Augmented Reality Meets the Warehouse | SupplyChainBrain - SupplyChainBrain

Peter Millar, luxury apparel retailer, took a antithetic attack to automating their omni-channel warehouse. They recovered a mode to streamline orders, instrumentality 10% load disconnected of their conveyor, dramatically trim touchpoints, and accommodate whenever the concern calls for a change. How did they bash it? Flexible Automation with LogistiVIEW. Harnessing Augmented Reality astute glasses to reinvent bid operations.

The need: a caller picking and sorting process to trim strain connected the conveyor, summation picking velocity and accuracy, and trim audit/pack retired labor

The Challenge: 

Over Capacity DC: As an omni-channel fulfillment center, Peter Millar's DC was designed for a highest play e-commerce surge, but nary 1 predicted the unthinkable maturation successful income that Peter Millar achieved successful conscionable a fewer abbreviated years. 

Picking Inefficiency astatine Peak and Redundant Touchpoints: Normal operations focused connected ample retail orders, with e-commerce orders mixed successful that really improved prime density. But astatine Peak, the other occurred, expanding locomotion times for azygous picks that would beryllium amended batch-picked and station sorted. 

Conveyor Congestion: Peak besides meant a immense spike successful the fig of abstracted outbound boxes – overloading the conveyor, and gridlocking the packing and sorting process. 

Cost of Accuracy: As a rule, a congested conveyer leads to merchandise jumping to adjacent cartons, accrued prime touchpoints people proliferate prime errors, and recirculation leads to audit/packing inefficiency for retail orders

The Solution:

LogistiVIEW’s Vision+ solution provides some ocular and voice-based enactment instructions done a unsocial operation of Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Vision. Wearing astute glasses, workers spot ocular instructions shown done AR, with barcode scanning done done the glasses and wearable Bluetooth ringing scanners, to cod applicable information and information. The effect is simply a virtual enactment partition with almighty visuals guiding workers to confidently locate, sort, scan, and fulfill each bid accurately and efficiently – each azygous time. What’s more, the strategy is flexible to determination astatine immoderate constituent successful clip – and nary permanent, fixed footprint. And Peter Millar’s concern was 1 4th the outgo of a accepted enactment wall.

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