DALLAS, July 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The North American
Parcel Logistics business of Körber, a leading global technology
group headquartered in Hamburg,
Germany, recently completed a large-scale, multi-year
upgrade project on their Visicon Polaris machine fleet for a major
multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management
client headquartered in the US. The project, which began in
January 2023, involved over 100
Körber engineering employees and technicians who upgraded 379
Visicon Polaris singulator machines across North America, resulting in a 73% reduction in
machine downtime for the customer.
Körber's fully automated Visicon Polaris is designed to quickly
place large volumes of packages of all shapes and sizes in single
file, thereby enabling the packages to be efficiently scanned,
weighed, and sorted further down the process chain. It boasts the
highest throughput on the market with variable transport speeds,
along with an AI-based vision system that enables end users to
track packages and to flag, pinpoint, and quickly address issues,
resulting in drastically reduced machine downtime.
"These machines are operating—around the clock in some cases—in
very high intensity environments: The facilities they're placed in
can get very hot in the summer and freezing cold in the winter, so
this upgrade project was designed to ensure that the Visicon
Polaris would withstand these conditions, while also empowering the
employees who operate and maintain them to quickly pinpoint and
address issues," said Thomas Worthy,
Project Lead, Parcel Logistics North America, Körber Business Area
Supply Chain.
"Another key feature of this upgrade project is that it has
vastly simplified the process to replace machine parts, eliminating
the need for re-programming and therefore making it more plug and
play for the end user," said Todd
Henry, Vice President of Operations, Parcel Logistics North
America, Business Area Supply Chain. "We seek to build authentic,
long-term relationships with our clients, whom we view as partners.
This project was about working closely with our customer to develop
a win-win solution that would generate significant cost savings for
them, as well as make it easier for the employees who operate and
maintain these machines day in and day out," Henry added.
About Körber
We are Körber – an international
technology group with more than 12,000 employees at over 100
locations worldwide with a common goal: We turn entrepreneurial
thinking into customer success and shape technological change. In
the Business Areas Digital, Pharma, Supply Chain, and Technologies,
we offer products, solutions and services that inspire. We act fast
to customer needs, we execute ideas seamlessly, and with our
innovations we create added value for our customers. In doing so,
we are increasingly building on ecosystems that solve the
challenges of today and tomorrow. Körber AG is the holding company
of the Körber Group. To learn more about Körber, visit
https://www.koerber.com/en/.
Contact:
Hanna Nayak,
Marketing & Communications Manager, (972) 310-1166,
hanna.nayak@koerber.com
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