Introduction & Key Highlights
Modern warehousing faces a host of challenges, from optimizing space to managing labor costs and ensuring accuracy in order fulfillment. As demands for efficiency grow, businesses need innovative solutions that address these challenges head-on. Enter JASCI Software and Movu Robotics, a dynamic duo transforming warehouse operations through advanced automation with intelligent software.
Key benefits of warehouse pallet shuttle systems:
Maximized Storage Efficiency: Scale storage capacity from 2,000 to 90,000 pallets within a smaller warehouse footprint. The pallet shuttle system utilizes vertical space beyond forklift capabilities, making it especially valuable in high-cost environments like refrigerated and frozen warehouses.
Labor and Space Optimization: Reduces the need for manual labor and forklifts to perform repetitive tasks. This eliminates the requirement for wide aisles, freeing up square footage and lowering operational costs.
Enhanced Speed and Throughput: Increases the speed of pallet movement for both inbound and outbound operations, ensuring the system can handle peak periods with ease and efficiency.
Improved Safety and Accuracy: Minimizes errors, reduces workplace injuries, and simplifies training requirements, providing a safer and more reliable solution for warehouse operations.
What are Movu Robotics Warehouse Pallet Shuttle System?
Movu Robotics designs and manufactures the Atlas pallet shuttles, which maximize space utilization and simplify pallet movements. These autonomous shuttles navigate narrow aisles independently, eliminating the need for manual forklifts.
Pallets are stored in a rack array, typically holding 1,000 - 90,000 pallet positions. By adding elevators, pallets can travel vertically for both storage (put-away) and retrieval (picking).
By reducing the amount of space needed to store pallets (by as much as 50%), this solution becomes a very economical for manufactures and warehouses. Reduction in the number of forklifts and labor can help provide a quick ROI.
*Movu Robotics is part of the well-known *stow Group and formerly known as stow Robotics. The stow Group is a globally recognized leader in designing and manufacturing storage solutions (racking, shelving) with over 40 years of experience.
What is JASCI Software and how does it control Pallet Shuttles?
JASCI software is a global leader in logistics with it's "Smart Warehouse Platform". This next generation platform brings intelligence for WMS, WES, Robotics & Analytics, in a single system.
JASCI Software provides a complete Movu Robotics solution to perform the critical functions needed for every Movu Atlas pallet shuttle system. It does more than regular Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) by offering complete control, seamless communication, traffic management, dynamic slotting and task management. Our ALIDA technology (Autonomous Labor Intelligent Dynamic Assignment) has advanced algorithms and an easy-to-use interface where JASCI directs all the actions of Movu Atlas Shuttles. This makes it easy for any company to implement and operate their Movu Atlas Shuttle solution.
This smooth connection between software and hardware helps businesses reach a new levels of speed, efficiency and accuracy to reach the goals of every MOVU implementation. When considering high speed pallet movement, JASCI makes the difference of hitting your goals for pallet induction and outbound rates (pallets per hour).
Key Components for a Successful Pallet Shuttle Solution:
Robotic Execution System and API Platform: Serves as the central "brain" of the pallet shuttle solution, managing pallet induction, storage, retrieval, and staging. It also acts as the communication hub with the host ERP or WMS, coordinating inbound pallets, orders, and quality control processes.
Shuttle Controller and Shuttles: The PLC controller and robotic shuttles execute missions and tasks assigned by JASCI to efficiently move pallets.
Elevator Lifts: Facilitate vertical movement of pallets for both inbound and outbound missions, ensuring smooth transitions within the system.
Pallet Conveyors and Scanners: Handle pallet induction into the storage array and position pallets for elevators or shuttles, ensuring accurate and efficient workflow.
Racking and Position Tags: Pallet racking provides structured storage, while position tags enable precise pallet positioning within lanes. Robotic shuttles navigate on rails within the array for efficient pallet handling.
How it Works: Overview of JASCI Software
Explore how JASCI's Robotic Execution System "REX" works with Movu's Atlas Shuttle Solution in this section below:
Location Management and Position Tracking: JASCI simplifies the configuration of locations by mapping them to "Position Tags" used across the Movu Atlas Shuttle system. These tags are mapped and tracked in centimeters to accurately monitor pallet drop-off and pickup points, especially in deep lane configurations. Additionally, JASCI tracks Pallet Shuttles as they move past position tags, enabling intelligent decision-making for mission assignments and congestion management.
