NūMove’s Montreal Innovation Hub!
NūMove is currently transforming its new 20,000 ft² space located in Anjou (Montreal) into a true innovation hub for warehouse automation technologies. Valued at over 2 million Canadian dollars, the NūMove Center of Excellence is gradually housing a complete automation line. It replicates the journey of various products in warehouses and distribution centers. Many of our automation solutions are showcased here: from robotic depalletizing of complete pallets, to automated storage and retrieval of products, to the final mixed palletizing of orders to be shipped.
Why investing in a Center of Excellence?
✔ Showroom for our warehouse solutions
✔ Customer visits & product demonstrations on request
✔ In-house testing & Innovation
A Large-Scale Project Unique in Quebec in the Field of Automated Warehousing!
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Robotic Mixed Palletizing
NūBotik MixPal
The NūMove Center of Excellence showcases our multi-SKU robotic palletizing solution, NūBotik MixPal, which features a robot on a 12-foot-high platform with an integrated wrapper. This is a highly attractive solution for warehouses and distribution centers, especially well suited to food and beverage products.
- ✓ This mixed palletizer can reach speeds up to 800 products per hour.
- ✓ Occupying minimal floor space, additional units can easily be added as production volumes increase.
- ✓ An advanced software is used to optimize mixed pallets, taking into account customer constraints and various stacking rules such as product type, dimensions, density, weight, crushability, etc.
Floor-Level Palletizing
The Center of Excellence is also home to a second robotized palletizing system. This is a floor-level cell with an interchangeable robot tool, demonstrating the length of our expertise in end-of-line palletizing and warehouse automation technologies.
- ✓ We are able to offer mixed palletizing at a variety of speeds, either with our fork robot tool, which handles several products per layer, or with our other fork robot tool, which handles products individually.
- ✓ If required, we also have the option of demonstrating single SKU palletizing by layer, an automation solution aimed more at manufacturers than warehouses and distribution centers.
InnoPick®
We are also exhibiting a compact version of our InnoPick® solution in the Centre of Excellence. This is a product storage and sequencing system (ASRS). This automation system guarantees efficient management of warehouse flows. Products are stored, and when an order needs to be prepared, InnoPick® delivers the products to the palletizing station in an sequence predetermined by a software.
- ✓ In real scenarios, this case ASRS can be up to 9 levels high.
- ✓ In terms of capacity, the total number of products entering and leaving each level is 1400 per hour.
Robotic Depalletizing
At the entrance of distribution centers, pallets of products from manufacturers must be depalletized before the products can be moved to storage. This is where robotized depalletizing comes in! Although NūMove has designed several depalletizing robotic tools, our Centre of Excellence presents a depalletizing robot that handles products per layer. Such an automation system can reach a throughput of up to 4 layers per minute.
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