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[An increased volume in online shopping has accelerated the need to enhance the supply chain process with efficient automation.] => 网上购物量增加加速了以高效自动化来加强供应链流程的需求。
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[https://www.dhl.com/global-en/delivered/digitalization/locus-robotics-robotic-picking.html] => https://www.dhl.com/global-en/delivered/digitalization/locus-robotics-robotic-picking.html
[Australia’s e-commerce companies are getting a boost with warehouse automation] => 澳大利亚电子商务公司通过仓储自动化获得推动力
[How automation improves warehouse productivity
Australia’s logistics sector has been deploying solutions such as automated guided vehicles for decades. But in the last few years, innovations in autonomous driving technologies as well as new flexible picking and manipulation systems are transforming what robotics and automation can deliver in both indoor and outdoor environments.
Robotic systems are becoming easier to deploy, powered by machine learning and powerful sensors that allow them to adapt rapidly to changing environments and work safely alongside logistics teams.
Take autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for example. Once a human worker at a pick station confirms their pick on a computer screen, these small, nimble robots retrieve the item from a mobile shelf and deliver it to the station. Enabled by geo-navigation technology, the AMRs calculate optimal navigation routes as they shuttle picking carts through warehouse aisles, taking much less time than a human picker would need to walk around the space.
AMRs are also being widely deployed to help staff clean facility floors, conduct inventory counts, and carry out property mapping and surveilling.
The aim behind deploying AMRs is to enhance and provide new opportunities for the existing labor force in logistics. DHL Supply Chain, for one, is looking at more than just investing in robotics.
“These solutions will also significantly reduce our employees' time on routine or physically demanding tasks, including heavy lifting. Such solutions allow them to have the opportunity to develop the skills to advance their careers, and work on meaningful and interesting projects,” said Steve Thompsett, Chief Executive Officer, Australia & New Zealand, DHL Supply Chain. To complement the technology upgrade, the company is also growing its Australian workforce over the next two years, on top of retraining and development opportunities to existing employees.] => 自动化如何提高仓库生产力
几十年来，澳大利亚的物流部门一直在部署自动导引车等解决方案。但在过去几年里，自动驾驶技术的创新以及新的灵活的拣选和操作系统正在改变机器人和自动化在室内和室外环境中的应用。
机器人系统正变得越来越容易部署，系统由机器学习和强大的传感器驱动，使它们能够快速适应不断变化的环境，并与物流团队一起安全工作。
以自主移动机器人(AMRs)为例。一旦拣货站的工作人员在电脑屏幕上确认了他们的拣货，这些小巧灵活的机器人就会从移动货架上取回物品，并将其送到拣货站。在地理导航技术的支持下，AMR在仓库通道中穿梭于拣货车时，计算出最佳导航路线，所需的时间比拣货人员在空间内走动要少得多。
AMR也被广泛应用于帮助工作人员清洁设施地板，清点库存，并映射和监视财产。
部署AMR的目的是为了提升物流业现有的劳动力，并为其提供新的机会。DHL供应链而所关注的不仅仅是对机器人技术的投资。
“这些解决方案还将大大减少我们员工在常规工作或搬运重物等体力劳动的时间。这样的解决方案使他们有机会发展技能，以促进他们的职业发展，并从事有意义和有趣的项目，”DHL供应链澳大利亚和新西兰首席执行官Steve Thompsett说。为了配合技术升级，该公司还将在未来两年增加其在澳大利亚的员工数量，同时为现有员工提供再培训和发展机会。
[Joining the race to stay competitive
Already, leading online retailers in Australia are taking advantage of these innovations. Online bookseller Booktopia, for example, is aiming to increase stock by 25 percent and cut delivery times following an AUD 4.5 million investment in robotics that went live at the end of 2021.
According to a report in the Australian Financial Review, Booktopia co-founder and chief executive Tony Nash said the robotic ‘shelf stackers’, which stack books onto 4-meter-high shelves, would enable the e-tailer to increase the stock in its Lidcombe warehouse in Sydney by 200,000 to 1 million books.
Other enterprises are adopting automation technologies wholesale as they build new facilities, rather than introducing them piecemeal. Take e-tailer Kogan.com, for example, which currently has 15 third party–operated warehouses. The company is reported to be seeking a site on which to build its own automated facility, augmenting its existing distribution footprint.
Major supermarket chain Woolworths, meanwhile, has announced plans to build two new automated warehouses at Moorebank Logistics Park in Western Sydney, both projected to open in 2024. The centers will deploy robotic pickers and build tailored pallets for specific aisles in individual stores, helping to speed up restocking.
Coles is also developing two data-driven fulfillment centers in Melbourne and Sydney, scheduled to open later in 2022. The company plans to use software developed by Ocado, a UK supermarket chain that has no stores, only warehouses.
As more companies follow suit, it’s no surprise that demand for mobile robot technology is predicted to grow: some experts are forecasting that globally, one million mobile robots for warehouse automation may be required each year by 2026.
“Of course, it’s not only large organizations that can benefit from the game-changing flexibility, speed, and performance of goods-to-person automation,” pointed out Ryan. “Small to medium sized enterprises also have a great opportunity to steal a march on larger retailers that may have committed to inflexible fixed-automated systems.”
Leading the way in smart warehousing
But what does all this look like in practice? At DHL, nowhere are the benefits of automation and robotics on more prominent display than at its smart warehouse in Beringe, The Netherlands.
Encompassing 128,000 square meters of floor space and 100 loading docks, the Beringe warehouse is a hub for up to 250 inbound and outbound trucks every day. But where operations here become truly ‘smart’ is when the machinery comes to life.
For example, AMRs work alongside human staff to improve existing processes or create new ones. As the AMRs help to perform picking tasks and transport the goods away, people can spend less time on their feet moving around the warehouse.
At the same time, the warehouse is equipped with robot picking cells, where stationary robots handle picking tasks using machine vision technology. Each of these robots can recognize packages of all shapes and sizes, picking 600 items per hour, 24 hours per day. Wireless tracking technology is also to help optimize the movement of equipment and people through the warehouse.
“In the long run, the automated processes we are putting in place for our Australia warehouses, accompanied by training and certification opportunities for our employees, can help them focus on doing more sophisticated warehouse tasks best left to humans,“ said Ryan.] =>
但实际操作时是怎样的呢？在DHL，自动化和机器人技术的优势在其位于荷兰Beringe的智能仓库中得到了最为突出的展示。
Beringe仓库占地面积12.8万平方米，拥有100个装货码头，每天可停靠250辆进出港卡车。但是，这里的操作变得真正“智能”的地方是机器开始工作的时候。
例如，AMR与工作人员一起工作，以改善现有流程或创造新的流程。由于AMR帮助执行分拣任务并将货物运走，人们可以减少在仓库走动的时间。
同时，仓库配备了机器人分拣单元，固定式机器人利用机器视觉技术处理分拣任务。每个机器人都能识别各种形状和尺寸的包裹，每小时可拣选600件物品，每天24小时不间断。无线跟踪技术也是为了帮助优化设备和人员在仓库中的走动。
“从长远来看，我们正在为我们的澳大利亚仓库设置的自动化流程，以及为我们的员工提供的培训和认证机会，可以帮助他们专注于完成那些最好由人类完成的更复杂的仓库任务，”Ryan说。
[A hallmark of the complex new normal evolving globally in the wake of the pandemic is a dramatic increase in e-commerce volumes. Australia is no exception.
Research is showing that due to social distancing, border closures and lockdowns, e-commerce spending in Australia reached USD 49 billion (EUR 49 billion) in 2021 – up from USD 38 billion in 2020. Around three-quarters of Australian businesses now earn part of their revenue from online sales. Online commerce accounts for 10 percent of Australia’s total retail trade.
For many B2C companies in Australia, this shift is highlighting the need for more efficient warehouse operations. Speeding up processing times for online deliveries is becoming vital in the race to win customers: according to PwC, 17 percent of online shoppers will abandon a brand if they face a long delivery wait.
In response, more Australian companies are embracing new digital technologies, automation, and robotics solutions in their warehouses to help them slash delivery times and offer customers faster, more flexible delivery options.
But how do such technologies work? How are they helping companies boost productivity and can they reduce the risk of warehouses acting as potential bottlenecks in an increasingly competitive e-commerce environment?
Automating to meet growing customer demand
Online shoppers set in motion a complex supply chain when they click the ‘buy’ button on a website. For the e-tailer’s warehouse or distribution center, this includes the labor-intensive picking process – that is, locating a specific item in what can be a vast space filled with hundreds of thousands of products.
Further steps involve getting an item ready for shipment. This might include packaging, sorting orders into put wall systems, and placing objects onto conveyor belts.
Efficient location mapping to identify and name all product shelving positions, work areas, and travel paths within a warehouse is key to ensuring the site can function optimally, as are systems to put away items in the right spot.
