Description

1. Suitable for narrow aisle applications, enhancing warehouse density: The F4-1000C allows the stacking aisle width of standard pallets (1000 mm x 1200 mm) to be 2052 mm. Along with its compact size, it runs nimbly in narrow aisles and greatly improves warehouse utilization rate.
2. Strong Performance, Compact Size & Large Load Capacity: By docking with the intelligent warehouse management system, the 1.0-ton compact-sized F4-1000C effectively reduces the number of material handling times and greatly improves warehouse operation efficiency.
3. Multiple Safety Protection & Reliable Performance: The F4-1000C is equipped with multiple safety protections, such as an obstacle detection laser, emergency stop button, etc., to ensure the safety of human-machine collaboration. In addition, it is fully certified by CE.

Innovations

When designing a traditional forklift or warehouse truck, the driving space of the operator must be taken into consideration. Therefore, the overall size of a traditional warehouse truck is large, and it requires large areas to work on. As autonomous forklifts are gradually used to handle pallets or racks in warehouses, Hikrobot has developed a compact-sized forklift mobile robot with a chassis of only 400 mm that can fit into narrow aisles and maximize field utilization.

• Lifting accuracy: ±2 mm: The FMR can autonomously lift and move racks/pallets to a preset destination.
• Afterwards, the FMR’s forks can be safely retracted.
• Positioning accuracy: ±5 mm: The FMR can stop precisely at a preset position.
• Multi-FMR consistency: ±10 mm: Multiple FMRs can work together to repeatedly lift and lower preset pallets.
• Flexibility in visual recognition: ±5 mm: The FMR can recognize different pallets with different materials and colors.

Market relevance

Same as traditional warehouse trucks or forklifts, autonomous stackers are designed for material handling tasks in warehouses with high racks, loading and unloading docks, along production lines for the automotive, manufacturing, logistics, new energy, tobacco and other industries.

The F4-1000C is one of the autonomous warehouse trucks specially designed for narrow aisle applications with compact size. Compared with other autonomous warehouse trucks on the market, it requires less operation space, which greatly improves the storage capacity for vertical warehouses. As for applications in the manufacturing industry, it adapts to various scenarios and seamlessly docks with equipment in WIT warehouses, such as conveyors, elevators, etc.

Together with the self-developed intelligent warehouse management system (iWMS) and robot control system (RCS), the F4-1000C helps manufacturers/retailers to standardize production and improve warehouse management. With an intuitive interface, the iWMS effectively reduces return rates with high picking accuracy of up to 99.99%. It seamlessly docks with customers’ upper-level systems and enables order picking optimization with intelligent algorithms, such as smart batching and SKU velocity management. The RCS performs cluster control, traffic control and route optimization for multiple mobile robots such as the F4-1000C.

In addition, the gig economy and labor shortage make it difficult for warehouses to find experienced forklift operators in the market. Increasing orders and higher throughput mean that 7/24 operations are required in warehouses and workshops. Operators must work shifts to keep up with demand. Compared to manual warehouse trucks, our F4-1000C is easy to operate and requires little learning. Equipped with 360° safety protection and intelligent obstacle avoidance, it is safe enough for operators to work with.

With all the benefits that autonomous warehouse trucks bring and continuous optimization, more potential users will choose to automate their warehouses in the future.

Customer benefits

Automobile industry A

• The F4-1000C is perfect for narrow aisle applications to provide highly efficient material handling that adapts to aisle widths as narrow as 2050 mm.
• The F4-1000C is an alternative to manual warehouse trucks, greatly improving production efficiency and keeping pace with fast-paced automated production.
• The F4-1000C connects with the tasks of other FMRs to assign the pre-assigned task and plans the path based on the judgement of the movements of other FMRs. In this way, orderly avoidance of multiple FMRs and highly efficient operation of multiple FMRs can be realized.

Automobile industry B

• The F4-1000C moves nearly 40 types of supplier incoming carriers from the WIT warehouse to the conveyor lines.
• The F4-1000C precisely docks with roller conveyors in the finished product warehouse, and the rack and pallet placement accuracy on one side can be as accurate as 20mm.
• The F4-1000C recognizes more than 60 types of pallets in a vertical warehouse and plans the rack placement independently by visual recognition.
• The F4-1000C reduces the labor intensity of intralogistics staff and helps companies automate warehouses by improving smart manufacturing capability with a high ROI of 1 to 2 years. The compact F4-100C for high-density warehouses significantly improves space productivity and increases storage capacity by at least 30%.