Streamlined Location Mapping: Simplifies location setup by assigning "Position Tags" within the Movu Atlas Shuttle system for precise tracking.
Accurate Monitoring: Tracks pallet drop-off and pickup points in centimeters, ensuring efficiency, especially in deep lane configurations.
Intelligent Mission Assignments: Utilizes real-time shuttle tracking to make smart decisions for task allocation and resource optimization.
Efficient Congestion Management: Monitors shuttle movements to prevent traffic bottlenecks and maintain smooth operations.
AI-Driven Slotting Optimization: Ensures efficient storage and retrieval by considering product characteristics, expiration dates, lot control and demand patterns. JASCI's AI slotting software is critical to attaining performance of the Movu Atlas solution. It balances and optimizes storage for storage and retrieval vertically and horizontally on all levels of the pallet array. This decreases shuttle travel time and reduces shuttle congestion by level, making the difference of Hitting your goal rates and ROI.
Key Considerations: Tracks expiration dates, enforces lot control, and accounts for product similarities to optimize inventory management.
Operational Benefits: Improves space utilization, reduces travel time, and minimizes product waste for greater efficiency.
Dynamic Adaptability: Leverages machine learning to respond to evolving warehouse demands and reallocate resources during peak periods seamlessly.
Dynamic Shuttle Missions: Automatically assigns missions to Movu Atlas Shuttles using real-time decision-making, ensuring efficient workload distribution. The system prioritizes tasks and dynamically reallocates resources during peak and non-peak periods, maintaining seamless and balanced operations.
Real-Time Decision Making: Automatically assigns missions to Movu Atlas shuttles based on current operational demands.
Workload Prioritization: Ensures high-priority missions are addressed promptly by dynamically scheduling shuttle operations.
Resource Optimization: Adjusts the missions of shuttles during peak and non-peak periods to maintain efficient workflow.
Real-Time Traffic Management: JASCI's ALIDA technology continuously monitors missions and Movu Atlas shuttles in real time. It intelligently optimizes shuttle missions to maximize throughput, prevent bottlenecks, and eliminate deadlocks, ensuring smooth operations without the need for manual intervention.
Intelligent Mission Optimization: Dynamically adjusts shuttle missions to maximize throughput and operational efficiency.
Bottleneck Prevention: Proactively manages traffic flow to avoid congestion and ensure smooth operations.
Deadlock Elimination: Detects and resolves potential deadlocks in real time, reducing the need for manual intervention.
Adaptive Elevator Controls: For both small and large shuttle systems, elevators are essential for efficient pallet handling. JASCI ALIDA features adaptive elevator controls that dynamically switch between inbound pallet storage and outbound pallet retrieval based on demand. This flexibility is crucial for maximizing pallet movement rates and ensuring high-performance operations.
Elevator Integration: Supports both small and large shuttle systems by incorporating elevators for efficient pallet handling.
Dynamic Elevator Switching: Adapts in real-time to handle inbound pallet storage or outbound retrieval based on operational needs.
Optimized Pallet Flow: Enhances the rate of pallet movements by efficiently managing elevator usage.
Scalable Performance: Supports both small and large shuttle systems, ensuring high efficiency across varying operational scales.
Inventory Management: JASCI offers robust tracking of all inventory within the Movu pallet storage array, enabling effortless lookup and management of lot numbers, serial numbers, and expiration dates. Key features include the ability to place inventory on hold for quality control, retrieve inventory for audits, and integrate seamlessly for real-time updates on put-away, retrieval, staging, and inventory snapshots.
Comprehensive Inventory Tracking: Monitors all inventory within the Movu pallet storage array with real-time visibility, including lot numbers, serial numbers, and expiration dates.
Quality and Audit Management: Enables inventory holds for quality control and simplifies audits with accurate, accessible records.
Seamless Integration and Updates: Automates updates for put-away, order retrieval, staging, and inventory snapshots, ensuring synchronized information with ERP or WMS systems.
Improved Operational Efficiency: Streamlines workflows, reduces manual errors, and ensures proper inventory rotation for compliance and accuracy.
Smart Allocation: JASCI’s intelligent allocation capability, powered by our SmartTask workflow technology, empowers customers to configure precise allocation rules. These rules optimize inventory selection for orders, ensuring efficient throughput and performance of the Movu Atlas Shuttle system. By minimizing unnecessary pallet movements, Smart Allocation reduces shuffling and streamlines operations, enabling higher rates and maximizing system efficiency.