While wearable devices can help managers keep track of staff movements around a site, the human labor involved in all these steps can be time-consuming and even physically challenging. By contrast, a smart warehouse that uses intelligent software and advanced robot technology can automate many processes, saving time and reducing human error.
This can also directly benefit the bottom line: research shows that automation can increase revenue per square foot of logistics space by between 10 and 20 percent for e-commerce operations.] => 疫情爆发后，全球复杂新常态的一个标志是电子商务数量激增。澳大利亚也不例外。
研究表明，由于需要保持社交距离，加上边境关闭和管控，2021年澳大利亚的电子商务支出达到490亿美元（490亿欧元），高于2020年的380亿美元。 目前，约四分之三澳大利亚企业的部分收入来自网上销售。在线商务占澳大利亚零售贸易总额的10%。
对于澳大利亚的许多B2C公司来说，这种转变凸显了对更高效的仓库运营的需求。在赢得客户的竞争中，加快网上交货的处理时间变得至关重要：根据普华永道的数据，17%的网上购物者如果面临漫长的交货时间，就会放弃某个品牌。
作为回应，越来越多的澳大利亚公司在其仓库中采用新的数字技术、自动化和机器人技术解决方案，以帮助他们缩短交货时间，为客户提供更快、更灵活的交货选择。
但这些技术是如何运作的？它们是如何帮助公司提高生产力的？它们能否在竞争日益激烈的电子商务环境中，降低仓库成为潜在瓶颈的风险？
实现自动化以满足日益增长的客户需求
当网上购物者点击网站上的“购买”按钮时，他们就启动了一个复杂的供应链。对于电子零售商的仓库或配送中心来说，这包括劳动密集的拣选过程，即在一个充满数十万种产品的巨大空间中找到特定的商品。
接下来的步骤包括准备好要装运的物品。这可能包括包装，将订单分类放入播种墙系统，然后将物品放到传送带上。
用于识别和命名仓库内所有产品货架位置、工作区域和行进路径的高效位置映射是确保站点能够最佳运行的关键，将物品存放在正确位置的系统也是如此。
虽然可穿戴设备可以帮助管理人员追踪员工在现场的活动情况，但所有这些步骤所涉及的人力劳动可能非常耗时，甚至十分挑战体力。相比之下，使用智能软件和先进机器人技术的智能仓库可以使许多流程自动化，节省时间并减少人为错误。
这还可以让成本底线直接受益：研究表明，对于电子商务运营而言，自动化可以使每平方英尺物流空间的收入增加10%到20%。
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[How robotic picking is revolutionizing warehouse productivity] => 机器人拣货如何革新仓库生产力
[Automated warehouse robots are changing that, and DHL Supply Chain is taking full advantage.] => 自动化仓库机器人正在改变这一现状，DHL供应链正在充分利用这一优势。
[Read more] => 阅读更多
[Gaining competitive advantage with the right distribution partner] => 通过合适的分销伙伴获得竞争优势
[As Australia’s rapidly growing e-commerce market shows no sign of slowing down, DHL Supply Chain is investing AUD 150m over the next two years on automation and robotics at its Australian warehouses. This includes commissioning 1,000 new assisted picking robots by 2025.
“For Australian e-commerce retailers, transformation is necessary for survival at this point,” said Terry Ryan, CEO, DHL Supply Chain Asia Pacific. “Gaining competitive advantage means harnessing the warehousing fulfilment expertise that can allow them to offer faster delivery to their B2C customers, along with improved operational efficiency. That’s where DHL comes in. Our new solution is designed to combine robotic efficiency with human ingenuity as it helps companies accelerate their responses to changing customer demand.”] =>
由于澳大利亚快速增长的电子商务市场没有放缓的迹象，DHL供应链将在未来两年在澳大利亚仓库的自动化和机器人方面投资1.5亿澳元。其中包括到2025年启用1000个新的辅助分拣机器人。
“对于澳大利亚电子商务零售商来说，转型是目前生存所必需的，”DHL供应链亚太区首席执行官Terry Ryan表示，“获得竞争优势意味着利用仓储配送专业知识，使它们能够更快地向B2C客户交付货物，同时提高运营效率。这就是DHL的优势所在。我们的新解决方案旨在将机器人的效率与人类的创造力结合起来，帮助企业加快对不断变化的客户需求的响应。”
[An increased volume in online shopping has accelerated the need to enhance the supply chain process with efficient automation. A hallmark of the complex new normal evolving globally in the wake of the pandemic is a dramatic increase in e-commerce volumes. Australia is no exception.
Research is showing that due to social distancing, border closures and lockdowns, e-commerce spending in Australia reached USD 49 billion (EUR 49 billion) in 2021 – up from USD 38 billion in 2020. Around three-quarters of Australian businesses now earn part of their revenue from online sales. Online commerce accounts for 10 percent of Australia’s total retail trade.
For many B2C companies in Australia, this shift is highlighting the need for more efficient warehouse operations. Speeding up processing times for online deliveries is becoming vital in the race to win customers: according to PwC, 17 percent of online shoppers will abandon a brand if they face a long delivery wait.
In response, more Australian companies are embracing new digital technologies, automation, and robotics solutions in their warehouses to help them slash delivery times and offer customers faster, more flexible delivery options.
But how do such technologies work? How are they helping companies boost productivity and can they reduce the risk of warehouses acting as potential bottlenecks in an increasingly competitive e-commerce environment?
Automating to meet growing customer demand
Online shoppers set in motion a complex supply chain when they click the ‘buy’ button on a website. For the e-tailer’s warehouse or distribution center, this includes the labor-intensive picking process – that is, locating a specific item in what can be a vast space filled with hundreds of thousands of products.
Further steps involve getting an item ready for shipment. This might include packaging, sorting orders into put wall systems, and placing objects onto conveyor belts.
Efficient location mapping to identify and name all product shelving positions, work areas, and travel paths within a warehouse is key to ensuring the site can function optimally, as are systems to put away items in the right spot.
While wearable devices can help managers keep track of staff movements around a site, the human labor involved in all these steps can be time-consuming and even physically challenging. By contrast, a smart warehouse that uses intelligent software and advanced robot technology can automate many processes, saving time and reducing human error.
This can also directly benefit the bottom line: research shows that automation can increase revenue per square foot of logistics space by between 10 and 20 percent for e-commerce operations.
Gaining competitive advantage with the right distribution partner
As Australia’s rapidly growing e-commerce market shows no sign of slowing down, DHL Supply Chain is investing AUD 150m over the next two years on automation and robotics at its Australian warehouses. This includes commissioning 1,000 new assisted picking robots by 2025.
“For Australian e-commerce retailers, transformation is necessary for survival at this point,” said Terry Ryan, CEO, DHL Supply Chain Asia Pacific. “Gaining competitive advantage means harnessing the warehousing fulfilment expertise that can allow them to offer faster delivery to their B2C customers, along with improved operational efficiency. That’s where DHL comes in. Our new solution is designed to combine robotic efficiency with human ingenuity as it helps companies accelerate their responses to changing customer demand.”
How automation improves warehouse productivity
Australia’s logistics sector has been deploying solutions such as automated guided vehicles for decades. But in the last few years, innovations in autonomous driving technologies as well as new flexible picking and manipulation systems are transforming what robotics and automation can deliver in both indoor and outdoor environments.
Robotic systems are becoming easier to deploy, powered by machine learning and powerful sensors that allow them to adapt rapidly to changing environments and work safely alongside logistics teams.
Take autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for example. Once a human worker at a pick station confirms their pick on a computer screen, these small, nimble robots retrieve the item from a mobile shelf and deliver it to the station. Enabled by geo-navigation technology, the AMRs calculate optimal navigation routes as they shuttle picking carts through warehouse aisles, taking much less time than a human picker would need to walk around the space.
AMRs are also being widely deployed to help staff clean facility floors, conduct inventory counts, and carry out property mapping and surveilling.
The aim behind deploying AMRs is to enhance and provide new opportunities for the existing labor force in logistics. DHL Supply Chain, for one, is looking at more than just investing in robotics.
“These solutions will also significantly reduce our employees’ time on routine or physically demanding tasks, including heavy lifting. Such solutions allow them to have the opportunity to develop the skills to advance their careers, and work on meaningful and interesting projects,” said Steve Thompsett, Chief Executive Officer, Australia & New Zealand, DHL Supply Chain. To complement the technology upgrade, the company is also growing its Australian workforce over the next two years, on top of retraining and development opportunities to existing employees.
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Already, leading online retailers in Australia are taking advantage of these innovations. Online bookseller Booktopia, for example, is aiming to increase stock by 25 percent and cut delivery times following an AUD 4.5 million investment in robotics that went live at the end of 2021.
