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Push to automate pallet building prompts 3 firms to sign up
TO automate pallet building three companies have placed orders for a new robotics, says Airis International Holdings, which took the orders from PACTL and two Mideast airlines.
Shanghai ground handler PACTL will be the first to the use of robots to build general cargo pallets from this summer, reported Lloyd's Loading List.
The company has been working with logistics facilities developer Airis since last year to examine the feasibility of robot technology within air cargo pallet-building in a context of shipments of irregular size, shape and mass.
Using analysis of two years of data from PACTL and from airlines, Airis has concluded that 85-90 per cent of general air cargo shipments handled by PACTL could be processed by robots.
"What we were able to see in this particular operation was that we could save up to 60 per cent of the manpower involved in a particular operation," Airis vice president Henric Nauckhoff told the recent Nordic Air Cargo Symposium in Stockholm.
Airis has been exploring the use of robots in air cargo handling after being approached by Finnish innovation firm Ahkera, which was exploring the development of robots within passenger baggage handling.
Mr Nauckhoff said three robots working on four workstations could build 16 pallets per hour, or around 24 ULD3 containers. As well as loading the cargo, each piece is automatically weighed and dimensioned by the robot, and covered with machine-readable tags.
Shanghai ground handler PACTL will be the first to the use of robots to build general cargo pallets from this summer, reported Lloyd's Loading List.
The company has been working with logistics facilities developer Airis since last year to examine the feasibility of robot technology within air cargo pallet-building in a context of shipments of irregular size, shape and mass.
Using analysis of two years of data from PACTL and from airlines, Airis has concluded that 85-90 per cent of general air cargo shipments handled by PACTL could be processed by robots.
"What we were able to see in this particular operation was that we could save up to 60 per cent of the manpower involved in a particular operation," Airis vice president Henric Nauckhoff told the recent Nordic Air Cargo Symposium in Stockholm.
Airis has been exploring the use of robots in air cargo handling after being approached by Finnish innovation firm Ahkera, which was exploring the development of robots within passenger baggage handling.
Mr Nauckhoff said three robots working on four workstations could build 16 pallets per hour, or around 24 ULD3 containers. As well as loading the cargo, each piece is automatically weighed and dimensioned by the robot, and covered with machine-readable tags.
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