On December 2nd, Gaussy announced that it had introduced its 12D sorting robot, "Omni-Sorter," to Nakamura Logistics' Fukuoka logistics center and released an interview video detailing the results of operating the Omni-Sorter for the past six months since its launch.
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The interview video details the results the company achieved after operating the omni-sorter for six months, as well as its efforts to achieve higher productivity.
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Nakamura Logistics, a long-established international integrated logistics company with a strong focus on frozen food logistics services, particularly seafood, has supported safe and secure food consumption for over 100 years since its founding in 1919. This group of professionals specializing in frozen foods, which require a high level of expertise in temperature control, customs clearance, various legal procedures, and inspection and quarantine procedures, introduced an omni-sorter to address the worsening labor shortage at its logistics center.
With the expansion of demand for frozen foods, food distribution centers are seeing an increase in "bulk shipments," where products are shipped in small quantities according to customer orders. This places a heavy burden on manual sorting of these bulk items. Furthermore, the physically demanding working conditions, such as cold environments and nighttime shifts, make it difficult to secure and retain personnel, which also contributed to the shift towards automation.
The increasing demand for frozen foods and the labor shortage in logistics operations are creating a gap between the two. Expectations are rising for automation through the introduction of warehouse robots as a solution to bridge this gap, and automating the particularly laborious "bulk shipping" process is considered a pressing issue common to all food logistics businesses.
The Omni-Sorter is a three-dimensional sorting robot characterized by its exceptional space-saving design and automatic, high-speed sorting. With minimal installation and relocation burden, high customizability that allows it to flexibly expand or contract according to cargo volume, and the ability to handle a wide range of cargo types and shapes, from food products to e-commerce goods, it is a popular warehouse robot with over 60 units installed nationwide.
