Kiva Mobile Robots & Automated Order Fulfillment

Mobile Robots are the future of Automated Order Fulfillment. Bastian offers the best foot forward with these great solutions

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Whether you are replenishing your inventory, picking split case items, or delivering completed orders to loading docks, the Kiva Family of mobile robots has you covered every step of the way. The Kiva CaseFetch™ delivers full pallets of product to replenishment stations or full case picking areas. The Kiva ItemFetch™ is perfect for split case picking applications where the worker never moves from his or her pick station. The Kiva OrderFetch™ then takes completed orders and delivers them to the appropriate loading dock when the truck is ready to receive then utilizing a "Pull" system of sortation. With a complete Kiva mobile robot solution, your warehouse will be modular, fully flexible for future needs, and typically have three times the productivity of a traditional system.

Featured Mobile Robots
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Mobile Robots Benefits
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Featured Mobile Robots

Kiva CaseFetch™ Mobile Robot

The Kiva CaseFetch™ system allows workers to replenish inventory or build mixed case orders ready for shipment. The system uses Kiva mobile robots to delivery full cases of product directly to the picker, reducing the dock-to-stock cycle time, worker travel, all while tripling case order picking productivity.

Kiva ItemFetch™ Mobile Robot

The Kiva ItemFetch™ automated order picking system delivers product directly to order pack stations. Once the Kiva mobile robot arrives at its proper destination, a worker picks the items needed, indicates the pick was complete, and the next mobile robot moves into position to be picked. The Kiva ItemFetch™ system triples order picking productivity, reduces cycle times, and can be installed in a matter of weeks. Perfect for split case picking.

Kiva OrderFetch™ Mobile Robot

The Kiva OrderFetch™ sortation system delivers completed orders to the appropriate dock doors when needed. As trucks arrive, the Kiva mobile robots are ready to be unloaded, reducing the variance in truck loading times. Being a modular system, expansion or reconfiguration to the Kiva OrderFetch™ system is very easy and can cost up to 80% less than a traditional sortation system.

Kiva Mobile Fulfillment Components

Mobile Robot Drive Units
Custom Shelves or Rack (Pods)
Workstations that have Pick-to-Light devices
Operator
Infrastucture
- Servers
- Wireless Networks
- Software Interface
- Mobile Drive Unit Charging Stations

Mobile Robot Benefits Include:

Mobile / Modular Architecture

All Kiva equipment is mobile and modular, making it easy to expand or reconfigure an area. Simply add inventory pods and drive units to increase throughput during peak season or expand an existing facility as the market grows.

High Volume Order Picking

100,000’s of lines per day can be picked in a single facility that uses the Kiva mobile robot automated order fulfillment system

Simultaneous Picking and Replenishment

As products are picked, Kiva mobile robots know to go and replenish the stock that is available, reducing the work needed to replenish forward pick faces.

Productivity Monitoring

As operators perform their duties, the system tracks the numbers of lines picked.

Adapts to Worker Attributes

An intelligent system can route orders to specific operators based on their performance or physical needs. This means that your fast moving or large orders are sent to your fastest pickers. Just another way of getting orders out the door in the least amount of time.

Adjusts to Product Changes

As product velocity changes, like seasonal items, they are placed near workers. This zero re-slotting continuously takes place so your system is always optimized for the fastest movers.

“Pull” Material Flow

When shipping product, as trucks arrive to receive the shipments, the Kiva mobile robots spring into action delivering the proper orders as they are needed.

Mobile Robot Features

Mobile Infrastructure

Unlike conveyor systems, the Kiva mobile robot systems can be easily configured to accept new products, or market demands

Integration

CaseFetch™, ItemFetch™, and OrderFetch™ all integrate into each other to form a complete Kiva Distribution System

Multi-level Storage

Kiva Mobile Robots can interface with other pieces of automation including vertical lifts to gain access to mezzanine storage areas

Fast Picking

On average, a picker is presented with a new pick face every 6 seconds without ever take more than a few steps

Rapid Installation

All you need is clean, smooth concrete or a mezzanine and a few 120V outlets and installation can be done in a day depending on system size

High Storage Density

Utilize near a 100% of your floor or mezzanine space for product storage or staging. There is no need for fork truck lanes that reduce storage space

High Reliability

Since a fleet of mobile robots are used to support the Kiva Automated Order Fulfillment system, if one robot goes down the system will be able to recover with out any downtime.