DYNAMIC ROBOTICS MEETS COMPLEX PIECE PICKING
In addition to consumer desires for individuality, speed and flexibility, the wide variety of products and items plays a central role in internal process design. For order picking, this means a move away from case picking and towards piece picking. Instead of cartons with products, the products themselves are handled separately from the cartons. These products can present a wide variety of geometries in a matter of seconds: tubes, cylinders, cuboids and blisters. The combination of precise robot and gripper systems, visual object recognition and customised software means there is no need to teach in individual items. The whole system used for order picking is therefore completely and fully automated – and able to handle any product.
