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Mecalux has unveiled a state-of-the-art technological answer to optimize order choosing: an progressive collaborative robotic choosing system based mostly on the newest synthetic intelligence (AI) expertise.
Mecalux’s new automated answer incorporates Siemens’ SIMATIC Robotic Decide AI expertise, a imaginative and prescient software program that employs deep studying algorithms to considerably streamline choosing in warehouses. With AI built-in into the programmable logic controller (SIMATIC S7-1500), the collaborative robotic (cobot) performs order choosing with complete autonomy and most accuracy.
This robotic choosing system is the results of a stable alliance between Mecalux and Siemens, which merge their information and expertise in industrial automation applied sciences. The 2 corporations have a long-standing collaboration in implementing technological options that reply to the challenges confronted by the logistics trade.
Mecalux has launched two collaborative choosing options: a cobot programmed to securely share the workspace with operators and an automatic system that works autonomously in high-performance decide stations.
The choosing answer, developed at Mecalux’s expertise heart in Barcelona, has been designed to function 24/7 and execute as much as 1,000 picks per hour. Cobots can deal with a variety of things, making this expertise appropriate for companies from all sectors seeking to optimize order processing.
“The expertise partnership with Siemens has allowed us to hitch forces to create a extremely versatile, protected and user-friendly robotic answer that adapts to the particular wants of our purchasers,” Javier Carrillo, CEO of Mecalux, stated.
A digital camera positioned above the cobot’s choosing field captures a 3D picture of the products to arrange the orders. “The AI algorithm has been pre-trained with hundreds of thousands of things to supply out-of-the-box efficiency. It’s in a position to make selections in milliseconds on sturdy, collision-free choosing positions for merchandise offered fully arbitrarily. One of many key points of this answer is that it doesn’t have to know the 3D mannequin of the merchandise in query beforehand. The superior synthetic intelligence algorithm acts because the mind, enabling the good choosing course of,” José Ramón Castro, CEO of Siemens Digital Industries in Spain, stated.
As soon as the merchandise has been chosen, the cobot deposits it within the choosing field with excessive precision, benefiting from the accessible area. Mecalux has devised an algorithm to make sure that the cobot locations the products within the appropriate location.
Guided by Mecalux’s warehouse administration software program (Straightforward WMS), the collaborative choosing answer can change its gripping system routinely relying on the kind of merchandise to be dealt with. Upon receiving a brand new field, Siemens’ imaginative and prescient system and AI algorithm establish the objects inside and decide probably the most acceptable technique to decide every product.
This algorithm is executed utilizing probably the most highly effective {hardware} platform that Siemens gives available on the market: the S7-1500 PLC vary, which, along with the TM-MFP (Know-how Module-Multifunctional Platform), is able to executing AI expertise. That is achieved whereas respecting cybersecurity requirements and using the SCALANCE X household of clever switches.
With the launch of this progressive collaborative choosing system, Mecalux and Siemens reaffirm their dedication to delivering cutting-edge technological options that enhance operational effectivity for his or her purchasers.