According to a recent research report by ABI Research, it is predicted that by 2025, more than 4 million commercial robots will be installed in 50,000 warehouses. This includes a range of industries, from ecommerce and manufacturing to hotels and restaurants. As orders continue to put stress on warehouse operators, businesses are investing in both extra labor and automation to increase efficiency.

Fortunately, there is a solution that can help businesses reduce trips by 30-80% and double productivity using simple Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) or Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) solutions. These solutions can minimize no value-added walks and maximize productivity, providing critical labor productivity gains in an environment of fierce competition and rising costs.

In a tough labor market, where businesses are struggling to hire and retain workers while balancing costs and benefits, AMRs and AGVs can be a cost-effective solution that doesn't require ongoing employment costs. Unlike human workers, these robots can be easily scaled up or down as needed.

For example, let's consider the simple use case of using autonomous mobile robots to automate the process of moving goods within a warehouse. By implementing AMRs or AGVs, businesses can easily increase enterprise productivity, save time and resources, and gather data for further optimization and scaling.

In fact, studies have shown that these solutions can reduce travel time by up to 80%, increase efficiency by up to 200%, and reduce operating costs by up to 50%. It's no wonder that businesses are turning to AMRs and AGVs to optimize their operations and stay competitive.

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Use case
Moving products from point A to point B, using the example of a manufacturing enterprise producing autonomous mobile robots (ironically, such enterprises also need automation).

Let's imagine that the enterprise has a sheet metal processing workshop, laser cutting, cleaning, bending and, possibly, a few more operations. Of course, this enterprise has carried out several iterations of optimising the location of the shops and the sequence of operations according to the Lean methodology. That is why the painting shop is only 30 m and almost in a straight line from this metal processing shop.
Thus, the next operation is painting and the parts will follow exactly there, suppose that the workshop is intensively loaded and earlier the worker transported the parts in portions of 100 kg by the trolley (cart) using his muscular efforts. At the same time, the average speed of such movement is approximately 1 m/s (3.6 km / h) and it takes about 30 seconds for a cart and a muscular worker (labourer) to overcome 30 m and about the same for the way back.

This used to be the case, however, after the employee pulled his back yet again and the production line began to lose productivity, the wise owner decided to do a simple experiment. The owner suggested to the employees (they worked in two shifts of 8 hours with a break for lunch) that they no longer do this traumatic, difficult, not value added work, but they are going to learning courses to learn how to do specific professional work. And for the transportation of goods, the simplest and inexpensive AMRs will be used. 

Note that we are considering a case where you can use your AMR as easy as a vacuum cleaner out of the box, using a clear simple user interface without WMS integration, any development, on-site testing and deployment or training. Indeed, the latest trend in the market is the simplification of the implementation and operation of industrial robots, including the reduction in the cost of the robot, the transition to modular elements to simplify maintenance.

The picture below shows the user interface, which allows you to easily and intuitively set up the robot and start working on the simplest user case described above.