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Arjen Vos, Director Strategy & Development, Allart van de Schootbrugge, Account ManagerForce multiplying automation with its game-changing solutions for the logistics industry is AWL, a high-tech machine builder specializing in technology integration, logistics automation, and assembly techniques. AWL solves numerous operational and labour-related logistics challenges with its robotic singulating and depalletizing machines, Rosi and Rode, respectively. Material handling providers that work with machines can easily integrate AWL’s robot modules into their systems. Its industrial robots are vigorously built for the warehouse environment.
AWL’s robotic singulating and depalletizing solutions remove human labour from piece and item picking as well as from sorting and singulating parcels in e-grocery and parcel post distribution. The company’s optimized vision systems are especially beneficial in industries where robots are unable to distinguish a certain set of SKUs from inventories such as apparel, which often have irregular packaging.
Rosi is designed with high-tech gripper technology to carefully handle customers’ parcels with the capability to complete up to 1,500 picks per hour. Built with deep learning vision software, Rosi offers optimized lighting conditions, which allow it to easily recognize similarly coloured items from bulk or sorted goods. Compact and mobile, Rosi’s Plug&Play capability allows it to be both versatile and suitable for any task that involves singulating.
As a result of being in the automotive business, AWL’s emphasis on industrial robustness along with its creativity and competency in engineering is what sets the company apart. It has a competent centre of engineers that are able to address any unforeseen circumstances that can arise in projects. Logistics customers are often anxious to step into robotics because of such unpredictable circumstances, but AWL’s Experience Centre showcases its ability to help customers and prove its commitment to the job.
When setting out into the logistics markets, AWL envisioned being an enabler, in order to move the market as a whole further into automation. The company set up several teams within its R&D department to focus on vision, gripping, robotics and vacuum technology. The teams continue to investigate available techniques to develop or combine and integrate into one machine and test them.
AWL’s robotic singulating and depalletizing solutions remove human labour from piece and item picking as well as from sorting and singulating parcels in e-grocery and parcel post distribution
Company
AWL
Management
Arjen Vos, Director Strategy & Development, Allart van de Schootbrugge, Account Manager
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Force multiplying automation with its game-changing solutions for the logistics industry is AWL, a high-tech machine builder specializing in technology integration, logistics automation, and assembly techniques. With its robotic singulating and robotic depalletizing machines Rosi and Rode respectively, AWL solves numerous operational and labour-related challenges in logistics
DELFT - Fizyr, providing the smartest and fastest vision AI for robotic systems, announces an expanded partnership with leading systems integrator AWL.
"AWL has been a great partner to Fizyr for more than three years, and together, we've pushed performance to new heights and opened many eyes to the potential of robotic cells and systems with advanced vision capabilities," said Fizyr CEO Ken Fleming. "Our co-developed solutions reliably handle variations in items, materials, lighting and other factors, and AWL is making more of these solutions available to meet fast-growing demand."
Interact Analysis predicts the market for robotic picking will be worth $6.8 billion by 2030, up from $236 million in 2022. As AWL offers solutions that raise the bar in e-commerce order fulfillment and other growing high-variability tasks, organizations increasingly choose to automate to address staffing, scalability and other challenges.
A highly regarded systems integrator focused on the automotive, metalworking and intra logistics industries, AWL integrates Fizyr's vision AI into several of its most demanding implementations. In various use cases of prominent customers like DHL and Arvato, Fizyr has facilitated AWL's robotic systems with vision AI to achieve throughputs ranging from 700 to 800 parcels per hour across various layouts and SKU combinations.
Several recent innovations from AWL feature Fizyr's robotic vision AI, including ROSI and RODE. ROSI, AWL's robotic singulator reduces sortation bottlenecks that often accompany rising volume in a wide range of harsh environments. With Fizyr, ROSI determines the shape of each object, understands how it must be picked, and ultimately picks a variety of objects quickly and reliably, with virtually no human intervention. Built in label-reading capabilities allow the robot to accurately sort and singularize boxes based on destination, size or weight. RODE, AWL's robotic depalletizer, uses Fizyr to automatically unstack arbitrarily packaged goods such as boxes, bags or totes from pallets.