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Collaborative robots transform e-commerce warehousing

A Maersk cobot solution enables flexible automation in order fulfillment operations, improving throughput and driving productivity.

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The challenge

Businesses looking to scale up will face a number of unique challenges—not least, how to standardize and automate their processes in order to improve efficiency. By building infrastructure that makes things repeatable at scale, companies will be poised for future growth. In the e-commerce space, in particular, increasing throughput is key to scalability and, therefore, revenue.

At Maersk, we sought to transform the back end of retail operations by introducing flexible automation that would enhance productivity at the fulfillment center stage. Instead of relying purely on the physical labor of warehouse associates to push carts down aisles, source and scan items, then transport them to the relevant location, we needed to create a system rooted in automation.

The challenge was to deploy a technology that could work alongside humans to automate the process and assist with locating, selecting, and logging items for shipping with minimal manual input.

We introduced collaborative robots, or “cobots”, to the fulfillment centers

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Our idea

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