SEPTEMBER - 2022 19logisticstechoutlook.comAWL'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 distributionAllart van de Schootbrugge,Account Managerconditions, 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.AWL's Rode is a random mixed depalletizing solution that is integrated with advanced machine learning and also utilizes soft-gripping technology to carefully handle parcels. Built with vision software, it determines grasp poses per item and optimizes speed by measuring weight on-the-fly. Rode has the ability to carry out reorientation of the parcel based on label detection and requires no human intervention to pick boxes from unstable stacked pallets.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 stands unique among its peers in material handling as it zeroes in on refining the process of developing a solution rather than just the solution itself. If a machine with vision and gripper technologies does not work properly, AWL works on integrating these parameters on a higher level to yield the maximum performance.The company's novel approach to formulating ideas and technologies on an innovation roadmap also separates it from its automotive peers that opt for project-based delivery without any development roadmaps. Miles ahead with its vision technology and vision knowledge paired with its 30 years of experience in robotics, AWL is proving to be a game changer in warehouse automation.
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