According to a report in the Australian Financial Review, Booktopia co-founder and chief executive Tony Nash said the robotic ‘shelf stackers’, which stack books onto 4-meter-high shelves, would enable the e-tailer to increase the stock in its Lidcombe warehouse in Sydney by 200,000 to 1 million books.
Other enterprises are adopting automation technologies wholesale as they build new facilities, rather than introducing them piecemeal. Take e-tailer Kogan.com, for example, which currently has 15 third party–operated warehouses. The company is reported to be seeking a site on which to build its own automated facility, augmenting its existing distribution footprint.
Major supermarket chain Woolworths, meanwhile, has announced plans to build two new automated warehouses at Moorebank Logistics Park in Western Sydney, both projected to open in 2024. The centers will deploy robotic pickers and build tailored pallets for specific aisles in individual stores, helping to speed up restocking.
Coles is also developing two data-driven fulfillment centers in Melbourne and Sydney, scheduled to open later in 2022. The company plans to use software developed by Ocado, a UK supermarket chain that has no stores, only warehouses.
As more companies follow suit, it’s no surprise that demand for mobile robot technology is predicted to grow: some experts are forecasting that globally, one million mobile robots for warehouse automation may be required each year by 2026.
“Of course, it’s not only large organizations that can benefit from the game-changing flexibility, speed, and performance of goods-to-person automation,” pointed out Ryan. “Small to medium sized enterprises also have a great opportunity to steal a march on larger retailers that may have committed to inflexible fixed-automated systems.”
Leading the way in smart warehousing
But what does all this look like in practice? At DHL, nowhere are the benefits of automation and robotics on more prominent display than at its smart warehouse in Beringe, The Netherlands.
Encompassing 128,000 square meters of floor space and 100 loading docks, the Beringe warehouse is a hub for up to 250 inbound and outbound trucks every day. But where operations here become truly ‘smart’ is when the machinery comes to life.
For example, AMRs work alongside human staff to improve existing processes or create new ones. As the AMRs help to perform picking tasks and transport the goods away, people can spend less time on their feet moving around the warehouse.
At the same time, the warehouse is equipped with robot picking cells, where stationary robots handle picking tasks using machine vision technology. Each of these robots can recognize packages of all shapes and sizes, picking 600 items per hour, 24 hours per day. Wireless tracking technology is also to help optimize the movement of equipment and people through the warehouse.
“In the long run, the automated processes we are putting in place for our Australia warehouses, accompanied by training and certification opportunities for our employees, can help them focus on doing more sophisticated warehouse tasks best left to humans,“ said Ryan.] =>
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Research is showing that due to social distancing, border closures and lockdowns, e-commerce spending in Australia reached USD 49 billion (EUR 49 billion) in 2021 – up from USD 38 billion in 2020. Around three-quarters of Australian businesses now earn part of their revenue from online sales. Online commerce accounts for 10 percent of Australia’s total retail trade.
For many B2C companies in Australia, this shift is highlighting the need for more efficient warehouse operations. Speeding up processing times for online deliveries is becoming vital in the race to win customers: according to PwC, 17 percent of online shoppers will abandon a brand if they face a long delivery wait.
In response, more Australian companies are embracing new digital technologies, automation, and robotics solutions in their warehouses to help them slash delivery times and offer customers faster, more flexible delivery options.
But how do such technologies work? How are they helping companies boost productivity and can they reduce the risk of warehouses acting as potential bottlenecks in an increasingly competitive e-commerce environment?
Automating to meet growing customer demand
Online shoppers set in motion a complex supply chain when they click the ‘buy’ button on a website. For the e-tailer’s warehouse or distribution center, this includes the labor-intensive picking process – that is, locating a specific item in what can be a vast space filled with hundreds of thousands of products.
Further steps involve getting an item ready for shipment. This might include packaging, sorting orders into put wall systems, and placing objects onto conveyor belts.
Efficient location mapping to identify and name all product shelving positions, work areas, and travel paths within a warehouse is key to ensuring the site can function optimally, as are systems to put away items in the right spot.
While wearable devices can help managers keep track of staff movements around a site, the human labor involved in all these steps can be time-consuming and even physically challenging. By contrast, a smart warehouse that uses intelligent software and advanced robot technology can automate many processes, saving time and reducing human error.
This can also directly benefit the bottom line: research shows that automation can increase revenue per square foot of logistics space by between 10 and 20 percent for e-commerce operations.
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[An increased volume in online shopping has accelerated the need to enhance the supply chain process with efficient automation.] => 网上购物量增加加速了以高效自动化来加强供应链流程的需求。
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[Australia’s e-commerce companies are getting a boost with warehouse automation] => 澳大利亚电子商务公司通过仓储自动化获得推动力
[How automation improves warehouse productivity
Australia’s logistics sector has been deploying solutions such as automated guided vehicles for decades. But in the last few years, innovations in autonomous driving technologies as well as new flexible picking and manipulation systems are transforming what robotics and automation can deliver in both indoor and outdoor environments.
Robotic systems are becoming easier to deploy, powered by machine learning and powerful sensors that allow them to adapt rapidly to changing environments and work safely alongside logistics teams.
Take autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for example. Once a human worker at a pick station confirms their pick on a computer screen, these small, nimble robots retrieve the item from a mobile shelf and deliver it to the station. Enabled by geo-navigation technology, the AMRs calculate optimal navigation routes as they shuttle picking carts through warehouse aisles, taking much less time than a human picker would need to walk around the space.
AMRs are also being widely deployed to help staff clean facility floors, conduct inventory counts, and carry out property mapping and surveilling.
The aim behind deploying AMRs is to enhance and provide new opportunities for the existing labor force in logistics. DHL Supply Chain, for one, is looking at more than just investing in robotics.
“These solutions will also significantly reduce our employees' time on routine or physically demanding tasks, including heavy lifting. Such solutions allow them to have the opportunity to develop the skills to advance their careers, and work on meaningful and interesting projects,” said Steve Thompsett, Chief Executive Officer, Australia & New Zealand, DHL Supply Chain. To complement the technology upgrade, the company is also growing its Australian workforce over the next two years, on top of retraining and development opportunities to existing employees.] => 自动化如何提高仓库生产力
几十年来，澳大利亚的物流部门一直在部署自动导引车等解决方案。但在过去几年里，自动驾驶技术的创新以及新的灵活的拣选和操作系统正在改变机器人和自动化在室内和室外环境中的应用。
机器人系统正变得越来越容易部署，系统由机器学习和强大的传感器驱动，使它们能够快速适应不断变化的环境，并与物流团队一起安全工作。
以自主移动机器人(AMRs)为例。一旦拣货站的工作人员在电脑屏幕上确认了他们的拣货，这些小巧灵活的机器人就会从移动货架上取回物品，并将其送到拣货站。在地理导航技术的支持下，AMR在仓库通道中穿梭于拣货车时，计算出最佳导航路线，所需的时间比拣货人员在空间内走动要少得多。
AMR也被广泛应用于帮助工作人员清洁设施地板，清点库存，并映射和监视财产。
部署AMR的目的是为了提升物流业现有的劳动力，并为其提供新的机会。DHL供应链而所关注的不仅仅是对机器人技术的投资。
“这些解决方案还将大大减少我们员工在常规工作或搬运重物等体力劳动的时间。这样的解决方案使他们有机会发展技能，以促进他们的职业发展，并从事有意义和有趣的项目，”DHL供应链澳大利亚和新西兰首席执行官Steve Thompsett说。为了配合技术升级，该公司还将在未来两年增加其在澳大利亚的员工数量，同时为现有员工提供再培训和发展机会。
[Joining the race to stay competitive
Already, leading online retailers in Australia are taking advantage of these innovations. Online bookseller Booktopia, for example, is aiming to increase stock by 25 percent and cut delivery times following an AUD 4.5 million investment in robotics that went live at the end of 2021.
According to a report in the Australian Financial Review, Booktopia co-founder and chief executive Tony Nash said the robotic ‘shelf stackers’, which stack books onto 4-meter-high shelves, would enable the e-tailer to increase the stock in its Lidcombe warehouse in Sydney by 200,000 to 1 million books.
Other enterprises are adopting automation technologies wholesale as they build new facilities, rather than introducing them piecemeal. Take e-tailer Kogan.com, for example, which currently has 15 third party–operated warehouses. The company is reported to be seeking a site on which to build its own automated facility, augmenting its existing distribution footprint.
Major supermarket chain Woolworths, meanwhile, has announced plans to build two new automated warehouses at Moorebank Logistics Park in Western Sydney, both projected to open in 2024. The centers will deploy robotic pickers and build tailored pallets for specific aisles in individual stores, helping to speed up restocking.
Coles is also developing two data-driven fulfillment centers in Melbourne and Sydney, scheduled to open later in 2022. The company plans to use software developed by Ocado, a UK supermarket chain that has no stores, only warehouses.
