High turnover rates also in the logistics sector
In recent years, and particularly in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of workers deciding to leave their jobs in Europe and the US has increased. The logistics sector has also been affected, witnessing staff turnover at high rates. To cope with this situation, there has been an increasing focus on automated solutions to support the manual work of operators and the warehouse management.
In this context thewarehouse automation was an alternative way of attracting new staff and making the tasks performed by employees less physically demanding, thus discouraging them from leaving their roles in the warehouse.
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Automated warehouse: the man-machine relationship as a winning solution
The general tendency of workers is to seek professional satisfaction and growth that makes them feel valued. Repetitive and standardised activities can therefore be boring, negatively influencing the work of the individual, who does not recognise himself in the activities he is called upon to perform and completely loses ambition, causing a sense of frustration to prevail.
In these cases, automating certain operations, and thus thinking of a warehouse reorganisation logistics, is proposed as a possible solution to find the right approach to work by involving the employee in the performance of his or her tasks. Performing services in a hybrid manner thus including the man-machine approach that supports a sense of co-operation within the warehouse would lead the operator to achieve better results, especially in the face of the significant workloads resulting from e-commerce and seasonal peak periods.
Elements that a warehouse manager should take into account when making warehouse logistics choices:
Coordinate your work and managing a warehouse with automated solutions requires specific professional skills. Otherwise, dedicated training sessions must be implemented to ensure productive collaboration. For example, knowing how to manage the interaction between different information systems (e.g. websites, management software, WMS, etc.) is effective. At a time when the workforce has high fluctuation rates, finding alternative ways of attracting talent, especially at times of peak demand, is crucial in logistics.
In the reorganisation of the warehouse, logistics managers should create a balance in the allocation of tasks to operators and robotic systems, tracing strengths and thoroughly understanding how to distribute the workload in order to optimising the warehouse and the procedures carried out within it. The different solutions include both the industrial robots that the so-calledco-bot', collaborative robots. Thanks to their ability to interact with human operators and to adapt to different work contexts, cobots are becoming more and more common in the automated warehouses. Industrial robots or the AGVinstead, are often used in the warehouse management in repetitive and standardised activities, such as transport and heavy load handling. In both cases, the aim is to optimising the warehouse and thus increase the efficiency of logistics operations, minimise human error, and focus operators' skills on higher value-added operations. I industrial robots, therefore, are generally used to perform repetitive tasks in order to Replace the manual labor of the operator, through the collection of data information in real time, while the co-bot, on the other hand, have the characteristic of support the work of operators and have the characteristic of versatility and autonomous operation.
It is important that operators understand how robotic solutions in the warehouse logistics can be a strength because, through their use, greater traceability of operations and goods, better management of workloads, increased safety and even physical help in carrying out operations are possible.
Skypod by Exotec, our solution
One of the ideal solutions for a better organizzazione of one's own warehouse to support the work of the operators, is the Skypod by Exotec. Its technology maximises operator productivity: the stations are ergonomic and can reach up to 400 lines per hour, with the possibility of increasing picking capacity by adding robots to the system.
The system can be easily dimensioned within its own goods warehouse to meet daily business needs, with the possibility of hiring robots to cope with seasonal peaks.
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