Automated warehousing logistics industry will lead the open era of intelligent robotics applications

Automated warehouse is an important part of the rapid development of modern logistics system, it has to save land, effectively reducing the backlog of liquidity, improve logistics efficiency and many other advantages. Currently, the automated warehouse market capitalization has more than 17 billion yuan, according to China Logistics Technology Association Information Center survey, the next few years, automated warehousing market demand will grow 17 percent per year, 2015, the automated warehouse the market size will more than 32 billion yuan. Warehouse area of approximately 150 million square meters, more than 2,000 automated warehouse, multi-warehouse is less than 10.

Labor costs, land costs and energy costs increased sharply, all aspects of the logistics industry to operate independently, resulting in duplication and waste of resources constraints have become the logistics industry to achieve the transformation and upgrading of the bottleneck. Faced with the commercial general warehouse, especially the shortage of high degree of automation of the warehouse. Domestic electricity providers and large enterprises have to build automated warehousing logistics. In such a trend, the logistics robot will be rapid development.

In the logistics industry, the rapid development of today, the extent of application of robot technology has become a competition among enterprises and determine the future development of the important factors to measure. Currently, the robot technology in logistics focused on packaging palletizing, handling two jobs sectors, with the emergence of new robot technology, logistics and other areas, there have been cases of robot applications. Intelligent robots applied to the logistics industry, its efficiency is self-evident. In particular cargo handling, turnover, the robot can be fully qualified, especially in bad weather conditions, there are robots to replace, it can be said to be very safe thing. First, do not slow down, because the weather is not wasted time, but also improve the efficiency of cargo turnover. Construction of the plant in the future intelligent robot in intelligent logistics will play an important role.

AGV Robot
Whether or wharf general manufacturing, material handling and transport are one of the elements of logistics, logistics cost accounting system is also high. US industrial production processes and material handling costs account for 20 to 30% of the cost, the German logistics company material handling costs account for 35% of turnover, logistics and transportation costs in Japan accounted for 10% of production logistics and material handling costs about 20 processing costs %, so companies have been in the most perfect automated intelligent handling technology and equipment. AGV robots a flexible and intelligent logistics handling robot from the 1950s in a foreign country for use in warehousing, it has been widely used in the fields of manufacturing, ports, terminals, etc., in the country there are some enterprises gradually pay attention and apply the AGV to complete some simple handling tasks. AGV robots in China's automobile, tobacco, banknote printing, newsprint and other industries have been large-scale applications. Among them, the automotive industry (mainly parts manufacturing) AGV robots using the highest proportion, about 43%; followed by the power industry, accounting for 13% of the application; diesel engines, tobacco, dairy and beverage industry accounted for AGV applications 9% of the total, about 6% and 6%.
Hero of the rapid development of the logistics industry is an important sign of accelerating the process of logistics automation for the logistics industry, business plant logistics, automation upgrade is the most important natural AGV robots. AGV robots are equipped with the highest level of automation of logistics products, logistics automation system is the most flexible of having a link, almost all logistics equipment technology.

Palletizing robot
Palletizing automation as an important part of the logistics, the traditional palletizing equipment has been difficult to meet the development needs of factory automation logistics, the traditional palletizing equipment, for example, mechanical stacking machine, having a large area, program changes complexity, power consumption and other shortcomings; with manual handling large amount of labor, working hours and more, can not guarantee the stacking quality, impact products successfully entered the warehouse, there may be fifty percent of the products due to the size of error is too large and palletizing can not be stored properly, you also need to re-organize.
There are rectangular coordinates robot palletizing robots, articulated robots and polar coordinate robot, palletizing robot can adapt to the cartons, bags, cans, box, bottle and other forms of packaged goods palletizing operations. Currently palletizing robot in Europe, America and Japan in palletizing market share exceeds 90%, the vast pile of digital job done by palletizing robots. From the efficiency that can afford high palletizing robot not only weight, but also the speed and quality is much higher than labor. In the current four-axis Fanuc handling robot, for example, according to different load, divided 160Kg, 300Kg, 450Kg, 700Kg models. Its maximum velocity when the linear motion can be achieved 2500mm / s; the handling capacity can reach up to 1500 times / hour. Judging from the precision, each palletizing robot has a separate control system, greatly ensure the operation precision and repeatability of up to ± 0.5mm, fully meet the positioning requirements of logistics palletizing operations; from stability , the most advanced palletizing robot has reached the 5 and 6 axis, through the appropriate scientific and reasonable mechanical rigidity body design, the robot is not only the body adapt to the high load, high frequency palletizing operations, but also to adapt food snack SECTOR Picking cumbersome, highly flexible operational requirements;
In cost control, robotics, although the initial investment is higher, but was able to maximize the marginal cost-effectiveness, and each robot cost control for customers are constantly adding new products and technological achievements. For example: By using FANUC self-developed 2D (2 dimensional plane) and 3D (3-dimensional laser) vision system, the robot can automatically identify the location of objects being crawled so palletizing operation more flexible, reducing the product conveyor positioning costs of equipment and manpower.

Sorting crawling robot
Picking is carried out by robots varieties chosen, if varieties, shapes, robot needs to have image recognition system and multi-robot, the robot can each tray to an article based on the image recognition system "sees" Items shape, using its corresponding robot to crawl, and then put on the tray with.
Currently sorting robots crawl in warehousing and logistics applications are not many, there are some companies try and develop production. Future, empty warehouses, a robot will be sent to the packing station shelf, through accurate identification of the goods, sorting out the need of goods, after the package on a conveyor belt. This is not science fiction movie, but the future of intelligent logistics field. With the development of sorting robots, market, unmanned warehousing dream closer to reality.

Sorting robot has formed a prototype, once these intelligent sorting robot used in E, factories, logistics and other industries, will greatly improve the efficiency of warehouse management, compression labor costs. Sorting robot to enter the market will take some time, storage system is necessarily a form of automation and artificial presence in the short term, to realize unattended warehouse will take some time.