As more companies follow suit, it’s no surprise that demand for mobile robot technology is predicted to grow: some experts are forecasting that globally, one million mobile robots for warehouse automation may be required each year by 2026.
“Of course, it’s not only large organizations that can benefit from the game-changing flexibility, speed, and performance of goods-to-person automation,” pointed out Ryan. “Small to medium sized enterprises also have a great opportunity to steal a march on larger retailers that may have committed to inflexible fixed-automated systems.”
Leading the way in smart warehousing
But what does all this look like in practice? At DHL, nowhere are the benefits of automation and robotics on more prominent display than at its smart warehouse in Beringe, The Netherlands.
Encompassing 128,000 square meters of floor space and 100 loading docks, the Beringe warehouse is a hub for up to 250 inbound and outbound trucks every day. But where operations here become truly ‘smart’ is when the machinery comes to life.
For example, AMRs work alongside human staff to improve existing processes or create new ones. As the AMRs help to perform picking tasks and transport the goods away, people can spend less time on their feet moving around the warehouse.
At the same time, the warehouse is equipped with robot picking cells, where stationary robots handle picking tasks using machine vision technology. Each of these robots can recognize packages of all shapes and sizes, picking 600 items per hour, 24 hours per day. Wireless tracking technology is also to help optimize the movement of equipment and people through the warehouse.
“In the long run, the automated processes we are putting in place for our Australia warehouses, accompanied by training and certification opportunities for our employees, can help them focus on doing more sophisticated warehouse tasks best left to humans,“ said Ryan.] =>
但实际操作时是怎样的呢？在DHL，自动化和机器人技术的优势在其位于荷兰Beringe的智能仓库中得到了最为突出的展示。
Beringe仓库占地面积12.8万平方米，拥有100个装货码头，每天可停靠250辆进出港卡车。但是，这里的操作变得真正“智能”的地方是机器开始工作的时候。
例如，AMR与工作人员一起工作，以改善现有流程或创造新的流程。由于AMR帮助执行分拣任务并将货物运走，人们可以减少在仓库走动的时间。
同时，仓库配备了机器人分拣单元，固定式机器人利用机器视觉技术处理分拣任务。每个机器人都能识别各种形状和尺寸的包裹，每小时可拣选600件物品，每天24小时不间断。无线跟踪技术也是为了帮助优化设备和人员在仓库中的走动。
“从长远来看，我们正在为我们的澳大利亚仓库设置的自动化流程，以及为我们的员工提供的培训和认证机会，可以帮助他们专注于完成那些最好由人类完成的更复杂的仓库任务，”Ryan说。
[A hallmark of the complex new normal evolving globally in the wake of the pandemic is a dramatic increase in e-commerce volumes. Australia is no exception.
Research is showing that due to social distancing, border closures and lockdowns, e-commerce spending in Australia reached USD 49 billion (EUR 49 billion) in 2021 – up from USD 38 billion in 2020. Around three-quarters of Australian businesses now earn part of their revenue from online sales. Online commerce accounts for 10 percent of Australia’s total retail trade.
For many B2C companies in Australia, this shift is highlighting the need for more efficient warehouse operations. Speeding up processing times for online deliveries is becoming vital in the race to win customers: according to PwC, 17 percent of online shoppers will abandon a brand if they face a long delivery wait.
In response, more Australian companies are embracing new digital technologies, automation, and robotics solutions in their warehouses to help them slash delivery times and offer customers faster, more flexible delivery options.
But how do such technologies work? How are they helping companies boost productivity and can they reduce the risk of warehouses acting as potential bottlenecks in an increasingly competitive e-commerce environment?
Automating to meet growing customer demand
Online shoppers set in motion a complex supply chain when they click the ‘buy’ button on a website. For the e-tailer’s warehouse or distribution center, this includes the labor-intensive picking process – that is, locating a specific item in what can be a vast space filled with hundreds of thousands of products.
Further steps involve getting an item ready for shipment. This might include packaging, sorting orders into put wall systems, and placing objects onto conveyor belts.
Efficient location mapping to identify and name all product shelving positions, work areas, and travel paths within a warehouse is key to ensuring the site can function optimally, as are systems to put away items in the right spot.
While wearable devices can help managers keep track of staff movements around a site, the human labor involved in all these steps can be time-consuming and even physically challenging. By contrast, a smart warehouse that uses intelligent software and advanced robot technology can automate many processes, saving time and reducing human error.
This can also directly benefit the bottom line: research shows that automation can increase revenue per square foot of logistics space by between 10 and 20 percent for e-commerce operations.] => 疫情爆发后，全球复杂新常态的一个标志是电子商务数量激增。澳大利亚也不例外。
研究表明，由于需要保持社交距离，加上边境关闭和管控，2021年澳大利亚的电子商务支出达到490亿美元（490亿欧元），高于2020年的380亿美元。 目前，约四分之三澳大利亚企业的部分收入来自网上销售。在线商务占澳大利亚零售贸易总额的10%。
对于澳大利亚的许多B2C公司来说，这种转变凸显了对更高效的仓库运营的需求。在赢得客户的竞争中，加快网上交货的处理时间变得至关重要：根据普华永道的数据，17%的网上购物者如果面临漫长的交货时间，就会放弃某个品牌。
作为回应，越来越多的澳大利亚公司在其仓库中采用新的数字技术、自动化和机器人技术解决方案，以帮助他们缩短交货时间，为客户提供更快、更灵活的交货选择。
但这些技术是如何运作的？它们是如何帮助公司提高生产力的？它们能否在竞争日益激烈的电子商务环境中，降低仓库成为潜在瓶颈的风险？
实现自动化以满足日益增长的客户需求
当网上购物者点击网站上的“购买”按钮时，他们就启动了一个复杂的供应链。对于电子零售商的仓库或配送中心来说，这包括劳动密集的拣选过程，即在一个充满数十万种产品的巨大空间中找到特定的商品。
接下来的步骤包括准备好要装运的物品。这可能包括包装，将订单分类放入播种墙系统，然后将物品放到传送带上。
用于识别和命名仓库内所有产品货架位置、工作区域和行进路径的高效位置映射是确保站点能够最佳运行的关键，将物品存放在正确位置的系统也是如此。
虽然可穿戴设备可以帮助管理人员追踪员工在现场的活动情况，但所有这些步骤所涉及的人力劳动可能非常耗时，甚至十分挑战体力。相比之下，使用智能软件和先进机器人技术的智能仓库可以使许多流程自动化，节省时间并减少人为错误。
这还可以让成本底线直接受益：研究表明，对于电子商务运营而言，自动化可以使每平方英尺物流空间的收入增加10%到20%。
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[How robotic picking is revolutionizing warehouse productivity] => 机器人拣货如何革新仓库生产力
[Automated warehouse robots are changing that, and DHL Supply Chain is taking full advantage.] => 自动化仓库机器人正在改变这一现状，DHL供应链正在充分利用这一优势。
[Read more] => 阅读更多
[Gaining competitive advantage with the right distribution partner] => 通过合适的分销伙伴获得竞争优势
[As Australia’s rapidly growing e-commerce market shows no sign of slowing down, DHL Supply Chain is investing AUD 150m over the next two years on automation and robotics at its Australian warehouses. This includes commissioning 1,000 new assisted picking robots by 2025.
“For Australian e-commerce retailers, transformation is necessary for survival at this point,” said Terry Ryan, CEO, DHL Supply Chain Asia Pacific. “Gaining competitive advantage means harnessing the warehousing fulfilment expertise that can allow them to offer faster delivery to their B2C customers, along with improved operational efficiency. That’s where DHL comes in. Our new solution is designed to combine robotic efficiency with human ingenuity as it helps companies accelerate their responses to changing customer demand.”] =>
由于澳大利亚快速增长的电子商务市场没有放缓的迹象，DHL供应链将在未来两年在澳大利亚仓库的自动化和机器人方面投资1.5亿澳元。其中包括到2025年启用1000个新的辅助分拣机器人。
“对于澳大利亚电子商务零售商来说，转型是目前生存所必需的，”DHL供应链亚太区首席执行官Terry Ryan表示，“获得竞争优势意味着利用仓储配送专业知识，使它们能够更快地向B2C客户交付货物，同时提高运营效率。这就是DHL的优势所在。我们的新解决方案旨在将机器人的效率与人类的创造力结合起来，帮助企业加快对不断变化的客户需求的响应。”
[An increased volume in online shopping has accelerated the need to enhance the supply chain process with efficient automation. A hallmark of the complex new normal evolving globally in the wake of the pandemic is a dramatic increase in e-commerce volumes. Australia is no exception.
