Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

In the scorching sun in Shanghai in July, the Hema Shanghai supply chain Operation Center in Hangtou Town, Pudong, is busy. As the fresh supply hub of Hema in Shanghai, Hema Shanghai supply chain Operation Center not only directly serves hundreds of stores of different formats in Hema Shanghai, but also radiates Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Hefei and other eastern China. However, unlike the crowded and sweaty scene of the general logistics storage park, the state of the staff here is obviously "relaxed" a lot. The reason is that automation helps employees share the pressure and improve efficiency.

The reporter learned that Hema Shanghai supply chain Operation Center was fully put into production in July. This is not only the single project with the largest area, the highest science and technology content and the largest investment, but also the first fully automated park. In order to improve the efficiency of the supply chain and ensure the efficient delivery of stores, a series of logistics automation equipment have been deployed in cooperation with Cainiao logistics technology. WCS automatic control system, intelligent AI algorithm, AGV intelligent robot, manipulator, cross-belt sorting machine and so on are all used in the center. Combined with 5G, Internet of things IoT and block chain technology, the whole link is automated and digitized.

The reporter saw at the scene that a set of AGV intelligent robots carrying material boxes automatically sent the goods to the warehouse distribution workstation, and the staff could complete the picking work in the workstation. Xie Lingling, a Cainiao logistics technology worker, told reporters that Cainiao provided a total of 200 AGV intelligent robots for the Hema Shanghai supply chain Operation Center to upgrade the commodity selection mode from "people looking for goods" to "goods looking for people".

"in the traditional mode of operation, sorters are often required to look for goods back and forth in the warehouse with picking orders. A picker can often take 10,000 or 20,000 steps a day. Now the AGV intelligent robot automatically delivers the goods to the picker, greatly reducing the pressure on the staff." According to Xie Lingling, from the scale point of view, a single deployment of 200 AGV intelligent robots, has been in the forefront of the industry. In order for such a number of AGV intelligent robots to run methodically in a sorting area of 3000 square meters, a "smart brain" is needed to direct and dispatch. In this regard, rookie WCS automatic control system, intelligent AI algorithm (RCS 3.0) and other self-developed products have played an important role.

According to reports, Cainiao WCS automatic control system has the ability of mainstream manufacturers and mainstream equipment types unified access to the dispatching system, can control more than 20 types of automation equipment, has the ability to dispatch more than 1000 AGV in a single warehouse, and can effectively solve automation application problems such as multi-equipment, multi-factory, complex coordination, and high difficulty in management. Intelligent AI algorithm (RCS 3.0), which has the functions of task balance, dynamic task cancellation and reassignment, MAPF optimization, queuing area arrangement, topology map optimization and so on, can plan the optimal vehicle path and make people, vehicles and goods cooperate smoothly and efficiently.

Relying on the experience of products and projects including WCS, Cainiao Logistics Technology continues to export automation solutions to customers at home and abroad, and related cooperation creates good social and economic value. Take Hema Shanghai supply chain Center as an example, AGV intelligent robots, manipulators, cross-belt sorting machines and other automation equipment cooperate with each other, and with the help of Ali Yun's computing power, it has achieved a daily sorting capacity of more than 2.8 million copies, effectively promoting the storage, operation and management of Hema into full automation.

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