DEPLOYMENT of mobile warehouse robots will exceed 500,000 worldwide in 2030 after growing 40 per cent a year, according to Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI), reports the American Journal of Transportation.
The estimates are largely based on the supply chain industry surge in automation due to efforts to contain the e-commerce boom and labour shortages.
'Productivity technologies can achieve far greater return on investment if correctly combined with other technologies. For example, by combining location tracking data with a voice solution, warehouses using a Warehouse Execution System (WES) platform can optimize workflows by minimizing distance travelled based on where the worker is,' said ABI Research analyst Adhish Luitel.
Led by innovators such as Swisslog, Bastian Solutions, and K?rber, the global Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) industry is set to grow nine per cent and be valued at over US$18 billion by 2030.
'As the shift toward robotics occurs with busier warehouses, manual workflows can be automated, or workflows that have traditionally been carried out by highly specialized and inflexible machines could soon be carried out by robots that can be moved and retrained as needed.' said Mr Luitel.
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The estimates are largely based on the supply chain industry surge in automation due to efforts to contain the e-commerce boom and labour shortages.
'Productivity technologies can achieve far greater return on investment if correctly combined with other technologies. For example, by combining location tracking data with a voice solution, warehouses using a Warehouse Execution System (WES) platform can optimize workflows by minimizing distance travelled based on where the worker is,' said ABI Research analyst Adhish Luitel.
Led by innovators such as Swisslog, Bastian Solutions, and K?rber, the global Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) industry is set to grow nine per cent and be valued at over US$18 billion by 2030.
'As the shift toward robotics occurs with busier warehouses, manual workflows can be automated, or workflows that have traditionally been carried out by highly specialized and inflexible machines could soon be carried out by robots that can be moved and retrained as needed.' said Mr Luitel.
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