ROEQ launches TR500 Top Roller, the Largest Conveyor Solution on the U.S. Market for Mobile Industrial Robots
By adding conveyors on top of autonomous mobile robots, ROEQ completes the automation of internal logistics, eliminating the manual loading and unloading of the robots at departure and delivery stations. At the Automate 2019 show in Chicago, the Danish company launches a unique new conveyor top module for MiR500, the largest model from Mobile Industrial Robots.
Real efficiency in logistics automation is achieved when the entire workflow is handled by robotics solutions that communicate smoothly with each other. That’s the vision behind ROEQ’s new TR500 Top Roller that automates load and unload operations of the MiR500, the largest and most powerful autonomous mobile robot from Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR). The TR500 is launching at ROEQ’s booth 8459 at the Automate 2019 show held in Chicago April 8-11. First day of the show, ROEQ will also debut another new module.
“A mobile robot without a conveyor or top module is like a robot arm without a gripper,” says Peder Grejsen, technical sales manager for ROEQ. “Production throughput can be greatly improved when mobile robots are outfitted with intelligent top modules that self-load and unload.” The TR500 accommodates U.S. pallets and can be delivered with a fully automated lifter functionality for pick-up and delivery of goods in heights ranging from 23.6 inches (600mm) to 29.5 inches (750mm). The Top Roller integrates seamlessly in MiR’s own user interface where all control functions are embedded; when the robot is called to deliver or pick up goods, the conveyor communicates with the pick-up and delivery stations and will automatically activate the loading or unloading upon arrival.
“By targeting the loading and unloading of mobile robots, we are addressing that missing link in the automated logistics cycle that today is handled either by fork or pallet lifters or manually by employees,” says Grejsen. “Adding the conveyor capability strengthens the employees’ work environment by taking over ergonomically unfavorable tasks or by reducing truck traffic and noise.”
Chief Strategy Officer at MiR, Niels Jul Jacobsen, welcomes the TR500 into the company’s partner ecosystem. “With the TR500, ROEQ is offering a valuable new product that greatly enhances the MiR500’s capabilities,” he says. “Addressing U.S. pallet sizes while also offering adjustable height functionality are unique new features that differentiates ROEQ’s new top modules from existing solutions. We’re excited to see this launch in North America.”
ROEQ is rapidly expanding its North American distributor network, representing ROEQ in the mid- Atlantic region is the Knotts Company where sales manager, Mark Howe sees a huge potential in outfitting MiR500s with conveyor functions. “Being able to handle 500 kg payload on mobile conveyors opens doors into new types of customers,” he says, mentioning material handling industries and distribution centers. “We can now also focus on customers that handle large bulk material that needs transport between warehouse and manufacturing floors. We’re already seeing a significant demand for ROEQ’s smaller top modules and we expect the TR500 to be equally well received.”
The TR500 also eliminates the need for dedicated pallet stands adds Cale Harbour, vice president of product marketing at Advanced Control Solutions, ROEQ’s distribution partner in the Southeastern U.S. “For customers with space restraints, this can make a big difference,” he says. “In our region we see this product as a perfect fit for automotive and carpet manufacturing industries with many internal logistics tasks that can now be automated. It’s a new emerging technology that has really taken off in the last year and a half.”
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