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lobal warehouse automation provider, KNAPP, received considerable interest from visitors in its latest solutions at IMHX 2019. The company exhibited its brand-new fulfilment workstation, Pick-it-Easy Evo, for the first time in the UK and also demonstrated its award-winning, AI-enabled redPILOT software.
“The four days at the NEC were productive for the KNAPP team,” commented Craig Rollason, managing director for KNAPP UK. “As well as welcoming a number of prospective clients on our stand, we had very positive meetings with existing customers, suppliers and associates.” Promoting its technologies for automated handling, storage and order fulfilment, the KNAPP team was joined on the stand by colleagues from sister company, Dürkopp Fördertechnik, which has expertise in garment logistics.
ERGANOMIC & ERROR FREE PICKING
Developed with experience from over 1000
new workstation is designed to handle a broad range of goods – containers, trays and cartons in various dimensions, with loads of up to 50 kg – while minimizing strain on workers by reducing stretching, stooping and lifting.
Pick-it-Easy Evo embodies KNAPP’s zero defect philosophy. LED displays and touch screens combine with KNAPP’s intuitive easyUse interface to ensure error-free, rapid and efficient processes, as well as shorter training time for new personnel. Additional quality assurance equipment is also available – including light curtains, scales, scanners and image recognition technology for photo documentation.
Developed to work in synergy with KNAPP’s OSR Shuttle Evo automated storage system, the Pick- it-Easy Evo can either have a traditional connection to the store through a pre-zone or it can be connected directly to the OSR Shuttle in order to save space.
workstations from its Pick-it-Easy series delivered OPTIMISES LOGISTICS around the world to date, KNAPP’s Pick-it-Easy Evo combines ergonomic design with intuitive operation to enable warehouse staff to work smart, not hard.
A multitude of functions can be performed with Pick-it-Easy Evo – from standard processes such as picking, decanting, consolidation and returns handling, to customer-specific operations. The
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AI-ENABLED SOFTWARE Developed by redPILOT GmbH – a start-up
company within the KNAPP group – redPILOT software is designed to optimize warehouse logistics, with all experience gained being used for machine learning. The solution helps warehouse operators to use all available resources – such as systems, personnel, energy, space and materials – dynamically
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and intelligently in order to optimize performance in a context of constantly changing
factors such as order structure, delivery dates and store optimizations. The machine learning enables bottlenecks to be eliminated and operations to be fully optimized over time. The redPILOT solution can be seamlessly integrated into a client’s application regardless of which WMS, WCS or WES is in place, either being hosted as a cloud service or provided into the client’s existing hardware infrastructure. KNAPP’s KiSoft logistics software platform manages all processes – from goods-in to goods- out – and flexibly integrates various technologies. KNAPP’s redPILOT software won the award for Best IT Innovation at the 2019 Material Handling Industry (MHI) Innovation Awards at ProMat in Chicago earlier this year. The solution has been commissioned at 47 logistics sites worldwide for customers in diverse industry sectors – including seven sites of the German supermarket chain, EDEKA.
KNAPP AG’s order volume topped one billion euros for the first time in the company’s history in the business year 2018-2019. Net turnover rose by 34.5 per cent to 954 million euros and profits were also up by an impressive 44.2 per cent, with an EBIT of 65.2 million euros.
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