ABB is responding to the growing consumer demand for choice and fast delivery with the launch of its FlexBuffer™ application cell. FlexBuffer brings new levels of flexibility for logistics, food and beverage, healthcare, consumer packaged goods, restaurants and retailers, offering a highly adaptable multi-functional solution for handling a variety of tasks such as sequencing, buffering, storage and order consolidation.
“The constantly changing nature of today’s consumer landscape and the explosion of ecommerce is challenging the conventional systems used for processing and delivering orders,” says Marc Segura, Group Senior Vice President Managing Director Consumer Segments & Service Robotics at ABB. “The FlexBuffer helps our customers meet these challenges by bringing automated storage and retrieval and goods sequencing to all facilities. Now, any size operation, from large stores to small pharmacies can achieve maximum efficiency in handling a wide range of items. With FlexBuffer, our customers will have the flexibility to store and retrieve goods as they want, in any sequence to suit their operation and customers’ needs, as well as the ability to quickly scale up their operations if required.”
Operators across multiple industries are facing a range of challenges in meeting consumer expectations for faster delivery of an expanding range of goods, including labor shortages and the need to provide direct-to-consumer (D2C) delivery services in a flexible, fast manner. Automated goods handling is the key to solving these challenges, yet most systems available today are large, expensive to install, and lack the flexibility to provide the buffering and order sequencing capabilities that companies need.
FlexBuffer answers these challenges.
Product page: https://new.abb.com/products/robotics/application-cells/flexbuffer
