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Our expertise in material handling allows us to create innovative logistics and warehouse automation systems to optimize your material movement challenges, both in the warehouse and the factory, from inbound material to outbound shipments or line-side delivery.

LOGISTICS/WAREHOUSING CHALLENGES

No matter what industry you’re in, you’re confronting warehousing & logistics challenges that affect your bottom line on a daily basis. JR Automation knows your warehousing and logistics challenges well, because our designs and approach are built on feedback from people like you. That’s also how we know that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution; every business stands to benefit from warehouse automation in different ways.

WAREHOUSING/LOGISTICS CHALLENGES VARY BY INDUSTRY

Every industry vertical carries with it unique challenges. Fortunately, the endless configurability of warehousing automation solutions can address those pain points, no matter what your business is. Our engineers will help your company design and build the right solution to meet your needs. We have experience creating systems integrating any of a combination of technologies: Palletizing (including Mixed SKU Palletization), Depalletizing, Sortation, Singulation, Picking Systems, Goods to Person, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS), Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), and Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMRs).

Warehousing Automation Industry Experience

Apparel
Consumer Goods
Food & Beverage
General Merchandise
Medical & Life Sciences
Manufacturing
Parcel
Third-Party Logistics (3PL)
Wholesale B2B

LOGISTICS & AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE SOLUTIONS

Warehouse and logistics automation saw a massive increase in adoption after the pandemic, and the forecast is for continued double-digit growth annually over the next decade. It’s easy to see why - robotic arms, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), and software make warehousing faster, safer, more accurate, and more profitable. Modern automation has made what used to be difficult or impossible in warehouses not only possible, but also profitable - which is important given how much increased shipping costs have likely eaten into your bottom line.

Every logistical challenge you encounter in your warehousing operations can be addressed, if not eliminated, with automation solutions:

Safety

Warehouses can be fraught with safety concerns, from handling hazardous materials to employees operating heavy equipment. Automation can relegate the dangerous work to machines, removing humans from harm’s way. Additionally, automation can be used alongside humans to make manual tasks more ergonomic.

Uptime

Minimize interruptions to your warehouse operations and achieve 99.9% uptime through a combination of hardware that can put in long hours, sensors, and AI-powered software that can monitor equipment to predict and schedule preventative maintenance (saving time and containing costs).

Speed

Robots can move at a relentless pace that humans can’t match, they don’t require bathroom breaks, and they can multitask more efficiently (like meticulously documenting their activity, keeping all records current). This all adds up to reduced processing time.

Staffing Shortages

In recent years, every industry around the world has struggled to find workers in a saturated labor market with high turnover rates. Warehousing automation can improve both the quantity of work you can do with your team, but also improve the quality of the work experience by delegating tasks that are hard on human bodies to robots.

Picking/Order Errors

Even with average error rates between 1%-3%, picking and order errors can cause a double-digit drain on profitability. Automated picking, sorting and packaging solutions produce a level of accuracy humans can’t match. They store, document, prioritize, and move orders through the warehouse more accurately and efficiently than humans - cutting time wasted looking for items or fixing order errors.

Scale

Lately it seems like the only certainty is uncertainty - which wreaks havoc on warehousing and logistics operations which have to scale to meet uneven demand. Warehouse automation adds a welcome measure of certainty to operations by enabling easier scaling (both up and down) by offering more efficient space and resource use, while also more accurately forecasting demand by using the data they automatically collect and feed to your WMS.

Lifecycle Management / Support After the Sale

Warehouse automation is directly related to material handling. Automated processes and technology supplement your workforce to maximize productivity and accuracy. These technologies can include the following and more:

AGVs & AMRs designed to work with your automation systems
Robotic arms that fit your warehouse's spaces, grasp, move, palletize, depalletize, and sort totes
Advanced automated storage/retrieval systems (AS/RSs) that can store products in racks

Warehouse automation solutions aren’t simply about using robots in place of an employee. Solutions customized to your warehouse, like integrated robotics or guided vehicles, will move at the speed you need where you need them.

