Robotics for Logistics
Robots can handle repetitive and physically demanding warehousing tasks, allowing employees to focus on more creative and fulfilling activities.
All the technologies you need for complete logistics and warehouse automation
The logistics industry involves consumer-related and operational challenges. Consumers want fast, low-cost delivery and the full availability of options, while warehouses experience labor scarcity, limited space, and the need to ensure accuracy.
These challenges can be solved with Omron’s wide-ranging automation technologies utilized in material handling systems, order-picking, AS/RS, traceability solutions and much more.
Flexible, space-saving layouts
Space is paramount in logistics, especially for companies located in urban areas. Allocating space for new equipment is expensive, and SKU shuffling due to seasonal demand requires time-consuming warehouse restructuring on a regular basis.
Omron can help you automate without adding floor space and make your operations more flexible overall with mobile robots, collaborative robots and more.
How Omron can help:
- Mobile robots that navigate easily in dynamic environments
- Coordinated mobile fleets with a variety of payloads
- Collaborative robotics for safe and flexible palletizing
Data collection and analytics
Warehousing equipment can be expensive to maintain, and downtime can drive up costs even further. Fortunately, new technologies offering 24/7 condition monitoring in real-time lower overall costs while improving quality.
Omron’s control and IIoT solutions keep operators aware of machine status and performance, while decision-making at the machine level instead of in the cloud eliminates security concerns.
How Omron can help:
- 24/7 monitoring of critical equipment status
- Effective alarming system when issues arise
- Ability to keep machine data out of the cloud
Maximizing speed and transparency
Customers expect things faster, and they don’t have the patience for warehouse errors that give them the wrong product. Real-time traceability and automated inspection solutions provide a highly effective way to speed up delivery and ensure accuracy.
Omron offers barcode reading, RFID, robust sensing and advanced vision technologies to help you meet the ever-increasing expectations of your customers without wasting space.
How Omron can help:
- Compact and flexible barcoding and RFID technologies
- Advanced decoding algorithms to minimize no-reads
- All-in-one traceability and vision inspection solutions
Ensuring safety in the warehouse
Even though products aren’t actually being made in a logistics facility, that doesn’t mean there are no hazards. Warehouse workers can suffer serious injuries from collisions and repetitive tasks if not properly protected.
As your trusted partner in safety, Omron is committed to building safety into every product and solution. We also provide comprehensive risk assessments courtesy of our safety experts.
How Omron can help:
- Automated solutions that reduce repetitive tasks for workers
- Safety features built into all robotic technologies
- Comprehensive risk assessments by certified safety experts
View our sessions from 2021 ProMatDX
Omron was a proud sponsor of 2021 ProMat Digital Experience (ProMatDX), which offered manufacturing and supply chain professionals critical access to the latest solutions for operational agility and reliability. As part of our sponsorship, we hosted four sessions on achieving warehouse Kaizen in the areas of data analytics, robotics pallet handling, machine safety, and automated label quality inspection.
Omron's Logistics Technologies
Identification & Traceability
Traceability solutions with user-friendly identification technologies enable your warehouse management system to monitor inventory information in real time.
Safety for Logistics
Safety needs increase as your warehouse facilities become more automated. We build safety features into every logistics automation solution.
Sensing
We offer a wide variety of detection options with robust sensing technologies that keep your facility running smoothly and consistently.
Vision & Inspection
Our print verification solutions include thermal printer-integrated solutions that provide 100% label inspection to the relevant ISO and GS1 standards.
Automation Control & IIoT
We can help with system visualization, centralized control, platform interoperability and even the inclusion of edge-based AI analytics in your facility.
Choosing the right autonomous mobile robot for your warehouse
Materials transport can be extremely complex and laborious. Tasking human workers with these activities is cumbersome and inefficient, but there have historically been many barriers to automating materials transport needs.
The Omron autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), which include the LD and HD families, overcome these obstacles through innovative software that lets them self-navigate throughout dynamic environments along the shortest viable pathway to their destination.
See how predictive maintenance can keep your conveyors running
Traditional maintenance takes place at scheduled intervals and requires skilled workers to complete time-consuming manual processes. Problems arising between inspection dates may go unnoticed, and companies may replace equipment prematurely.
To ensure that your conveyors run smoothly, take advantage of Omron’s predictive maintenance technologies that evaluate equipment condition through continuous monitoring.