Research is showing that due to social distancing, border closures and lockdowns, e-commerce spending in Australia reached USD 49 billion (EUR 49 billion) in 2021 – up from USD 38 billion in 2020. Around three-quarters of Australian businesses now earn part of their revenue from online sales. Online commerce accounts for 10 percent of Australia’s total retail trade.
For many B2C companies in Australia, this shift is highlighting the need for more efficient warehouse operations. Speeding up processing times for online deliveries is becoming vital in the race to win customers: according to PwC, 17 percent of online shoppers will abandon a brand if they face a long delivery wait.
In response, more Australian companies are embracing new digital technologies, automation, and robotics solutions in their warehouses to help them slash delivery times and offer customers faster, more flexible delivery options.
But how do such technologies work? How are they helping companies boost productivity and can they reduce the risk of warehouses acting as potential bottlenecks in an increasingly competitive e-commerce environment?
Automating to meet growing customer demand
Online shoppers set in motion a complex supply chain when they click the ‘buy’ button on a website. For the e-tailer’s warehouse or distribution center, this includes the labor-intensive picking process – that is, locating a specific item in what can be a vast space filled with hundreds of thousands of products.
Further steps involve getting an item ready for shipment. This might include packaging, sorting orders into put wall systems, and placing objects onto conveyor belts.
Efficient location mapping to identify and name all product shelving positions, work areas, and travel paths within a warehouse is key to ensuring the site can function optimally, as are systems to put away items in the right spot.
While wearable devices can help managers keep track of staff movements around a site, the human labor involved in all these steps can be time-consuming and even physically challenging. By contrast, a smart warehouse that uses intelligent software and advanced robot technology can automate many processes, saving time and reducing human error.
This can also directly benefit the bottom line: research shows that automation can increase revenue per square foot of logistics space by between 10 and 20 percent for e-commerce operations.
Gaining competitive advantage with the right distribution partner
As Australia’s rapidly growing e-commerce market shows no sign of slowing down, DHL Supply Chain is investing AUD 150m over the next two years on automation and robotics at its Australian warehouses. This includes commissioning 1,000 new assisted picking robots by 2025.
“For Australian e-commerce retailers, transformation is necessary for survival at this point,” said Terry Ryan, CEO, DHL Supply Chain Asia Pacific. “Gaining competitive advantage means harnessing the warehousing fulfilment expertise that can allow them to offer faster delivery to their B2C customers, along with improved operational efficiency. That’s where DHL comes in. Our new solution is designed to combine robotic efficiency with human ingenuity as it helps companies accelerate their responses to changing customer demand.”
How automation improves warehouse productivity
Australia’s logistics sector has been deploying solutions such as automated guided vehicles for decades. But in the last few years, innovations in autonomous driving technologies as well as new flexible picking and manipulation systems are transforming what robotics and automation can deliver in both indoor and outdoor environments.
Robotic systems are becoming easier to deploy, powered by machine learning and powerful sensors that allow them to adapt rapidly to changing environments and work safely alongside logistics teams.
Take autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for example. Once a human worker at a pick station confirms their pick on a computer screen, these small, nimble robots retrieve the item from a mobile shelf and deliver it to the station. Enabled by geo-navigation technology, the AMRs calculate optimal navigation routes as they shuttle picking carts through warehouse aisles, taking much less time than a human picker would need to walk around the space.
AMRs are also being widely deployed to help staff clean facility floors, conduct inventory counts, and carry out property mapping and surveilling.
The aim behind deploying AMRs is to enhance and provide new opportunities for the existing labor force in logistics. DHL Supply Chain, for one, is looking at more than just investing in robotics.
“These solutions will also significantly reduce our employees’ time on routine or physically demanding tasks, including heavy lifting. Such solutions allow them to have the opportunity to develop the skills to advance their careers, and work on meaningful and interesting projects,” said Steve Thompsett, Chief Executive Officer, Australia & New Zealand, DHL Supply Chain. To complement the technology upgrade, the company is also growing its Australian workforce over the next two years, on top of retraining and development opportunities to existing employees.
RELATED ARTICLESHow robotic picking is revolutionizing warehouse productivityAutomated warehouse robots are changing that, and DHL Supply Chain is taking full advantage.Joining the race to stay competitive
Already, leading online retailers in Australia are taking advantage of these innovations. Online bookseller Booktopia, for example, is aiming to increase stock by 25 percent and cut delivery times following an AUD 4.5 million investment in robotics that went live at the end of 2021.
According to a report in the Australian Financial Review, Booktopia co-founder and chief executive Tony Nash said the robotic ‘shelf stackers’, which stack books onto 4-meter-high shelves, would enable the e-tailer to increase the stock in its Lidcombe warehouse in Sydney by 200,000 to 1 million books.
Other enterprises are adopting automation technologies wholesale as they build new facilities, rather than introducing them piecemeal. Take e-tailer Kogan.com, for example, which currently has 15 third party–operated warehouses. The company is reported to be seeking a site on which to build its own automated facility, augmenting its existing distribution footprint.
Major supermarket chain Woolworths, meanwhile, has announced plans to build two new automated warehouses at Moorebank Logistics Park in Western Sydney, both projected to open in 2024. The centers will deploy robotic pickers and build tailored pallets for specific aisles in individual stores, helping to speed up restocking.
Coles is also developing two data-driven fulfillment centers in Melbourne and Sydney, scheduled to open later in 2022. The company plans to use software developed by Ocado, a UK supermarket chain that has no stores, only warehouses.
As more companies follow suit, it’s no surprise that demand for mobile robot technology is predicted to grow: some experts are forecasting that globally, one million mobile robots for warehouse automation may be required each year by 2026.
“Of course, it’s not only large organizations that can benefit from the game-changing flexibility, speed, and performance of goods-to-person automation,” pointed out Ryan. “Small to medium sized enterprises also have a great opportunity to steal a march on larger retailers that may have committed to inflexible fixed-automated systems.”
Leading the way in smart warehousing
But what does all this look like in practice? At DHL, nowhere are the benefits of automation and robotics on more prominent display than at its smart warehouse in Beringe, The Netherlands.
Encompassing 128,000 square meters of floor space and 100 loading docks, the Beringe warehouse is a hub for up to 250 inbound and outbound trucks every day. But where operations here become truly ‘smart’ is when the machinery comes to life.
For example, AMRs work alongside human staff to improve existing processes or create new ones. As the AMRs help to perform picking tasks and transport the goods away, people can spend less time on their feet moving around the warehouse.
At the same time, the warehouse is equipped with robot picking cells, where stationary robots handle picking tasks using machine vision technology. Each of these robots can recognize packages of all shapes and sizes, picking 600 items per hour, 24 hours per day. Wireless tracking technology is also to help optimize the movement of equipment and people through the warehouse.
“In the long run, the automated processes we are putting in place for our Australia warehouses, accompanied by training and certification opportunities for our employees, can help them focus on doing more sophisticated warehouse tasks best left to humans,“ said Ryan.] =>
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Australia’s logistics sector has been deploying solutions such as automated guided vehicles for decades. But in the last few years, innovations in autonomous driving technologies as well as new flexible picking and manipulation systems are transforming what robotics and automation can deliver in both indoor and outdoor environments.
Robotic systems are becoming easier to deploy, powered by machine learning and powerful sensors that allow them to adapt rapidly to changing environments and work safely alongside logistics teams.
Take autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for example. Once a human worker at a pick station confirms their pick on a computer screen, these small, nimble robots retrieve the item from a mobile shelf and deliver it to the station. Enabled by geo-navigation technology, the AMRs calculate optimal navigation routes as they shuttle picking carts through warehouse aisles, taking much less time than a human picker would need to walk around the space.
AMRs are also being widely deployed to help staff clean facility floors, conduct inventory counts, and carry out property mapping and surveilling.
The aim behind deploying AMRs is to enhance and provide new opportunities for the existing labor force in logistics. DHL Supply Chain, for one, is looking at more than just investing in robotics.
“These solutions will also significantly reduce our employees' time on routine or physically demanding tasks, including heavy lifting. Such solutions allow them to have the opportunity to develop the skills to advance their careers, and work on meaningful and interesting projects,” said Steve Thompsett, Chief Executive Officer, Australia & New Zealand, DHL Supply Chain. To complement the technology upgrade, the company is also growing its Australian workforce over the next two years, on top of retraining and development opportunities to existing employees.
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[An increased volume in online shopping has accelerated the need to enhance the supply chain process with efficient automation.] => 网上购物量增加加速了以高效自动化来加强供应链流程的需求。
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[Australia’s e-commerce companies are getting a boost with warehouse automation] => 澳大利亚电子商务公司通过仓储自动化获得推动力
[How automation improves warehouse productivity
Australia’s logistics sector has been deploying solutions such as automated guided vehicles for decades. But in the last few years, innovations in autonomous driving technologies as well as new flexible picking and manipulation systems are transforming what robotics and automation can deliver in both indoor and outdoor environments.
