Innovation in warehouse logistics and robot technology: Fully automatic palletizing and depalletizing with robot technology
Published on: November 29, 2023 / Update from: November 29, 2023 - Author: Konrad Wolfenstein
🏭💡 Innovation meets automation: The advanced combination of Modula and ABB robot technologies
🛠️✨ Transformation of production
An innovative project has implemented the production processes at Masinara, a Bologna-based specialist in the production of window frames and roller shutters. This company now features a fully automated processing island in which ABB robot technology works seamlessly with Modula's automated storage solutions. The resulting symbiosis between these advanced technologies has completely transformed palletizing and depalletizing in manufacturing.
🔄⚙️ Warehouse management automation
In the production area, the conventional sheet metal warehouses were replaced by seven state-of-the-art, automated Modula ML50D double tower warehouses, which represents a significant step towards the digitalization of warehousing.
🤖🚀 Integration of ABB robots
These automated storage systems were seamlessly integrated into the heart of the new robotics island - a precise ABB robot that moves on a 16 meter long ABB TRACK Motion IRBT linear guide and takes over the tasks previously carried out by humans.
📲🔄 Seamless software integration
The interaction between Modula and ABB brings together mechanical excellence and software innovation. Modula's WMS and ABB's software deck synchronize operations between physical warehouse and robotic processes.
📈📊 Increased productivity and efficiency
Through the technological symbiosis, Masinara experiences a significant increase in efficiency, an increase in process precision and a reduction in potential sources of errors, which improve the consistency of the products.
🔝🌟 Advantages of scalability
The newly implemented automatic storage systems offer flexibility that creates an important basis for being able to react quickly to market changes or customer requirements.
👨💼🎓 Improvement of working conditions
By reducing manual and monotonous work activities, working conditions improve for employees, who can now concentrate on more qualified tasks.
🌐🏆 Preparation for Industry 4.0
With this implementation, Masinara is securing its future viability and competitive strength and is preparing for the coming challenges of Industry 4.0 by placing itself at the forefront of technological progress and creating a basis for new industrial standards.
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🏭🤖 Automated efficiency in production and storage 📦
In modern production and warehousing, numerous processes are automated, which significantly increases efficiency and safety in the workplace. A striking example of such advances is the interaction between the internationally recognized technology company ABB and Modula, a manufacturer of automated storage solutions.
🔄 Depalletizing
Depalletizing is one of the operations optimized using this advanced technology. Originally done manually, transferring products from pallets into boxes required a significant amount of time and physical labor. Today, these processes are carried out by ABB robotic arms that pick up goods that can be identified via a barcode. The integrated weighing systems then ensure quality before the products are placed in a predefined pattern in drawers of the Modula storage solution. This minimizes the risk of human error while creating a smooth and optimized workflow.
📦 Palletizing
Palletizing, or conversely placing products from drawers back onto pallets, is also an automated process. A modern warehouse management system (WMS) is used, which makes customer orders visible and creates picking orders. These are confirmed by the innovative DECK software and organized according to the required palletizing pattern. The use of anthropomorphic robots, equipped with an artificial vision system and precise grippers, enables highly efficient and accurate packaging of orders, with the selection of products from Modula's drawers being automated and supported by artificial intelligence.
🤖🌐 Project Masinara – An automation beacon
The Masinara project is a leading example of these fully automated systems and reflects the immense importance of automation. The focus is particularly on occupational safety and ergonomics. Operators are now no longer forced to move heavy loads or work in confined and potentially dangerous environments. Instead, they perform monitoring and controlling functions, resulting in a significant reduction in work-related injuries and improved work quality.
🕒 Efficiency 24/7
Automation enables continuous production, even outside of regular working hours, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the entire logistics chain.
⚙️ ABB and Modula – symbiosis of technology
In addition, automation offers the possibility of carrying out processes during periods when operators are no longer on site, such as after work or overnight. This leads to a significant reduction in picking times and an increase in effectiveness in the logistics chain. The constant availability of the automated systems makes continuous production and logistics possible, which is invaluable, especially in times of high demand.
📈 Collaboration between ABB and Modula
The collaboration between ABB and Modula exemplifies how the synergies from robotics, artificial intelligence and automated warehouse solutions can be used to optimize highly complex industrial processes. This not only leads to more efficient work processes, but also to increased throughput speed in warehouse logistics and ultimately to increased customer satisfaction through faster delivery times and perfected processes. All of these aspects taken together impressively illustrate how essential automated processes have become for the future viability of production and storage facilities.
🧠💡 Progress through learning systems
The industry is constantly being revolutionized by more intelligent and connected systems. Machines with learning algorithms adapt better and better to dynamic market situations and customer requests, reinforce human work and drive competitiveness, since in a global economy time and efficiency determine the success of a company.
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- 🔍 Improving customer satisfaction through efficient logistics
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