Staff shortage leads to more automation

The growing staff shortage within the logistics sector across Europe drives the need for automation.

Indeed, the pandemic and the economic and social situations have led to a shrinking labor pool for many organizations. It is believed that this workforce crisis will keep going in the long term. This decrease in staff in any traditional warehouse then puts a lot of strain on the existing employees and makes the job even less appealing to potential new recruits. This is why organisations are now looking for new ways of delivering the service by switching to automation.

Hence, a rising number of Europe’s warehouse and distribution center operators are starting to consider driverless forklift truck technology as the main option. This solution could also mean reduced damage to goods, racking, and trucks, greater picking accuracy, and more efficient use of the available storage space.

This technology will be using a vehicle-mounted camera to sense the environment in which the vehicle is operating. The visual navigation system will then match with real-time images received from the camera to navigate the forklifts safely around the store. By doing so, the trucks can go to their destination quicker and improve their performance.

Moreover, this visual navigation technology allows driverless industrial trucks to be adopted with minimal disruption to a site’s existing intralogistics process, and, to achieve ROI between 18-24 months.

 

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