Cardinal Health Rolls Out Autonomous Robots To Drive Efficiency
Cardinal Health’s Dorval, Quebec, distribution facility is the company’s first in Canada to implement autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), helping to drive efficiency, improve employee safety and increase picking and packing accuracy. Twenty-seven Locus robots now support the work of the over 200 employees at the 225,000-square foot facility.
The robots essentially bring the work to the employees, allowing our teams to pick more orders quickly and accurately. Here’s how they work: Integrated with the facility’s warehouse management system, the robots receive picking instructions at the start of every shift, are loaded with totes, and, using sophisticated AI and optimization algorithms, determine the most efficient routes for traveling from one pick to the next to optimally satisfy the customer order.
The robots are multilingual, providing instructions in both English and French on touchscreen devices, as well as pictures of the products, which help ensure that employees identify the correct products in the requested quantities. Employees scan the items into the robot’s digital system, and then place the products into the robot’s totes. The robots then move onto the next picking area. Once its totes are fully packed, the robot moves them to a staging area for loading onto delivery trucks.
Working with the robots means that each employee stays within a specific zone in the facility and becomes an expert on the products located in that area. Employees no longer have to push carts loaded with hundreds of pounds of products, enhancing employees’ health and safety.
The robots help manage through labor shortages, making it easier to attract and retain talent and helping new hires onboard more quickly. Cardinal Health Canada is actively looking to expand the use of robotics to other facilities, to best service customers across the country.
The deployment of robotics is part of Cardinal Health’s commitment to enhance automation and drive efficiencies in our supply chain and operations across the enterprise. Here’s a video that speaks to this:
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Cardinal Health Rolls Out Autonomous Robots To Drive Efficiency
Cardinal Health’s Dorval, Quebec, distribution facility is the company’s first in Canada to implement autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), helping to drive efficiency, improve employee safety and increase picking and packing accuracy. Twenty-seven Locus robots now support the work of the over 200 employees at the 225,000-square foot facility.
The robots essentially bring the work to the employees, allowing our teams to pick more orders quickly and accurately. Here’s how they work: Integrated with the facility’s warehouse management system, the robots receive picking instructions at the start of every shift, are loaded with totes, and, using sophisticated AI and optimization algorithms, determine the most efficient routes for traveling from one pick to the next to optimally satisfy the customer order.
The robots are multilingual, providing instructions in both English and French on touchscreen devices, as well as pictures of the products, which help ensure that employees identify the correct products in the requested quantities. Employees scan the items into the robot’s digital system, and then place the products into the robot’s totes. The robots then move onto the next picking area. Once its totes are fully packed, the robot moves them to a staging area for loading onto delivery trucks.
Working with the robots means that each employee stays within a specific zone in the facility and becomes an expert on the products located in that area. Employees no longer have to push carts loaded with hundreds of pounds of products, enhancing employees’ health and safety.
The robots help manage through labor shortages, making it easier to attract and retain talent and helping new hires onboard more quickly. Cardinal Health Canada is actively looking to expand the use of robotics to other facilities, to best service customers across the country.
The deployment of robotics is part of Cardinal Health’s commitment to enhance automation and drive efficiencies in our supply chain and operations across the enterprise. Here’s a video that speaks to this:
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This entry was posted on April 12, 2023 at 1:44 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags Cardinal Health. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.