maximizing the use of space within a warehouse promotes efficiency, consistency, and optimizes resource utilization. Vertical integration can help warehouses save valuable floor space, especially with automated warehouse storage robots and retrieval processes.

Economic Environment Regulation

Ongoing labor shortages can be a detriment to operational effectiveness. Climate controlled warehouses are few and far between due to the astronomical costs associated with heating and cooling needs. Strategically using robots and cobots in warehouses can isolate areas that should or should not be temperature-controlled; areas in which only robots maneuver do not need air conditioning or heating, and keeping these areas separate can keep temperature regulation costs down while also providing a comfortable environment for your employees.

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MIWA Robotics Guide to Automatic Guided Vehicles: How and Where to Use AGV?

What are Automatic Guided Vehicles used for?

Automatic Guided Vehicles can be used for variety of tasks, and each category has its own application. Therefore, it is vital to understand your requirements and warehouse infrastructure before making a decision.

Materials Movement

Picking

Replenishment

Benefits of Automatic Guided Vehicles

Automatic guided vehicles are now significant driving forces behind the future success of warehouses, distribution and fulfillment centers. Other sectors are also beginning to experience the transformational benefits associated with automatic guided vehicles.

You can benefit in many ways with automatic guided vehicles and automation, such as:

The ability to scale up or reduce capacity to meet peaks and troughs in demand increases productivity.

Reduced repetitive tasks for workers and associated fatigue and injury.

Technology that can easily adapt to a constantly changing warehouse or distribution center.

Reduced hardware costs and maintenance fees for an excellent return on investment.

Workers that are able to focus on more complex tasks or dedicate their time to customer services.

Workflows and processes can become more efficient and productive.

Manual tasks that take up the majority of workers’ time, for example transporting and delivering material within the warehouse, can be done by robotics.

Automatic guided vehicles can deliver significant value to your warehouse operations, and some of these robots, such as warehousing AGV, are simple to deploy and don’t require major infrastructural changes.

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