Jingdong unmanned distribution station to be put into use, the arrival of the era of unmanned logistics?
- 2018-03-13 10:12
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Recently, the world's first unmanned intelligent distribution station, developed by the Jingdong, has been completed and put into use in Xi'an, Shaanxi.
The Jingdong intelligent distribution station has an area of 14.4 square meters and a height of 3.6 meters. It can store at least 28 containers, and has 1 delivery boxes, which can store 1 terminal unmanned vehicles and charge them.
When the distribution station is running, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sends the goods to the top of the unmanned distribution station and automatically unloads the goods. The goods will be automatically transferred and distributed inside the warehouse, from warehousing, packaging, sorting, loading, and the whole process 100% is operated by robots. Finally, the distribution robot will complete the distribution.
The terminal UAV and the self driving vehicle are important means to solve the problem of "last mile" distribution in urban and rural areas. The intelligent distribution station has become an important link to solve the terminal delivery unmanned. Vice president of Jingdong, group X division president Xiao Jun introduced the Jingdong man distribution station for a variety of urban and rural areas, and since the mention, return, receive a service, along with the extensive application of unmanned intelligence distribution stations, urban and rural areas of the mountain to help users more effectively solve the distribution problem of urban and rural areas "the last kilometer".
Prior to February 5th, the Civil Aviation Administration of Chinese northwest to the Jingdong group awarded the "Shaanxi Province, multimodal transport logistics distribution innovation pilot enterprises" license, approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China Jingdong to become the first in the province for the scope of national pilot enterprises of the UAV logistics.
Jingdong said that UAVs, self driving cars and unmanned warehouses are three pillars of Jingdong intelligent logistics. "Since last year 618, Jingdong UAVs have been operated daily in Suqian and Xi'an, and thousands of single distribution tasks have been completed in two months, with a mileage of nearly 20 thousand kilometers. Jingdong's self driving vehicle has also been operated in many universities in Beijing, Hangzhou and Xi'an, and intelligent robots have already been put into use in different warehousing and logistics centers.
Liu Yanguang, general manager of Jingdong X department, UAV industrial center, said that the intelligent logistics system of the three level "UAV + navigation" will be fully landed in Shaanxi. It is understood that, in order to further optimize Jingdong's strategic layout in Shaanxi Province, Jingdong plans to invest 10 billion yuan in Xi'an, and build an area of about 2000000 square meters of modern intelligent logistics infrastructure.
The unmanned competition of logistics is in full swing. Jingdong and Alibaba, Suning together, have shown their "no position", Amazon, DHL, DHL SF express have launched UAV delivery business.
At the beginning of last August, the Jingdong announced in Jiangsu Kunshan enabled unmanned sorting center, its biggest characteristic is, for from the package to the loading, the whole process of unmanned operation. At the same time, Ali's rookie network also announced that its own largest robot warehouse in China has been put into use in Huiyang, Guangdong.
The greatest advantage of unmanned logistics is to improve efficiency and reduce costs. According to the Jingdong, the storage efficiency of the Jingdong's unmanned storehouse is more than 5 times that of the storage efficiency of the traditional crossbeam. The sorting capacity of Jingdong Kunshan unmanned sorting center can reach 9000 pieces per hour, and the efficiency of the package link is increased by 4 times. Under the premise of the same site size and sorting quantity, each field can save 180 manpower. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can shorten the time of traditional manual delivery several times or even dozens of times, and the cost of logistics is also reduced.
Rookie network also said that in the past the traditional warehouse, consumer orders, pickers need to run to the shelf, goods sorting. Since an order often has several pieces and dozens of goods, the sorting operator needs to run in the warehouse many times, usually only more than 100 pieces of goods are picked up per hour. Now, the pick - up is more than 3 times more per hour than before.
Logistics unmanned is the trend of future development. It combines almost all the hot technologies. For Ali and Jingdong, this gimmick will attract capital aggregation and bring market value up. It is also one of the best means of competition in logistics industry at present.
But at present, the cost of logistics unmanned is much higher than that of labor cost at present. Therefore, large enterprises can not carry out large-scale commercial operation of UAVs and private storehouses. The current concept is far from mature application and system integration.
Source: interface news
Author: Xi future