Robotic systems are becoming easier to deploy, powered by machine learning and powerful sensors that allow them to adapt rapidly to changing environments and work safely alongside logistics teams.
Take autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for example. Once a human worker at a pick station confirms their pick on a computer screen, these small, nimble robots retrieve the item from a mobile shelf and deliver it to the station. Enabled by geo-navigation technology, the AMRs calculate optimal navigation routes as they shuttle picking carts through warehouse aisles, taking much less time than a human picker would need to walk around the space.
AMRs are also being widely deployed to help staff clean facility floors, conduct inventory counts, and carry out property mapping and surveilling.
The aim behind deploying AMRs is to enhance and provide new opportunities for the existing labor force in logistics. DHL Supply Chain, for one, is looking at more than just investing in robotics.
“These solutions will also significantly reduce our employees' time on routine or physically demanding tasks, including heavy lifting. Such solutions allow them to have the opportunity to develop the skills to advance their careers, and work on meaningful and interesting projects,” said Steve Thompsett, Chief Executive Officer, Australia & New Zealand, DHL Supply Chain. To complement the technology upgrade, the company is also growing its Australian workforce over the next two years, on top of retraining and development opportunities to existing employees.] => 自动化如何提高仓库生产力
几十年来，澳大利亚的物流部门一直在部署自动导引车等解决方案。但在过去几年里，自动驾驶技术的创新以及新的灵活的拣选和操作系统正在改变机器人和自动化在室内和室外环境中的应用。
机器人系统正变得越来越容易部署，系统由机器学习和强大的传感器驱动，使它们能够快速适应不断变化的环境，并与物流团队一起安全工作。
以自主移动机器人(AMRs)为例。一旦拣货站的工作人员在电脑屏幕上确认了他们的拣货，这些小巧灵活的机器人就会从移动货架上取回物品，并将其送到拣货站。在地理导航技术的支持下，AMR在仓库通道中穿梭于拣货车时，计算出最佳导航路线，所需的时间比拣货人员在空间内走动要少得多。
AMR也被广泛应用于帮助工作人员清洁设施地板，清点库存，并映射和监视财产。
部署AMR的目的是为了提升物流业现有的劳动力，并为其提供新的机会。DHL供应链而所关注的不仅仅是对机器人技术的投资。
“这些解决方案还将大大减少我们员工在常规工作或搬运重物等体力劳动的时间。这样的解决方案使他们有机会发展技能，以促进他们的职业发展，并从事有意义和有趣的项目，”DHL供应链澳大利亚和新西兰首席执行官Steve Thompsett说。为了配合技术升级，该公司还将在未来两年增加其在澳大利亚的员工数量，同时为现有员工提供再培训和发展机会。
[Joining the race to stay competitive
Already, leading online retailers in Australia are taking advantage of these innovations. Online bookseller Booktopia, for example, is aiming to increase stock by 25 percent and cut delivery times following an AUD 4.5 million investment in robotics that went live at the end of 2021.
According to a report in the Australian Financial Review, Booktopia co-founder and chief executive Tony Nash said the robotic ‘shelf stackers’, which stack books onto 4-meter-high shelves, would enable the e-tailer to increase the stock in its Lidcombe warehouse in Sydney by 200,000 to 1 million books.
Other enterprises are adopting automation technologies wholesale as they build new facilities, rather than introducing them piecemeal. Take e-tailer Kogan.com, for example, which currently has 15 third party–operated warehouses. The company is reported to be seeking a site on which to build its own automated facility, augmenting its existing distribution footprint.
Major supermarket chain Woolworths, meanwhile, has announced plans to build two new automated warehouses at Moorebank Logistics Park in Western Sydney, both projected to open in 2024. The centers will deploy robotic pickers and build tailored pallets for specific aisles in individual stores, helping to speed up restocking.
Coles is also developing two data-driven fulfillment centers in Melbourne and Sydney, scheduled to open later in 2022. The company plans to use software developed by Ocado, a UK supermarket chain that has no stores, only warehouses.
As more companies follow suit, it’s no surprise that demand for mobile robot technology is predicted to grow: some experts are forecasting that globally, one million mobile robots for warehouse automation may be required each year by 2026.
“Of course, it’s not only large organizations that can benefit from the game-changing flexibility, speed, and performance of goods-to-person automation,” pointed out Ryan. “Small to medium sized enterprises also have a great opportunity to steal a march on larger retailers that may have committed to inflexible fixed-automated systems.”
Leading the way in smart warehousing
But what does all this look like in practice? At DHL, nowhere are the benefits of automation and robotics on more prominent display than at its smart warehouse in Beringe, The Netherlands.
Encompassing 128,000 square meters of floor space and 100 loading docks, the Beringe warehouse is a hub for up to 250 inbound and outbound trucks every day. But where operations here become truly ‘smart’ is when the machinery comes to life.
For example, AMRs work alongside human staff to improve existing processes or create new ones. As the AMRs help to perform picking tasks and transport the goods away, people can spend less time on their feet moving around the warehouse.
At the same time, the warehouse is equipped with robot picking cells, where stationary robots handle picking tasks using machine vision technology. Each of these robots can recognize packages of all shapes and sizes, picking 600 items per hour, 24 hours per day. Wireless tracking technology is also to help optimize the movement of equipment and people through the warehouse.
“In the long run, the automated processes we are putting in place for our Australia warehouses, accompanied by training and certification opportunities for our employees, can help them focus on doing more sophisticated warehouse tasks best left to humans,“ said Ryan.] =>
但实际操作时是怎样的呢？在DHL，自动化和机器人技术的优势在其位于荷兰Beringe的智能仓库中得到了最为突出的展示。
Beringe仓库占地面积12.8万平方米，拥有100个装货码头，每天可停靠250辆进出港卡车。但是，这里的操作变得真正“智能”的地方是机器开始工作的时候。
例如，AMR与工作人员一起工作，以改善现有流程或创造新的流程。由于AMR帮助执行分拣任务并将货物运走，人们可以减少在仓库走动的时间。
同时，仓库配备了机器人分拣单元，固定式机器人利用机器视觉技术处理分拣任务。每个机器人都能识别各种形状和尺寸的包裹，每小时可拣选600件物品，每天24小时不间断。无线跟踪技术也是为了帮助优化设备和人员在仓库中的走动。
“从长远来看，我们正在为我们的澳大利亚仓库设置的自动化流程，以及为我们的员工提供的培训和认证机会，可以帮助他们专注于完成那些最好由人类完成的更复杂的仓库任务，”Ryan说。
[A hallmark of the complex new normal evolving globally in the wake of the pandemic is a dramatic increase in e-commerce volumes. Australia is no exception.
Research is showing that due to social distancing, border closures and lockdowns, e-commerce spending in Australia reached USD 49 billion (EUR 49 billion) in 2021 – up from USD 38 billion in 2020. Around three-quarters of Australian businesses now earn part of their revenue from online sales. Online commerce accounts for 10 percent of Australia’s total retail trade.
For many B2C companies in Australia, this shift is highlighting the need for more efficient warehouse operations. Speeding up processing times for online deliveries is becoming vital in the race to win customers: according to PwC, 17 percent of online shoppers will abandon a brand if they face a long delivery wait.
In response, more Australian companies are embracing new digital technologies, automation, and robotics solutions in their warehouses to help them slash delivery times and offer customers faster, more flexible delivery options.
But how do such technologies work? How are they helping companies boost productivity and can they reduce the risk of warehouses acting as potential bottlenecks in an increasingly competitive e-commerce environment?
Automating to meet growing customer demand
Online shoppers set in motion a complex supply chain when they click the ‘buy’ button on a website. For the e-tailer’s warehouse or distribution center, this includes the labor-intensive picking process – that is, locating a specific item in what can be a vast space filled with hundreds of thousands of products.
Further steps involve getting an item ready for shipment. This might include packaging, sorting orders into put wall systems, and placing objects onto conveyor belts.
Efficient location mapping to identify and name all product shelving positions, work areas, and travel paths within a warehouse is key to ensuring the site can function optimally, as are systems to put away items in the right spot.
While wearable devices can help managers keep track of staff movements around a site, the human labor involved in all these steps can be time-consuming and even physically challenging. By contrast, a smart warehouse that uses intelligent software and advanced robot technology can automate many processes, saving time and reducing human error.
