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ABB at the moment formally opened its new Robotics Packaging and Logistics Headquarters, positioned north of Atlanta in Alpharetta, Georgia. The brand new facility will function ABB‘s devoted middle for robotic automation options within the logistics and packaging industries.
“We’re delighted to open our new Robotics Packaging and Logistics Headquarters in Higher Atlanta, residence to a few of the world’s largest packaging and logistics corporations,” stated Sami Atiya, president, robotics & discrete automation at ABB. “With international megatrends together with direct-to-consumer commerce and labor shortages driving demand for robots as corporations look to maneuver their operations nearer to residence, there’s a rising demand for devoted help and experience from our U.S. packaging and logistics prospects. Our new facility, supported by our manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan, will assist us meet this want by offering our prospects with the most recent, AI-enabled robotic options that enhance their flexibility and productiveness, whereas strengthening their resilience and skill to function extra sustainably.”
With a few of the world’s largest packaging and logistics corporations primarily based in and round Atlanta, the ability will function a hub for collaboration between ABB and its prospects and integration companions. Collectively, this ecosystem will design and develop the subsequent technology of AI-enabled robots to remodel the packaging and logistics business and assist US corporations meet new demand, construct resilience and stay aggressive. Coaching will even be obtainable for ABB workers, prospects, and integrators to assist them develop the abilities wanted to program, function and keep robots in logistics and packaging purposes.
As a part of a wider $22 million funding by ABB Robotics within the U.S. that can create greater than 70 jobs, that is the most recent specialist robotics middle devoted to growing new options, merchandise and applied sciences. It is going to function alongside the corporate’s Lifesciences and Healthcare Lab in Houston, Texas, ABB Robotics’ manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan and the ABB Robotics Analysis and Improvement lab in San Jose, California. The funding furthers ABB’s dedication to addressing the growing demand for automation within the U.S. as extra corporations search to re-shore their manufacturing and distribution operations. North America is already the second-largest marketplace for new robotic installations with 41,000 robots put in throughout the U.S. in 2022.
“The rising expectation of shoppers for larger selection and sooner supply is inflicting corporations to have a look at extra versatile and environment friendly methods to provide and distribute their merchandise. On the identical time, a rising labor scarcity is hampering their capability to make the mandatory adjustments, significantly with regards to assembly the calls for of Omni-channel distribution,” stated Daniel Navarro, Managing Director for Client Segments & Service Robotics at ABB Robotics. “Smarter automation and AI-enabled robots might help to deal with this problem and energize the adjustments society calls for. From collaborative options which can be straightforward to program and deploy, to 3D imaginative and prescient expertise that may acknowledge and kind objects or navigate warehouses autonomously, ABB’s robotic automation options present a versatile end-to-end providing that may assist corporations to fulfill buyer expectations whereas using their current workforces extra successfully.”
With 40% of U.S. transportation and logistics corporations missing employees to hold out low-skilled handbook duties, options like ABB’s household of autonomous cellular robots with Visible SLAM expertise or AI-enabled Robotic Merchandise Picker might help corporations overcome labor and abilities shortages. Able to making clever selections in dynamic environments, these options can tackle boring, soiled and generally harmful duties to free folks to do extra rewarding work.
ABB’s new Packaging & Logistics Headquarters in Atlanta follows the corporate’s funding within the enlargement of its Auburn Hills manufacturing facility in Michigan, strengthening ABB’s presence in one in all its largest and most essential markets. The investments made by ABB Robotics is a part of roughly $170 million that ABB is investing throughout its companies to speed up its progress technique in the US.
Official opening of ABB’s U.S. Packaging and Logistics with (from left to proper) Daniel Navarro, ABB Robotics, Managing Director for Client Segments & Service Robotics; John Bubnikovich, ABB Robotics Division President, U.S.; Sami Atiya, ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation Division President; Ali Raja, ABB Robotics VP Client Segments, U.S.