ORDER PICKING
At 875mm tall with an 80x60cm loading surface, Prime Vision robots handle over 30kg, ideal for transporting a wide range of box sizes to meet K-Parts’ needs.
Guided by the warehouse management system, the robots navigate the sorting centre to deliver items to their correct destinations.
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uided by the warehouse management system, the robots navigate the sorting centre to deliver items to their correct destinations.
Robots are giving growing e-commerce businesses the opportunity to sort orders in is certainly the case for K-Parts, a leading online supplier of scooter, moped, motorbike and bicycle parts, which is using Prime Vision robots to accelerate its warehouse logistics at Harderwijk in the Netherlands. Working together with K-Parts staff and an automatic storage and retrieval system (ASRS), robots have optimised the sorting process and powered future growth.
LEANING INTO AUTOMATED ORDER PICKING
A web shop for anything on two wheels, K-Parts offers bikers seamless access to a wide range of high-quality parts to keep their pride and joy on the road. As the business grew, operators at parts vary greatly in size and shape, making process automation challenging.
K-Parts has replaced its original manual order picking process with an ASRS. When a web shop order is received, a custom box is erected that corresponds to the total volume of the products right picking station, where K-Parts staff pack the box with items provided by the ASRS. With this complete, the full box goes to the box closing machine, ready for sorting to the correct delivery destination. Now fully operational, the system has reduced waste, lowered manual intervention and
However, when designing the system, the question was how to transport the boxes and items between the different process steps? Considering the typical volume of 365 orders an hour, as well as the limited space within the footprint, so the company approached Prime task.
RIDE WITH ROBOTS
Standing at 875mm tall with an 80 x 60 cm loading surface ready to transport small or large items weighing over 30 kg, Prime Vision robots
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offer the versatility to carry a wide range of box uploaded maps of the facility and route data management system.
destination within a sorting centre, using information from the warehouse management allows them to transport small, medium or high smaller footprint than conveyors.
Prime Vision Account Director, Richard Hagen, eight robots to move between the box erector and three picking stations. Due to each box important that items and corresponding boxes arrived at the right picking station in perfect preferred, as boxes can be directed to the right with the correct products.”
application area and the positioning of the infeed to receive parcels without causing an obstruction. overhangs over the conveyor, which helps to load boxes of different sizes.”
HANDLING HIGH OR LOW VOLUMES While the system is optimised for current volumes, scalability can be achieved by adding or a new order picking, pick-up or drop-off point is simply a case of adding it to the facility map, which will enable the robots to drive themselves to the location. Increasing the capacity or complexity of the order picking operation is relatively straightforward, allowing peak times to be serviced more effectively.
“With bike parts, order volumes increase when the weather improves and bikers get on the road, scalability of robots mean that these peak times can be serviced effectively without placing undue less people,” Richard explains.
Bram van Eikenhorst, Operations Manager at with Prime Vision is that we are optimising our resources to maximise productivity. Ordered items and the corresponding box are conveyed quickly to sorting staff, they never have to search
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for anything. Our order picking process is very effective and never stands still, saving us a lot of manual labour, costs and time. I would absolutely recommend Prime Vision, especially for people who are in a similar situation to us.”
FUTURE GROWTH ACCELERATED Along with the robots, Prime Vision has provided spare unit to safeguard uptime should a breakdown occur. Prime Vision handled the full from 24/7 maintenance support, with Prime Vision able to handle 90 per cent of issues remotely.
Richard says: “Robotic sorting is a compelling solution as it allows any operation handling more than 800 items a day to cost-effectively automate e-commerce organisations, where improving trajectory. We support thousands of systems for over 50 customers globally, so this is something
Bram van Eikenhorst at K-Parts concludes: “Working with Prime Vision robots helps us by company, and these robots will keep our service consistent during high demand.”
At 875mm tall with an 80x60cm loading surface, Prime Vision robots handle over 30kg – ideal for transporting a wide range of box sizes to meet K-Parts’ needs.
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