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Are you looking for ways to increase the efficiency of your warehouse without increasing labor costs? We understand the challenges that come with filling positions, and that’s why we’ve put together a list of 5 things you can do to increase productivity in your warehouse with the help of automation. Here are some consumer-focused tips to help you get started:
1. Get an Automated Palletizing System:
With an automated palletizing system, you can free up labor and increase productivity by automating the stacking of boxes when creating pallets. This system analyzes every box that goes in the pallet to find the best orientation and position, optimizing weight distribution and space ratio. This equipment comes equipped with various pallet types, product types, build patterns, and applications to help fit your business needs, saving you time, money, and labor while reducing accidents and work-related injuries.
2. Consider AGVs:
For large warehouses, transporting goods from one point to another can take time and people. Automated Guided Vehicles can help move pallets around your warehouse automatically without a person needing to drive them there, freeing up your employees to focus on other, more important tasks. AGVs like the Center-Controlled Rider Automated Pallet Jack can be driven by a person or used autonomously, allowing for flexibility in transporting your product and still allowing for a human to maneuver the pallet when a human touch is needed for tighter spaces without needing to move the pallet onto another equipment.
3. Customizable Sortation Systems:
Sortation systems can help increase productivity without compromising quality. Adding a sortation system to your warehouse can help you sort your products quickly, reducing labor costs. We can customize the sortation system to your company’s needs and budget, making it mostly automatic and requiring no human intervention.
4. Automate Storage and Retrieval:
Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ARSR) are a great way to revolutionize your warehouse, allowing you to lower both labor costs and maximize space utilization. By inputting the product type in the system, ARSR automatically organizes it for you, reducing the time spent separating and organizing the pallets yourself. When you need to take it out, tell the system the product you want, and it will retrieve it, allowing you to pick it up and load it into a truck. ARSR systems can come in all shapes and sizes to fit any of your business needs.
5. Consider Robotics:
Robotics is a hot industry for lowering labor costs and increasing efficiency. We can help you figure out which robotic system best fits your needs to help lower your labor costs, from using robotic arms to build pallets to using automated mouses to sort your products. An example of robotics is the various pallet mouses and robot arms used by Amazon to transport goods from their storage to the staging area for employees to package and ship. Without them, they would need to hire many more employees to do the same job, increasing their labor costs.
All these automation methods can be personalized to your specific environment and budget. They can come as simple or as complex as you need them to be and can be used to replace small parts of your operation or your whole warehouse entirely. By implementing these automation solutions in your warehouse, you can reduce labor costs while increasing efficiency, freeing up your employees to focus on more important tasks.
If you have any questions or would like more information on how automation can reduce labor in your facility, feel free to contact us.