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A goods to person solution for kitting to customer, manufacture or maintenance. A combination of proprietary hardware and software offering a flexible modular solution.
About
The Eiratech goods to person solution is the product of a blend of robotics and engineering experience, market developments and customer challenges. It’s a complete end to end robotics solution using cutting edge versatile hardware combined with flexible multi layered software. It offers, speed, efficiency, accuracy and machine learning to the handling, storage and retrieval or products to enable organisations optimise and grow their operations in line with their desired growth plans. The hardware has a platform based design that facilitates multiple applications including e-fulfilment and material handling (kitting & sorting, optimising). The Autonomous Mobile Robots each have their own on-board industrial computer running real-time OS to ensure safe and smart operations at all time. With such a powerful hardware platform to work through, the flexible software is designed for the most efficient execution. The robustness of the hardware enables greater scope for software feature growth without risk of compromising performance. Unlike many collaborative robots with their less resilient structure, the Eirabots are designed to work 24/7. Automating activities within a warehouse or manufacturing operation is always a challenge and risk. Starting small, clearing bugs and then scaling quickly are all key aspirations that the Eiratech solution can meet. Minimal infrastructure, modular design and mobility of robots reinforce the flexibility of its design and operation.
Key Benefits
Increasing efficiency and accuracy through automating non value added activities such as walking and searching for items are fundamental to the concept. Operations experience 4-6 fold increase in performance in some applications. A system that is ready to operate 24/7 means greater flexibility within operations enabling it to adapt to the changing requirements of mass customisation within manufacturing. Equally online fulfilment houses need to be responsive to customer demands in peaks and troughs, which is challenging when staffing such labour-intensive operations. The modular design facilitates the easy introduction and evaluation of a proof of concept and the subsequent ability to scale up quickly. Minimal infrastructure means the system can be easily moved, relocated or reformatted. Unlike traditional automation systems where a long term view on expected performance needs to be catered for at the introduction stage, this solution can grow with the operation giving a more appealing ROI profile. A more important long term benefit is the software that supports, drives and optimises the hardware. As an end to end solution provider, Eiratech offer both support and development of the solution. This ability to generate and analyse data from the operation to provide feedback and recommendations in a meaningful way.
Applications
The solution has been refined for Kitting within customised manufacturing operations and works well for large automotive manufacturers and smaller light manufacturing applications for consumer products made to order. It helps sort and group components together and facilitates the organisations preferred picking sequences. Within a goods storage environment it enables a denser storage of goods while holding the vital details of what, where and how long goods are stored. Where goods are stored is not relevant to the operators, their interest is in the ability to access the right goods at the right time quickly. E-fulfilment and micro-fulfilment are particularly suited to the solutions strengths. Within the grocery market, with the dark warehouses or the back of store consolidation for home delivery, the system has been adapted to offer an efficient and accurate solution to making a very challenging daily task more manageable.