Robotics: On a case-by-case basis

摘要

For several years now, industrial robot iers have worked to penetrate warehousing and distribution applica-tions like palletizing, picking and case handling. Early missteps resulted from poor pairings, where a robot proven in a production environment struggled with order fulfillment, or specialized control software synced up awkwardly with existing systems, or robots were introduced as a cure-all without appreciation for their impact on upstream and downstream processes. In other cases, the justification for investment didn't hold up over time, or simply wasn't there to begin with.