Automation equipment such as mobile robots and arm robotics is the core of building a smart factory. How to connect information and data between equipment and resources to reduce overall operating costs and maximize benefits requires a more intelligent warehouse management system.
Intelligent Warehouse Management System IWMS takes “goods to person” as the core concept and integrates a variety of warehouse optimization technologies. Based on the robot control and scheduling system RCS, iWMS can intelligently schedule the full range of mobile robot products, and seamlessly connect with the upper-level ERP/MES/OMS system of the enterprise, providing services for traditional manufacturing, 3C manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, e-commerce supermarkets, medicine, shoes and clothing, food, tobacco, express logistics and other industries to provide efficient and flexible warehousing and logistics solutions.
1. New UI, UX upgrade
Based on the warehouse business needs, IWMS sorted out and integrated the modules such as inventory management, basic configuration, and system management, and constructed the logic from the business level to the interface presentation. The expression system optimizes the interface composition between functional modules. Under the three dimensions of function integration, brand penetration, and interface presentation, the new generation of iWMS has completed the construction of a three-dimensional framework, fully optimized user experience, and enhanced its storage business carrying capacity.
2. Integrated management of multi-type reservoir areas
In order to realize the efficient and orderly operation of warehouses, warehousing and logistics centers in various industries rationally carry out corresponding warehouse planning according to different business needs, such as high-shelf storage areas, flat storage areas, container-to-person storage areas, and manual storage areas. Since different storage types have their own advantages and disadvantages, in order to meet the warehouse business, usually multiple types of warehouses coexist.
For example, the high-level shelf warehouse area is generally used for high-level shelf or ground stack pallet storage, which has dense storage and large storage capacity, but it is inconvenient to sort. The advantage of a multi-layer shelf-type flat warehouse or box-to-person warehouse lies in sorting efficiency. Therefore, it is possible to replenish goods from the storage area of the high-level shelf to the storage area of the plane and the box to the person, so as to realize the separation of storage and picking from the goods to the person. In addition, the artificial warehouse can also be used for emergency treatment of the robot warehouse and warehouse management of explosion warehouses.
With a set of robots, IWMS can realize the integrated “control” of various types of warehouses, complete the unified and efficient management of robot systems, storage data, resource equipment, etc., and effectively reduce manpower and operating costs.
3. Robot Hybrid/Cluster Jobs
There are usually mixed operation scenarios in the production process, which require the cooperation of multiple robots. IWMS cooperates with Robot Control and Scheduling System RCS, which can mix and dispatch Robot’s full series and multi-model robot products, open up key logistics nodes in the internal logistics link, and seamlessly connect storage handling-production line handling, warehouse handling-sorting handling and other mixed handling scenarios.
In addition to mixed operation scenarios, in order to achieve large-scale flexible production, robot cluster operations are also required. After parsing business requirements into scheduling tasks, IWMS can implement cluster scheduling of thousands of mobile robots based on RCS, and complete the “goods to person” mode of various warehousing operations such as goods in and out, production line connection, etc.
4. IWMS×AI Broadens the Boundary of Wisdom
Based on AI core technologies such as data mining, machine learning, and deep learning, IWMS provides four major algorithm services: warehouse location recommendation, inventory allocation, intelligent wave, and shelf temperature prediction, which can analyze and process storage business resource data to provide optimal execution methods.
Position recommendation
Based on data mining association rules and planning algorithms, IWMS comprehensively considers various influencing factors to optimize the storage plan, improve the overall storage efficiency and increase the order hit rate at the time of delivery. IWMS recommends the optimal combination of storage positions based on the information on the shelves of materials and analyzes the task requirements into scheduling tasks that can be executed by the scheduling system.
Inventory allocation
The inventory allocation algorithm service is based on a series of planning and intelligent search algorithms to accurately match order requirements. Users can manage corresponding business policies according to actual needs. IWMS supports the strategy of emptying warehouses or efficiency priority, thus providing the optimal outbound solution with the least number of times of rack handling.
Smart wave
IWMS can obtain orders, materials and inventory status in real time, and master global logistics information. The intelligent wave algorithm decomposes and reorganizes the business order pool according to the idea of global clustering, summarization and subdivision, combined with dynamic programming and machine learning methods, reasonably allocates inventory and intelligently builds outbound waves to ensure order timeliness, picking efficiency, effectively reducing the average order picking time.
Shelf temperature forecast
The coldness and heat prediction algorithm of the shelf exploratory analyzes the historical data of daily outbound materials according to the data mining algorithm, and predicts the outbound quantity of materials in the future based on the deep learning technology of neural network, which is used as a key indicator to measure the coldness and heat of materials, so as to dynamically adjust the position of the shelf where the item is located.
5. Epilogue
Behind the IWMS that “sees the overall situation” and “strategizes”, is the intelligent collision of robots, AI technology and intelligent algorithms, making flexible, digital, and visualized warehouse management and operation and maintenance within reach. With the transformation and upgrading of the traditional manufacturing industry, it is very important to build an efficient and intelligent smart logistics system. As a warehouse logistics information hub, it gathers big data such as various warehouses and equipment, and helps users realize the dynamic connection between managers and business and logistics scenarios. This is the core value of IWMS.
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