This can also directly benefit the bottom line: research shows that automation can increase revenue per square foot of logistics space by between 10 and 20 percent for e-commerce operations.] => 疫情爆发后，全球复杂新常态的一个标志是电子商务数量激增。澳大利亚也不例外。
研究表明，由于需要保持社交距离，加上边境关闭和管控，2021年澳大利亚的电子商务支出达到490亿美元（490亿欧元），高于2020年的380亿美元。 目前，约四分之三澳大利亚企业的部分收入来自网上销售。在线商务占澳大利亚零售贸易总额的10%。
对于澳大利亚的许多B2C公司来说，这种转变凸显了对更高效的仓库运营的需求。在赢得客户的竞争中，加快网上交货的处理时间变得至关重要：根据普华永道的数据，17%的网上购物者如果面临漫长的交货时间，就会放弃某个品牌。
作为回应，越来越多的澳大利亚公司在其仓库中采用新的数字技术、自动化和机器人技术解决方案，以帮助他们缩短交货时间，为客户提供更快、更灵活的交货选择。
但这些技术是如何运作的？它们是如何帮助公司提高生产力的？它们能否在竞争日益激烈的电子商务环境中，降低仓库成为潜在瓶颈的风险？
实现自动化以满足日益增长的客户需求
当网上购物者点击网站上的“购买”按钮时，他们就启动了一个复杂的供应链。对于电子零售商的仓库或配送中心来说，这包括劳动密集的拣选过程，即在一个充满数十万种产品的巨大空间中找到特定的商品。
接下来的步骤包括准备好要装运的物品。这可能包括包装，将订单分类放入播种墙系统，然后将物品放到传送带上。
用于识别和命名仓库内所有产品货架位置、工作区域和行进路径的高效位置映射是确保站点能够最佳运行的关键，将物品存放在正确位置的系统也是如此。
虽然可穿戴设备可以帮助管理人员追踪员工在现场的活动情况，但所有这些步骤所涉及的人力劳动可能非常耗时，甚至十分挑战体力。相比之下，使用智能软件和先进机器人技术的智能仓库可以使许多流程自动化，节省时间并减少人为错误。
这还可以让成本底线直接受益：研究表明，对于电子商务运营而言，自动化可以使每平方英尺物流空间的收入增加10%到20%。
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[How robotic picking is revolutionizing warehouse productivity] => 机器人拣货如何革新仓库生产力
[Automated warehouse robots are changing that, and DHL Supply Chain is taking full advantage.] => 自动化仓库机器人正在改变这一现状，DHL供应链正在充分利用这一优势。
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[Gaining competitive advantage with the right distribution partner] => 通过合适的分销伙伴获得竞争优势
[As Australia’s rapidly growing e-commerce market shows no sign of slowing down, DHL Supply Chain is investing AUD 150m over the next two years on automation and robotics at its Australian warehouses. This includes commissioning 1,000 new assisted picking robots by 2025.
“For Australian e-commerce retailers, transformation is necessary for survival at this point,” said Terry Ryan, CEO, DHL Supply Chain Asia Pacific. “Gaining competitive advantage means harnessing the warehousing fulfilment expertise that can allow them to offer faster delivery to their B2C customers, along with improved operational efficiency. That’s where DHL comes in. Our new solution is designed to combine robotic efficiency with human ingenuity as it helps companies accelerate their responses to changing customer demand.”] =>
由于澳大利亚快速增长的电子商务市场没有放缓的迹象，DHL供应链将在未来两年在澳大利亚仓库的自动化和机器人方面投资1.5亿澳元。其中包括到2025年启用1000个新的辅助分拣机器人。
“对于澳大利亚电子商务零售商来说，转型是目前生存所必需的，”DHL供应链亚太区首席执行官Terry Ryan表示，“获得竞争优势意味着利用仓储配送专业知识，使它们能够更快地向B2C客户交付货物，同时提高运营效率。这就是DHL的优势所在。我们的新解决方案旨在将机器人的效率与人类的创造力结合起来，帮助企业加快对不断变化的客户需求的响应。”
[An increased volume in online shopping has accelerated the need to enhance the supply chain process with efficient automation. A hallmark of the complex new normal evolving globally in the wake of the pandemic is a dramatic increase in e-commerce volumes. Australia is no exception.
Research is showing that due to social distancing, border closures and lockdowns, e-commerce spending in Australia reached USD 49 billion (EUR 49 billion) in 2021 – up from USD 38 billion in 2020. Around three-quarters of Australian businesses now earn part of their revenue from online sales. Online commerce accounts for 10 percent of Australia’s total retail trade.
For many B2C companies in Australia, this shift is highlighting the need for more efficient warehouse operations. Speeding up processing times for online deliveries is becoming vital in the race to win customers: according to PwC, 17 percent of online shoppers will abandon a brand if they face a long delivery wait.
In response, more Australian companies are embracing new digital technologies, automation, and robotics solutions in their warehouses to help them slash delivery times and offer customers faster, more flexible delivery options.
But how do such technologies work? How are they helping companies boost productivity and can they reduce the risk of warehouses acting as potential bottlenecks in an increasingly competitive e-commerce environment?
Automating to meet growing customer demand
Online shoppers set in motion a complex supply chain when they click the ‘buy’ button on a website. For the e-tailer’s warehouse or distribution center, this includes the labor-intensive picking process – that is, locating a specific item in what can be a vast space filled with hundreds of thousands of products.
Further steps involve getting an item ready for shipment. This might include packaging, sorting orders into put wall systems, and placing objects onto conveyor belts.
Efficient location mapping to identify and name all product shelving positions, work areas, and travel paths within a warehouse is key to ensuring the site can function optimally, as are systems to put away items in the right spot.
While wearable devices can help managers keep track of staff movements around a site, the human labor involved in all these steps can be time-consuming and even physically challenging. By contrast, a smart warehouse that uses intelligent software and advanced robot technology can automate many processes, saving time and reducing human error.
This can also directly benefit the bottom line: research shows that automation can increase revenue per square foot of logistics space by between 10 and 20 percent for e-commerce operations.
Gaining competitive advantage with the right distribution partner
As Australia’s rapidly growing e-commerce market shows no sign of slowing down, DHL Supply Chain is investing AUD 150m over the next two years on automation and robotics at its Australian warehouses. This includes commissioning 1,000 new assisted picking robots by 2025.
“For Australian e-commerce retailers, transformation is necessary for survival at this point,” said Terry Ryan, CEO, DHL Supply Chain Asia Pacific. “Gaining competitive advantage means harnessing the warehousing fulfilment expertise that can allow them to offer faster delivery to their B2C customers, along with improved operational efficiency. That’s where DHL comes in. Our new solution is designed to combine robotic efficiency with human ingenuity as it helps companies accelerate their responses to changing customer demand.”
How automation improves warehouse productivity
Australia’s logistics sector has been deploying solutions such as automated guided vehicles for decades. But in the last few years, innovations in autonomous driving technologies as well as new flexible picking and manipulation systems are transforming what robotics and automation can deliver in both indoor and outdoor environments.
Robotic systems are becoming easier to deploy, powered by machine learning and powerful sensors that allow them to adapt rapidly to changing environments and work safely alongside logistics teams.
Take autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for example. Once a human worker at a pick station confirms their pick on a computer screen, these small, nimble robots retrieve the item from a mobile shelf and deliver it to the station. Enabled by geo-navigation technology, the AMRs calculate optimal navigation routes as they shuttle picking carts through warehouse aisles, taking much less time than a human picker would need to walk around the space.
AMRs are also being widely deployed to help staff clean facility floors, conduct inventory counts, and carry out property mapping and surveilling.
The aim behind deploying AMRs is to enhance and provide new opportunities for the existing labor force in logistics. DHL Supply Chain, for one, is looking at more than just investing in robotics.
“These solutions will also significantly reduce our employees’ time on routine or physically demanding tasks, including heavy lifting. Such solutions allow them to have the opportunity to develop the skills to advance their careers, and work on meaningful and interesting projects,” said Steve Thompsett, Chief Executive Officer, Australia & New Zealand, DHL Supply Chain. To complement the technology upgrade, the company is also growing its Australian workforce over the next two years, on top of retraining and development opportunities to existing employees.
RELATED ARTICLESHow robotic picking is revolutionizing warehouse productivityAutomated warehouse robots are changing that, and DHL Supply Chain is taking full advantage.Joining the race to stay competitive
Already, leading online retailers in Australia are taking advantage of these innovations. Online bookseller Booktopia, for example, is aiming to increase stock by 25 percent and cut delivery times following an AUD 4.5 million investment in robotics that went live at the end of 2021.
According to a report in the Australian Financial Review, Booktopia co-founder and chief executive Tony Nash said the robotic ‘shelf stackers’, which stack books onto 4-meter-high shelves, would enable the e-tailer to increase the stock in its Lidcombe warehouse in Sydney by 200,000 to 1 million books.
Other enterprises are adopting automation technologies wholesale as they build new facilities, rather than introducing them piecemeal. Take e-tailer Kogan.com, for example, which currently has 15 third party–operated warehouses. The company is reported to be seeking a site on which to build its own automated facility, augmenting its existing distribution footprint.
