Robotics & Drives Services delivers maximum agility, high
throughput and optimized real-estate in demanding customized
pick-and-package operations
BRUSSELS, Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockwell
Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world's largest company dedicated
to industrial automation and digital transformation, today
announced that Irish company Robotics & Drives Services (RDS)
is revolutionizing the ways its e-commerce customers cater for
variations in throughput, product types, and changeovers, through
the deployment of the MagneMover® LITE ™ Intelligent Conveyor
System (ICS).
Based in Mullingar, Ireland,
RDS, a global leading-edge robotics systems integration OEM, is
deploying multiple machines across blue-chip consumer companies.
These machines operate in dedicated pick-and-package cells within
the logistics warehouses of a leading global e-commerce company.
Already well established in the U.S.A., this dedicated-cell approach is seeing
growing deployment in Asia and
Europe, too. RDS is a leader in
delivering equipment with profound flexibility, recipe management,
throughput rates, and reliability.
Customers of RDS – with their huge arrays of products and order
volumes – demand levels of flexibility that require machines to be
multi-role and multi-product. With these demands encompassing the
product-transfer technologies too, the MagneMover LITE ICS is the
ideal solution due to its almost infinite motion profiles,
adaptability, and fast-changeover capabilities. It also integrates
effectively with widely used third-party systems.
Alan Hanniffy, program manager at
RDS, said: "Modern e-commerce is all about adaptability, speed, and
quality. Single machines have to offer multiple capabilities, often
within confined spaces, so we're always looking for agile solutions
that give us enhanced capabilities, which the MagneMover LITE ICS
delivers. This complements our own machine offerings, with the
levels of flexibility, robustness and precision that are required
to address the growing and more volatile list of challenges given
to us by our customers, which include greater savings, larger
returns on investment, and greater efficiency.
"Project risk mitigation is a key factor, too," Hanniffy said.
"When dealing with bespoke, never-before-seen solutions, with
substantial timeframe and schedule demands involving million-euro
budgets, our use of Rockwell Automation's Emulate3D virtual
commissioning software means we can work towards creating
right-first-time designs far quicker, and mitigate risk much
earlier in the project lifecycle more efficiently."
Phil Hadfield, sales director for
Northern Europe at Rockwell
Automation, said: "Agile in-machine and in-plant logistics are just
as important as the automation technology they serve, in order that
the benefits of digitalized architectures can be fully realized.
This deployment of our MagneMover LITE ICS is a textbook example of
an application that demands a level of flexibility that can only be
delivered by a smart servo-based conveyor solution."
Both platforms will soon see further deployment in a
research-and-testing loading cell within the Robotics & Drives
Services dedicated R&D center. Currently under construction,
the customer-experience demonstration will be used by RDS and
Rockwell Automation to showcase capabilities and technology
partnerships to prospective customers. It will also focus on
researching new approaches and the latest innovations to showcase
to existing and emerging customers.
About Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), is a global leader in
industrial automation and digital transformation. We connect the
imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand
what is humanly possible, making the world more productive and more
sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 29,000
problem solvers dedicated to our customers in more than 100
countries. To learn more about how we are bringing Connected
Enterprise to life across industrial enterprises, visit
www.rockwellautomation.com.
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