In most piece-picking operations, labor accounts for the highest costs. Pickers spend the majority of their time performing two tasks:
Smart carts have been developed to help pickers complete these tasks in more efficient ways when the items are small enough to be manually picked. Smart carts reduce the required walking between picks and help pickers to complete the picking transactions in shorter times.
VARGO™ Adaptive Software used its vast experience in piece picking operations and highly automated applications to engineer a smart cart that combines the most productive available technologies with the flexibility of the MANDATE IP™ software, targeting less sophisticated applications. The end result is HAWK™ (Highly Automated Warehouse Kart), a device that can easily be incorporated in any warehouse or fulfillment operation, with an immediate reduction in picking labor, allowing a full recovery of the system’s initial investment in a very short period of time.
The advantages of HAWK™ can be classified in five groups:
Download information for VARGO™ smart carts and order fulfillment modules, including pictures of HAWK™ and Condor™ with an example screen. This is an excellent introduction to mobile fulfillment and kitting workstations.
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