Major supermarket chain Woolworths, meanwhile, has announced plans to build two new automated warehouses at Moorebank Logistics Park in Western Sydney, both projected to open in 2024. The centers will deploy robotic pickers and build tailored pallets for specific aisles in individual stores, helping to speed up restocking.
Coles is also developing two data-driven fulfillment centers in Melbourne and Sydney, scheduled to open later in 2022. The company plans to use software developed by Ocado, a UK supermarket chain that has no stores, only warehouses.
As more companies follow suit, it’s no surprise that demand for mobile robot technology is predicted to grow: some experts are forecasting that globally, one million mobile robots for warehouse automation may be required each year by 2026.
“Of course, it’s not only large organizations that can benefit from the game-changing flexibility, speed, and performance of goods-to-person automation,” pointed out Ryan. “Small to medium sized enterprises also have a great opportunity to steal a march on larger retailers that may have committed to inflexible fixed-automated systems.”
Leading the way in smart warehousing
But what does all this look like in practice? At DHL, nowhere are the benefits of automation and robotics on more prominent display than at its smart warehouse in Beringe, The Netherlands.
Encompassing 128,000 square meters of floor space and 100 loading docks, the Beringe warehouse is a hub for up to 250 inbound and outbound trucks every day. But where operations here become truly ‘smart’ is when the machinery comes to life.
For example, AMRs work alongside human staff to improve existing processes or create new ones. As the AMRs help to perform picking tasks and transport the goods away, people can spend less time on their feet moving around the warehouse.
At the same time, the warehouse is equipped with robot picking cells, where stationary robots handle picking tasks using machine vision technology. Each of these robots can recognize packages of all shapes and sizes, picking 600 items per hour, 24 hours per day. Wireless tracking technology is also to help optimize the movement of equipment and people through the warehouse.
“In the long run, the automated processes we are putting in place for our Australia warehouses, accompanied by training and certification opportunities for our employees, can help them focus on doing more sophisticated warehouse tasks best left to humans,“ said Ryan.] =>
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Already, leading online retailers in Australia are taking advantage of these innovations. Online bookseller Booktopia, for example, is aiming to increase stock by 25 percent and cut delivery times following an AUD 4.5 million investment in robotics that went live at the end of 2021.
According to a report in the Australian Financial Review, Booktopia co-founder and chief executive Tony Nash said the robotic ‘shelf stackers’, which stack books onto 4-meter-high shelves, would enable the e-tailer to increase the stock in its Lidcombe warehouse in Sydney by 200,000 to 1 million books.
Other enterprises are adopting automation technologies wholesale as they build new facilities, rather than introducing them piecemeal. Take e-tailer Kogan.com, for example, which currently has 15 third party–operated warehouses. The company is reported to be seeking a site on which to build its own automated facility, augmenting its existing distribution footprint.
Major supermarket chain Woolworths, meanwhile, has announced plans to build two new automated warehouses at Moorebank Logistics Park in Western Sydney, both projected to open in 2024. The centers will deploy robotic pickers and build tailored pallets for specific aisles in individual stores, helping to speed up restocking.
Coles is also developing two data-driven fulfillment centers in Melbourne and Sydney, scheduled to open later in 2022. The company plans to use software developed by Ocado, a UK supermarket chain that has no stores, only warehouses.
As more companies follow suit, it’s no surprise that demand for mobile robot technology is predicted to grow: some experts are forecasting that globally, one million mobile robots for warehouse automation may be required each year by 2026.
“Of course, it’s not only large organizations that can benefit from the game-changing flexibility, speed, and performance of goods-to-person automation,” pointed out Ryan. “Small to medium sized enterprises also have a great opportunity to steal a march on larger retailers that may have committed to inflexible fixed-automated systems.”
Leading the way in smart warehousing
But what does all this look like in practice? At DHL, nowhere are the benefits of automation and robotics on more prominent display than at its smart warehouse in Beringe, The Netherlands.
Encompassing 128,000 square meters of floor space and 100 loading docks, the Beringe warehouse is a hub for up to 250 inbound and outbound trucks every day. But where operations here become truly ‘smart’ is when the machinery comes to life.
For example, AMRs work alongside human staff to improve existing processes or create new ones. As the AMRs help to perform picking tasks and transport the goods away, people can spend less time on their feet moving around the warehouse.
At the same time, the warehouse is equipped with robot picking cells, where stationary robots handle picking tasks using machine vision technology. Each of these robots can recognize packages of all shapes and sizes, picking 600 items per hour, 24 hours per day. Wireless tracking technology is also to help optimize the movement of equipment and people through the warehouse.
“In the long run, the automated processes we are putting in place for our Australia warehouses, accompanied by training and certification opportunities for our employees, can help them focus on doing more sophisticated warehouse tasks best left to humans,“ said Ryan.
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但实际操作时是怎样的呢？在DHL，自动化和机器人技术的优势在其位于荷兰Beringe的智能仓库中得到了最为突出的展示。
Beringe仓库占地面积12.8万平方米，拥有100个装货码头，每天可停靠250辆进出港卡车。但是，这里的操作变得真正“智能”的地方是机器开始工作的时候。
例如，AMR与工作人员一起工作，以改善现有流程或创造新的流程。由于AMR帮助执行分拣任务并将货物运走，人们可以减少在仓库走动的时间。
同时，仓库配备了机器人分拣单元，固定式机器人利用机器视觉技术处理分拣任务。每个机器人都能识别各种形状和尺寸的包裹，每小时可拣选600件物品，每天24小时不间断。无线跟踪技术也是为了帮助优化设备和人员在仓库中的走动。
“从长远来看，我们正在为我们的澳大利亚仓库设置的自动化流程，以及为我们的员工提供的培训和认证机会，可以帮助他们专注于完成那些最好由人类完成的更复杂的仓库任务，”Ryan说。
[A hallmark of the complex new normal evolving globally in the wake of the pandemic is a dramatic increase in e-commerce volumes. Australia is no exception.
Research is showing that due to social distancing, border closures and lockdowns, e-commerce spending in Australia reached USD 49 billion (EUR 49 billion) in 2021 – up from USD 38 billion in 2020. Around three-quarters of Australian businesses now earn part of their revenue from online sales. Online commerce accounts for 10 percent of Australia’s total retail trade.
For many B2C companies in Australia, this shift is highlighting the need for more efficient warehouse operations. Speeding up processing times for online deliveries is becoming vital in the race to win customers: according to PwC, 17 percent of online shoppers will abandon a brand if they face a long delivery wait.
In response, more Australian companies are embracing new digital technologies, automation, and robotics solutions in their warehouses to help them slash delivery times and offer customers faster, more flexible delivery options.
But how do such technologies work? How are they helping companies boost productivity and can they reduce the risk of warehouses acting as potential bottlenecks in an increasingly competitive e-commerce environment?
Automating to meet growing customer demand
Online shoppers set in motion a complex supply chain when they click the ‘buy’ button on a website. For the e-tailer’s warehouse or distribution center, this includes the labor-intensive picking process – that is, locating a specific item in what can be a vast space filled with hundreds of thousands of products.
Further steps involve getting an item ready for shipment. This might include packaging, sorting orders into put wall systems, and placing objects onto conveyor belts.
Efficient location mapping to identify and name all product shelving positions, work areas, and travel paths within a warehouse is key to ensuring the site can function optimally, as are systems to put away items in the right spot.
While wearable devices can help managers keep track of staff movements around a site, the human labor involved in all these steps can be time-consuming and even physically challenging. By contrast, a smart warehouse that uses intelligent software and advanced robot technology can automate many processes, saving time and reducing human error.
This can also directly benefit the bottom line: research shows that automation can increase revenue per square foot of logistics space by between 10 and 20 percent for e-commerce operations.] => 疫情爆发后，全球复杂新常态的一个标志是电子商务数量激增。澳大利亚也不例外。
研究表明，由于需要保持社交距离，加上边境关闭和管控，2021年澳大利亚的电子商务支出达到490亿美元（490亿欧元），高于2020年的380亿美元。 目前，约四分之三澳大利亚企业的部分收入来自网上销售。在线商务占澳大利亚零售贸易总额的10%。
对于澳大利亚的许多B2C公司来说，这种转变凸显了对更高效的仓库运营的需求。在赢得客户的竞争中，加快网上交货的处理时间变得至关重要：根据普华永道的数据，17%的网上购物者如果面临漫长的交货时间，就会放弃某个品牌。
作为回应，越来越多的澳大利亚公司在其仓库中采用新的数字技术、自动化和机器人技术解决方案，以帮助他们缩短交货时间，为客户提供更快、更灵活的交货选择。
但这些技术是如何运作的？它们是如何帮助公司提高生产力的？它们能否在竞争日益激烈的电子商务环境中，降低仓库成为潜在瓶颈的风险？
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