No midsummer daydreaming for the robot - KUKA Robot KR 180 PA

In the order-picking warehouse at Gilde in Tonsberg (Norway), the overriding concern is how to get freshly processed and packaged meat to the customer. About 140 employees currently sort customer orders. For some time now they have had a new colleague: a KUKA KR 180 PA robot. The robot takes care of the fast movers. This is the name given to the goods that are ordered most often, and which are consequently dispatched in large numbers.

The seasonally fluctuating fast mover products are produced in far higher numbers than the standard products. At Gilde they run on five production lines. In order to get them to the customer as fast as possible, an order-picking system able to handle the product diversity and also the increased capacity was required. (R 297)

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Science & Technology

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• Palletizing
• Robot
• Industrial Robot
• KUKA
• Factory Automation
• Robotics