Large-scale AMR deployment
European eComm delivery solutions provider Paack has deployed a large-scale autonomous mobile robot-based system in its distribution centre in Madrid.
WITH OVER 270 sorting and picking Geekplus robots deployed, it is said to be the largest autonomous mobile robot (AMR) project in Europe and the company’s first to handle both last-mile delivery and cross-docking operations.
The distribution centre is divided into two sections: a mezzanine level for sorting and a picking section on the ground floor. Sorting robots move parcels via chutes to racks on the ground floor, where picking robots move the parcels to the operators. The new system allows the distribution centre to guarantee 99.99% accuracy in order fulfillment while handling over 10,000 deliveries per hour.
Paack’s Madrid distribution centre covers more than 27,000 square metres and handles the distribution of parcels bound for over 60 cities in Spain. Geekplus AMRs handle last-mile delivery for locations in and around the Spanish capital, while cross-docking solutions prepare parcels for expedition to faraway destinations.
Having recently secured additional funding, Paack is scaling up its eComm operations and digitalising their entire logistics process to better support companies all over Europe. The project, as one of the largest in the company’s history, marks a major milestone in Geekplus’s European growth, as well as in the advancement of smart logistics on the continent as a whole.
Geekplus key account director Jean Gateau, says: “By entrusting AI-driven logistics robots with the sorting and moving of incoming parcels around the distribution centre, we feel Paack has set a new industry standard.”
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