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Quiet Logistics (Jackson) in particular has a system where all picked totes from the ground floor and mezzanine end up going down a conveyor and when they arrive at the end of the conveyor, a person transfers them to a pallet and pulls the pallet to the packing stations.
A Vector with a conveyor on top can pick up tote arrays from the conveyor and deliver the totes directly to the pack stations, and push them off the Vector and onto a flat table top surface. See attached video.
If there's a tote already at the unload space another tote can be offloaded and push the first one (depending on the relative weight of each tote and surface of the tables, which we would want to specify for best results).
One of the main benefits of this approach is that the drop off station can be as simple as a folding table from Costco.
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Problem/opportunity trying to be solved
Most customers have pack stations to which totes and tote arrays must be delivered. This is an idea for delivering totes to those pack stations and dropping them off with a robot. |
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Quantify the problem/opportunity
Customers that needs totes delivered to packing stations |
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What is the root cause of the problem/opportunity
Most customers have pack stations to which totes and tote arrays must be delivered. This is an idea for delivering totes to those pack stations and dropping them off with a robot. |
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| Customer need date | Jul 4, 2023 |
| Urgent request | No |
| Report Tag | Deployment |
Thanks Jason. I see this as one implementation of system directed transportation. Not unlike the UPS Smalls use case (pickup signal, transport order to robot, drop off signal).