WAREHOUSE AUTOMATION SYSTEM BENEFITS

The benefits of warehouse automation are expansive and growing. Warehouse automation technologies are flexible and scalable. With automated logistics and warehouse technologies, you can adjust to peak seasons or new market changes. Other benefits of warehouse automation include:

Maximized productivity
Increased uptime
Increased accuracy
Fewer shipping errors
Improved worker ergonomics
Fewer injuries and reduced fatigue
Maintained product quality
Improved shrink

LOGISTICS & WAREHOUSE AUTOMATION CAPABILITIES

No matter what industry you’re in, what type of warehousing you’re doing - JR Automation engineers can work alongside your team to develop a build to print solution for your business. Our team can work with any supplier/equipment, giving you additional flexibility to design the right warehouse automation for your needs and budget.

The upside of increased pressure on warehouses is that it’s resulted in many new systems and technologies you can bring to bear on your unique challenges - from AGVs/AMRs to Vision-based Picking; all of which we have experience configuring for businesses like yours. Our capabilities include:

Material Handling Solutions

Palletizing (including Mixed SKU Palletization), Depalletizing, Sortation, Singulation, Picking Systems, Goods to Person, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS), Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMRs) Integration, Robotic/Automated Induction, Singulization

Robotics Integration

Vision-based Picking, Robotic Simulation, Collaborative Robotics Integration

Software & Data Integration

Warehouse Management System (WMS) communication, Warehouse Execution System (WES) integration, Warehouse Control System (WCS) integration, In-line 3D Part Dimensioning, Scheduling Optimization, Custom Software Development

PALLETIZING, MIXED SKU PALLETIZING AND DEPALLETIZING SOLUTIONS

Robotic palletizers and depalletizers efficiently automate labor- and time-intensive tasks within manufacturing, distribution, and fulfillment applications. As demand increases for faster production and accurate fulfillment, depalletizer and palletizer automated solutions have become indispensable. JR Automation provides customers with our innovative platform of 24/7 operation depalletizer and palletizer solutions for boxes, totes, cartons, cases, and bags.

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AUTOMATIC PUT WALL

What if you could cut miles of conveyance and several hundred thousand square feet of fulfillment building floor space? Could you relocate that facility to be closer to your customers? The RFSS Robotic Sortation System can help you make that happen.

This groundbreaking sorting system removes the need to convey multiple orders for singulation, then conveys product further for final consolidation. Round, cylindrical, soft, hard, thin, thick, or heavy — as long as your product can fit in our flexibly sized tray, we can sort it for you. The RFSS Robotic Sortation System is so flexible that it can sort anywhere from 500 to 1,500 products per hour, occupying only 300 to 850 square feet of floor space.

A single RFSS module can be installed into existing conveyor and/or putwall environments, and you’ll see your labor steps, touches, and costs drop immediately.

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RFSS Robotic Sortation System

INTEGRATION WITH WAREHOUSE & LOGISTICS SOFTWARE (WCS, WMS, WES)

Regardless of your company's warehouse management system (WMS), warehouse control system (WCS), or warehouse execution system (WES) - you can be confident that JR Automation solutions can interface with and speak to your systems regardless of your provider.

Delivering Results

Our Project Execution Process (PEP) uses a proprietary phase gate approach to managing and delivering automation solutions. This advanced methodology keeps our global teams in sync, improves project planning, enables effective scaling, and ensures we're always learning and improving from our experience. Applied alongside our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system, this process facilitates effective collaboration and keeps cross-functional product development data unified and integrated into downstream manufacturing systems. Bottom line: We have the people, processes, and systems in place to deliver excellence — every time.

How JR Automation can help

JR Automation helps you uncover the best solutions for where automation can improve your operations. Then we help you deploy those technologies. We are experts at deploying solutions and scaling them when you need them. Our decades of experience have prepared us for the challenge of the modern warehouse.

As ecommerce booms and delivery timelines get shorter than ever before, we can help you evolve to a modern warehouse or convert spaces into rapid fulfillment centers so you can fulfill your customer promise. Whether you envision robotics, using machine learning, or innovating manufacturing 4.0, JR Automation can create your solution.

Industrial Grade Material Handling

From inbound material to line side delivery or outbound shipments, our expertise in material handling allows us to create innovative automation systems to meet our customers' specific needs.

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