LogiMAT: Fives unveils its latest innovations in material handling and automation

Fives, one of the world’s most preferred partners for transforming supply chain facilities, is proud to announce its participation at the LogiMAT logistics trade show (April 25-27, 2023) to unveil its latest innovations designed to optimize the performance in material handling and automation. Fives will be exhibiting in Hall 3 at Booth D37.

Fives, through its Smart Automation Solutions Division, is an industry leading provider and integrator of cutting-edge, smart, scalable, and sustainable solutions for advanced automation, handling, and sorting, for warehouse management, worldwide. Fives’ Smart Automation Solutions serves a wide range of business sectors, from retail and distribution to e-commerce, food, and other manufacturing industries, 3PLs, as well as parcel and postal.

For over 60 years, Fives has been developing innovative products and technologies, some of which have become market standards. Thanks to its ability to anticipate customer needs, Fives continue to invest in the technologies of the future, as well as extend its portfolio of solutions, to transform the supply chain facilities alongside its customers:

Caja Robotics Solution, a combination of robots, picking station and software to optimize warehouse operation

• New omni-channel distribution, mega distribution centers, requesting even-higher performance, extreme reliability, and micro-fulfilment closer to city-centers in more confined spaces, are likely to substitute the traditional shopping centers. As part of its ongoing development strategy to expand its piece picking offering, Fives added a new dimension to its activities in Europe through the implementation of the Caja Robotics solution which combines powerful robots, intelligently planned picking stations and powerful, AI-supported software. Controlled by Caja’s cloud-based advanced fleet management, the robots move cartons and bins between the picking stations and the shelves and thus constantly optimize goods management and the entire warehouse operation. Caja’s state-of-the-art warehouse technology can be easily adapted to the existing warehouse structure, could readapt later with the changing needs, and is flexible enough to handle peaks in orders. The solution is particularly suited to the specific requirements of industries with fluctuating throughput figures, such as e-commerce and retail logistics.

GENI-Ride™,the high-speed sortation solution for small/micro style parcels in the smallest footprint available

• The advent and growth of e-commerce dramatically increased the breadth of item size and shape distribution, including much smaller, lighter, and more slippery and dimensionally unstable items. The GENI-Ride™ is the realization of continuous evolution and advancements in linear parcel shoe sorter technology. GENI-Ride™ provides high-speed automated sortation of the increasingly prevalent small/micro style parcels in the smallest and densest footprint available by sorting to both sides of the machine into containers that can be placed as close as 28″ apart. Without the performance and item handling capabilities of the GENI-Ride, parcel and fulfillment operators are forced to continue to sort these items manually or find a functional space sufficient to hold larger, less efficient sorters.

GENI-Flex™, the modular sorting solution for extra-large and oddly shaped packages

• Ordinarily, oversized packages are sorted using manual labor. Workers remove oversized and irregular packages from the singulator conveyor by hand. This manual sorting of oversized packages is not only inefficient and physically demanding but also potentially harmful to workers’ long-term health and safety. Fives designed the GENI-Flex™ Modular Solution Irregular Sorter for packages that are extra-large and oddly shaped, and therefore considered non-conveyable on traditional sorters. GENI-Flex™ alleviates these physical and operational burdens by offering an industry-leading solution—an automated sortation system that handles extensive range of irregularly shaped and oversized products in the industry, including five-gallon buckets, tires, and carpet rolls. It also provides multiple pre-engineered takeaway options.

To meet the needs and logistics challenges of LogiMAT’s visitors, Fives will also showcase its traditional comprehensive ecosystem of smart and automated solutions:

• Based on AMR technology, Fives GENI-Ant™ sorter is designed to handle any kind of item within postal, express-courier, distribution, and e-commerce logistics centers. It can transport both standard and small non-conveyable items, including cumbersome, hard-to-handle and small-sized parcels.
• Fives OPR^® solutions, a range of case picking systems to fully automate retailers’ logistics operations.
• Fives is an official distributor of AutoStore™, which broadens its offering to piece picking to provide its customers with an omnichannel capability and seize opportunities on micro fulfillment.
• At the heart of the “industry 4.0”, Fives ’management and control software optimize logistics flows through digital services offering 360° monitoring for predictive maintenance and personalized, real-time customer support.

As a global industrial engineering Group, Fives continuously innovates to improve operators‘ working conditions and customers‘ competitiveness, and environmental footprint.

Quelle: www.fivesgroup.com