Warehouse & Logistics News took an early flight to the Netherlands and headed over to Fox Global Logistics where Hai Robotics, pioneer and leader in Autonomous Case-handling Robot (ACR) Systems, announced the launch of the world’s first telescopic Grapple Hook ACR, the HaiPick A42T-E2, and the HaiPick System 3.
These new innovations that address customer concerns around increasing storage density and performance at a smaller warehouse footprint. The telescopic Grapple Hook ACR can be integrated within HaiPick System 3, creating a nexus that facilitates higher performance while delivering enhanced storage density.
HaiPick A42T-E2 increases storage density and warehouse space utilisation, while its high performance provides accelerated and accurate fulfilment.
The world’s first telescopic grappling-hook ACR supports up to 5-deep picking, handles 35 to 55 totes per hour, flexibly adapts to inventory flow, is safe and reliable, easy to expand and is CE certified.
Traditional automated warehouse equipment offers low space utilisation, restricted business scenarios, difficult capacity/layout adjustment, slow deployment, heavy investment and low ROI. HaiPick System3, by contrast, provides 80% to 500% higher storage density; 3 to 6 times higher operator efficiency; is flexible, applicable to 2B and 2C services, with rapid capacity expansion; is easy to reconstruct and relocate and offers ROI in 3 years.
The HaiPick A42T-E2—equipped with ChainPick technology—features a grappling hook with a picking speed of 2.7 seconds, quickly pulling totes one after another. Such ChainPick technology is key to enabling up to five-deep tote storage capacity, allowing shorter picking and placing time to further streamline the goods-to-person workflow. Horizontal space in between totes can be slashed by 60%, ensuring no space gap at the back and hence optimising existing warehouse storage space. Businesses are also offered tailored solutions to scale up or down, allowing them to maintain a competitive edge without compromising on financial agility, while still achieving cost-efficiency.
“Businesses nowadays are struggling to not only optimise their warehouse space, but also strike a balance between automation and leaving room for growth,” Peter Guan, General Manager at Hai Robotics EMEA told WLN at the launch. “We are thrilled with the launch of the HaiPick A42T-E2. This project encapsulates our commitment to providing intelligent, flexible and efficient solutions for the modern warehousing industry, while keeping in mind the growing and dynamic needs of this market on a global scale.”
The HaiPick System 3, on the other hand, is the latest solution in Hai’s portfolio, enabling ultra-high storage density up to 50 totes/m2 and increasing worker efficiency up to six times. HaiPick System 3 is a highly standardised system incorporating Hai’s telescopic Grapple Hook ACRs and Fast-transit K50 autonomous mobile robots (AMR) running at a speed of 4m/s. HaiPick System 3 introduces fast deployment and efficient ACR-AMR collaboration: While ACRs handle totes from the top to the bottom of the racks, AMRs handle rack-bottom totes between racks and workstation swiftly. Additionally, the solution facilitates rack expansion by up to five-deep configuration, by using the telescopic Grapple Hook ACR, with a maximum picking height of up to 10 meters.
“HaiPick System 3 is a high-performance and agile solution that scales alongside businesses to better achieve instantaneous customer satisfaction,” added Guan. “Combined with the telescopic Grapple Hook ACR, warehouses will be able to achieve a level of performance efficiency and ROI at new heights in both B2B and B2C operations, such as within 3PL and apparel industries.”
Hai Robotics’ new launches are an innovative way to boost customers’ storage density.
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