Project Overview

The customer in this case is an electronic components sales company. The company owns one of the biggest Chinese electronic components distribution centers in Xiamen. It occupies a floor area of 150,000 square meters with an annual production value of 4.5 billion. In this center, electronic products globally produced will be stored, unpacked, sorted, repacked, and transported to the world market.

This distribution center deploys 25 XYZ Robotics' picking robotic systems, including 3 for inbound depalletizing, 4 for inbound palletizing, 3 for outbound depalletizing, 6 for storing totes on and fetching them from racks, and 9 for piece picking. With these systems, the center's productivity has risen from 5700 pieces/hour to 17000 pieces/hour and nearly tripled. This cooperation helps achieve efficient distribution for the global supply chain.

Project Procedures

Pallet storage area: inbound depalletizing

After products arriving at the distribution center, forklifts transport pallets to depalletizing stations. Then, the robots here depalletize carton boxes on conveyors.

This process shows three highlights of XYZ Robotics' solution:

1. XYZ' s robotic system supports model-free and rapid recognition of more than 10,000 types of carton boxes without WCS data, including new types.

2. The system supports mixed-case depalletizing by layers on one pallet.

3. The smart switch between single-item and multi-item picking modes greatly improves the productivity and the efficiency.

Pallet storage area: inbound palletizing

After barcodes scanning and labeling, carton boxes are allocated by WCS. Then, the robots palletize them for inbound and longer-term storage.

This process shows two highlights of XYZ Robotics' solution:

1. The system supports pallet-partitioned palletizing to improve the utilization of pallets and reduce the storage cost.

2. The robot palletizes carton boxes with labelled sides out for the following processes.

Pallet storage area: outbound depalletizing

The robots depalletize carton boxes on conveyors. Then, workers will unpack these carton boxes, take inventory, and put products in totes for storage and a fast turnover.

This process shows two highlights of XYZ Robotics' solution:

1. The system generates an optimal and collision-free trajectory without teaching.

2. The robot picks with a 99.99% accuracy verified with the WMS/WCS data.

Tote storage area: store totes on and fetch them from racks

Paired with AGVs, the robots put totes in assigned compartments on racks for inbound or take totes from specific compartments to conveyors for outbound.

This process shows three highlights of XYZ Robotics' solution:

1. The Camera mounted above locates racks precisely and corrects the position offsets caused by AGVs to ensure safe and stable placement.

2. The eye-in-hand scanner reads barcodes on totes rapidly and accurately.

3. The custom gripper picks totes of 30 kg stably and allows small position offsets by AGVs.

Tote storage area: piece picking

Delta robots pick carrier reels and verify them by barcode scanning. Then, these carrier reels are put in order boxes by robots, packed and delivered manually.

This process shows two highlights of XYZ Robotics' solution:

1. The delta robot and high-speed distance sensor achieve efficient piece picking.

2. The barcode scanner reads 4 barcodes on the carrier reel rapidly and accurately.

In the coming future, with innovative machine vision and robotic intelligence software platform, XYZ Robotics will help more companies to achieve automated warehousing and distribution, building smarter, more efficient, and more flexible supply chains.