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Swisslog, a warehouse automation company, has received a major order from Ikea Supply in Malaysia.
The contract is valued at approximately €43 million.
The project comprises of 215,000 pallet locations of clad-rack, 21 warehouse pallet stacker cranes Vectura, the pallet conveyor system ProMove, the electric Monorail System and the core of the system, the Swisslog software SynQ.
[Read more…] about Swisslog wins major order from Ikea in MalaysiaThyssenKrupp, one of the world’s leading suppliers of elevators and escalators, says it has completed its “biggest ever” contract in Sweden.
The work involved the iconic Urban Escape project in Stockholm.
ThyssenKrupp was asked to supply 53 elevators, 27 escalators and 15 platform lifts for the project.
[Read more…] about ThyssenKrupp completes its ‘biggest ever’ automated mobility contractDHL has invested in four new Sawyer robots in order to evaluate the solution as part of its robotics research and development programme.
The company describes the purchase of the Sawyer robots as “the first step” in its robotics deployment journey.
DHL says the collaborative robots will be flexibly used across its 19 contract packing, or “co-packing”, and production logistics centres across the UK and Ireland region. [Read more…] about DHL invests in four new Sawyer collaborative robots from Rethink Robotics
The robotics division of Kuka has received what the company describes as “a major new order in the double-digit million euro range” from a German premium car manufacturer.
The framework agreement with the Daimler encompasses the supply of multiple industrial robots of the KR Quantec generation and the integrated KR C4 controller, as well as robots from the KR Fortec heavy-duty series.
The robots will be used primarily for joining and handling applications in body-in-white production. [Read more…] about Daimler orders millions of dollars worth of industrial robotics tech from Kuka