Customizable Allocation Rules: SmartTask workflow technology allows customers to tailor allocation rules, ensuring the most efficient inventory selection for orders.
Optimized Shuttle Performance: Minimizes pallet movements to enhance throughput and maintain high performance in the Movu Atlas Shuttle system.
Reduced Operational Complexity: Prevents excessive pallet shuffling, enabling smoother operations and achieving desired rates with greater efficiency.
Pallet Shuffling Optimization: JASCI's advanced shuffling logic for deep lane storage ensures efficient "digging" of pallets required for quality control and order fulfillment. Unneeded pallets are strategically relocated based on predefined rules. By minimizing unnecessary shuffling, JASCI enhances operational performance and achieves higher throughput rates.
Advanced Shuffling Logic: Efficiently identifies and retrieves pallets needed for quality control and orders while minimizing disruption.
Rule-Based Relocation: Strategically moves unneeded pallets to optimal locations using predefined rules to streamline operations.
Performance Optimization: Reduces unnecessary pallet movements to boost throughput and achieve higher operational rates.
Conveyor Controls: JASCI enables direct communication with PLCs to manage conveyors and scanners for pallet induction and outbound staging in the Movu Atlas Shuttle system. This ensures that the correct pallet is picked up by the assigned shuttle, preventing out-of-sequence operations and maintaining seamless workflow.
Movu Atlas Shuttle Integration: JASCI delivers a real-time, fully integrated interface with Movu's Atlas Controller, streamlining implementation and simplifying troubleshooting for faster deployment and enhanced reliability.
Real-Time Integration: Provides a seamless interface between JASCI's platform and Movu's Atlas Controller for real-time communication.
Reduced Implementation Time: Streamlines the setup process, significantly shortening the time required for system integration.
Troubleshooting: Simplifies the identification and resolution of issues through a well-coordinated interface.
Operational Efficiency: Minimizes downtime during deployment, allowing faster ramp-up to full functionality.
Integrate with your ERP or WMS: JASCI offers a suite of cloud based API's to connect your ERP or WMS software to JASCI.
Cloud-Based APIs: Provides a robust suite of cloud-native APIs for seamless integration. See our API library.
ERP and WMS Compatibility: Connects your existing ERP or WMS systems through our standard API's. Utilization exisiting integrations in the our Integrations suite.
Customizable Analytics & Dashboards: JASCI has a full reporting platform with both real-time and historical data. Customers can easily customize and monitor the performance of their Movu Atlas shuttle system.
Comprehensive Reporting: Access both real-time and historical data for detailed performance analysis of the Movu Atlas shuttle system.
Customizable Dashboards: Tailor dashboards to monitor key performance metrics and operational priorities.
Real-Time Performance Monitoring: Track system efficiency and proactively address issues with live visibility.
Actionable Insights: Gain data-driven insights to optimize system performance and support informed decision-making.
Exception Management: Disruptions to the "ideal workflow," such as emergency stops triggered by staff for mechanical or pallet issues, may happen from time to time. JASCI incorporates advanced recovery logic to handle these situations, allowing operations to resume smoothly. The system includes intuitive self-service tools designed to empower users to address exceptions efficiently and minimize downtime.
Preparing for Implementation
Assessment and Customization
Analyze current warehouse layout and automation goals to develop tailored solutions.
Hardware Installation
Implement Movu Robotics systems, including pallet shuttles and conveyors.
Software Integration
Link JASCI with existing ERP/WMS systems for unified operations.
Staff Training
Comprehensive training programs to upskill employees in using JASCI and Movu systems.
Conclusion
The partnership between JASCI Software and Movu Robotics represents the future of warehousing. By integrating intelligent software with advanced robotics, businesses can achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Whether you’re looking to optimize existing operations or prepare for future demands, JASCI and Movu provide the tools to transform your warehouse into a model of modern efficiency.
Ready to revolutionize your warehouse? Explore how JASCI Software and Movu Robotics can optimize your operations today!
*STOW ROBOTICS & STOW ATLAS is a registered US trademark of STOW INTERNATIONAL (naamloze vennootschap (nv); BELGIUM)
*MOVU ROBOTICS, MOVU & MOVU ATLAS has pending US Trademarks
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