WAREHOUSING
SIMPLE DRIVERLESS TRANSPORT FOR QUICK GROCERY RETAIL
task (such as stopping, handing over containers, receiving containers or proceeding onwards).
NOW ALSO WITH
DECENTRALISED ROUTING Since it was first introduced to the market, the driverless LEO Locative transport system has proven itself as a container and carton transporter in practical use with numerous customers. Users across a wide range of industries are convinced by its ease of operation and its low cost. BITO recently presented a prototype LEO Locative featuring decentralised routing.
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dward Hutchison, managing director of BITO Storage Systems, explains how driverless transport systems can fulfil this need in
online grocery retail operations.
By reducing travel times for pickers, a driverless transport system can save time and money – even with the multi-level picking processes used in e-commerce warehouses and when traversing multi-tier installations.
The driverless LEO Locative container transporter from BITO makes a smart addition to e-commerce warehouses. It helps to reduce travel times for returns and other tasks. The transporter links
in the e-commerce sector, where a wide range of products are often sold.
LEO Locative also provides excellent assistance in this instance. The container transporter can drive to each picking station where it is loaded up by the picker, and then it carries the containers of orders to collection or packing stations before transferring them to the shipping department. E-commerce businesses often use multi-tier installations for storage and picking. A good solution in such cases is having a LEO on each floor of the installation.
workstations in a fulfilment centre. Each destination NO WI-FI OR IT REQUIRED can be flexibly programmed in as needed and integrated into the transporter’s journey.
TRANSPORT AIDS FOR MULTI- or IT required LEO Locative is easy to set up and LEVEL PICKING
Multi-level picking is often a good choice for e-commerce businesses. Compared to single- level or single-item picking, multi-level picking combines multiple orders into a single ‘pick’, with items only later being packed as individual orders. Items are picked off the shelf individually. The use of a downstream sorting process or consolidation station enables picking to be freed to a very large extent from order-specific constraints. Multi- level picking is therefore seeing increasing use
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Whether used in returns, for multi-level picking or on individual floors of a multi-tier e-commerce installation, the same is always true: with no Wi-Fi
run in-house – keeping procurement costs low. The user is always in charge of specifying routes and stopping points for this container transporter. They can simply lay down an adhesive coloured line on the facility floor to mark the route for LEO to follow. Stations where the transporter needs to stop and any tasks this driverless system needs to perform at each location, are also specified using markers applied directly to the floor. These markers function as LEO’s ‘brain’ and contain the information the system needs to perform each
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By reducing travel times for pickers, a driverless transport system can save time and money - even with the multi-level picking processes used in e-commerce warehouses and when traversing multi- tier installations
Dennis Ramers, BITO product manager for LEO Locative, said: “Decentralised routing expands and complements our existing LEO Locative system. Until now, LEO has been able to follow fixed routes in a fixed order. This has made it the simplest ‘point-to-point transport system’ on the market – and it will continue to hold this title. But now, decentralised routing lets the user send the transport vehicle to different destinations using a simple interface on a tablet. This will open up many new applications for LEO Locative while preserving its key properties: simplicity, no need for Wi-Fi, centralised control and – as a result – low investment costs which pay off very quickly.” As with the original, the decentralised variant of LEO does not require any Wi-Fi or IT infrastructure. This makes it a standalone solution just like its centralised counterpart, allowing users to implement it in-house just as before. Decentralised routing systems can be retrofitted on previously delivered LEO Locatives if desired.
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