L&S Engineers - Hikrobot G2P Solution Double the Working Efficiency

Founded in 1971, L&S Engineers is one of the leading suppliers of spare parts and consumables to the plant hire and construction industries in the UK. With 30,000 SKUs and 50,000 bins on 650 racks to sort, operators in L&S Engineers need to pick over 1,100 order lines at one single workstation in an 8 hour shift and walk over 20 miles per day to handle the picking tasks.

Background:

Founded in 1971, L&S Engineers is one of the leading suppliers of spare parts and consumables to the plant hire and construction industries in the UK. With 30,000 SKUs and 50,000 bins on 650 racks to sort, operators in L&S Engineers need to pick over 1,100 order lines at one single workstation in an 8 hour shift and walk over 20 miles per day to handle the picking tasks.

Solution:

To make picking easier, reduce the pick error rate and improve the daily throughput, 40 AMRs was deployed to L&S Engineers and helped them transform the operation. The Goods-to-Person solution is flexible enough to suit the future growth and expansion of the customer by adding racks, workstations or robots.

Benefit:

- Double the daily throughput

- Reduce the pick error by 50%

- Support scalable deployment according to needs

- Lower the work strength and ease the operation: walking miles reduced from 20 to 0