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Automated Logistics

Barry Hendy

Managing Director - ADDE

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ADDE?

• Andrew Donald Design Engineering

• +21 years delivering automation solutions

• Experienced team – turnkey solutions

• Mechanical, electrical, controls; design and build.

• Bayswater based

• Projects delivered to

• AstraZeneca, GSK, CSL, Hospira, Pfizer, MSD, Baxter Labs ..

• Food (packing and palletising) and manufacturing.

• Major project just delivered to Thales for explosives

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www.adde.com.au

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Automated Logistics

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Industry 4.0

Hype versus Reality

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Industry 4.0

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Industry 4.0

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Autonomous Robots?

• AGV – Automated Guided Vehicle

• Line following

• Heavy Logistics – Pallet movements

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Autonomous Vehicles

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SLAM

• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping…

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Navigation

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Industrial vehicles

• Easy to deploy

• Learns environment

• Simple targets at accurate locations

• Adaptive

• Navigate around temporary obstacles

• Re-program to new or changing tasks

• Human safe

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Warehouse

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Hospitals

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Small – Case or tote

• 50kg to 200kg

• Mir 100

• Omron Adept Lynx

• Otto 100

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Large – Pallet size

• 500kg to 1,500kg..

• Otto 1500

• Fetch

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To move …

• Case

• Tote

• Shelf

• Pallet

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What do we call them?

• More than an AGV

• Autonomous Indoor Vehicle (Omron)

• Mobile Robot

• Self Driving Vehicle (Clearpath)

• Virtual Conveyor (Fetch)

• Point to point

• Flexible and adaptable

• Expandable – just add more!

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Case Study:

Central Palletiser for AstraZeneca

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AstraZeneca.

• North Ryde, Sydney.

• Pulmicort Respules - Asthma related nebulizer

• Growing Chinese market

• 8 BFS lines installed - Producing over 70 million

units per year

• Expanding …

• $100 million investment

• 3 new lines

• Exports to more than $2.4 billion over next 4 years.

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Pallet Movements …

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Wrap, Shroud and Strap.

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The User Requirements Spec ….

• Collect cases from 11 lines.

• Up to 18 in the future

• Palletise – by batch/line

• Aggregate for serialization

• Wrap

• Shroud and strap

• Accumulate up to 40 pallets

• Minimise warehouse space

• Flexible for future products

• Reliability and redundancy

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Traditional approach

• Pallet dispenser

• Pallet conveyors

• Robot palletiser farm

• Pallet finishing

• A grid-lock array of conveyors

• Multiple ‘single point failure’ issues.

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What if …

• Execute all pallet movements with ‘Autonomous Vehicles’?

• Layout freedom

• Workflow flexibility

• Palletise with collaborative robots?

• Redundancy

• Flexibility – work arounds

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Swisslog CarryPick

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Swisslog CarryPick

• Not human safe … but fine for this application

• Moving around ‘big’ robots anyway.

• Pallet movements not time-critical to production

• Fine to go up to 30 minutes without movements.

• Not free-roaming

• Follow markers on the floor.

• But not required in this application.

• Predictability more important.

• Not their usual application – but well suited

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Palletise with UR10

• Leading collaborative robot

• Over 16,000 deployed.

• Comfortable with 4 kg boxes

• 10kg total capacity

• Keep palletizing if access to area is required.

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The Solution

• Collecting from existing 8 case–packers/palletisers, and 3 new lines

• Denipro EasyChain ring conveyor

• Interroll case presentation on new mezzanine

• 7 x UR10 palletizing onto 14 stations

• CarryPick move to 2 x pallet lifters then through

• Pallet scanner (Aggregation for serialization)

• Wrapper

• Shrouder

• Labeler

• Unload and re-load

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Convey to warehouse

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Palletise upstairs

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Finish Downstairs

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Features …

• Reliability

• Redundancy

• Work Arounds

• Flexibility

• Re-program AGV and robots

• Maintainability

• Clear access

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Future of material flows and logistics

• Autonomous, mobile, intelligent, self navigating mobile robot

vehicles.

• Virtual conveyors

• Programmable material movements

• Material supplies to line

• Product movement in labs and production

• Finished good movements

• End of line palletizing

• Automated pallet finishing and movements

• End-of-line palletizing – wrapping – warehouse.

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Simple workflow solutions

• End of line palletising

• Pallet dispenser

• Vehicle moving pallets

• Dispenser to palletiser

• Palletiser to wrapper

• Wrapper to store

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Reality of Industry 4.0

In the next few years…..

• Autonomous vehicle

• Deployed throughout industry

• Delivery of supplies to lines

• Moving finished goods through packing and dispatch

• Simplified material handling and logistics

• Automation solutions viable for smaller facilities

• Flexible and easy to deploy

• A range of solution

• Including dedicated Australian Standard Pallet vehicles…

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