As autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) find their place in the DC, your challenge is to coordinate and optimize the tasks of humans and their robotic coworkers. Our Jennifer™ AI solves this problem, helping you hit your cost, quality, and service targets with fewer AMRs and fewer labor hours. Jennifer™ can help you:

Robots can perform order picking, product putaway and in-warehouse transfers, among other operations. Jennifer™ coordinates these processes, communicating with robots and directing workers by voice. Workers confirm their tasks using voice, scan, RFID, or robot-mounted screens or lights. Lucas dynamic warehouse automation software can help you with these robot-assisted processes:

Robot-to-goods picking. AMRs travel among workers in pick zones, stopping at pick locations where workers (directed by voice) pick and put items in the appropriate tote on the AMR. Multiple robots meet each worker, who can remain in a smaller pick area.

Goods-to-person picking. AMRs carry products in totes or stowed on moveable shelves to pick-stations where workers pick, scan, and place items in totes for shipping. Travel time is dramatically reduced for workers, allowing them to focus purely on picking.

Follow-the-robot picking or replenishment. AMRs function like powered, intelligent picking carts or pallet jacks. Jennifer™ AI creates batches, improving density and enabling each AMR to carry more orders. This optimizes collaborative picking productivity, reduces needed labor and wasted travel time.

Transit robots. Voice-directed workers use carts in designated picking aisles, off-loading completed totes or cartons at staging locations. Jennifer then notifies an available robot to fetch and transport the tote to its next destination.

Full pallet moves. Robots can perform full-pallet put-away or replenishment moves, replacing people in one of a DC’s most travel-intensive activities. When a worker calls a slot empty, Jennifer™ can notify an AMR that a let-down is needed. The benefits in this area include safely transporting large ad heavy payloads autonomously, while creating a less-congested and safer warehouse environment. It also allows DCs to repurpose forklift operators to higher value tasks, rather than spending labor hours on wasted travel. Common work types here include putaway, pallet picking and cross docking.