(Schreiner Pro Tech: Oberschleissheim, Germany) -- Schreiner ProTech, a Germany-based global leader in developing and manufacturing innovative functional labels for automotive and engineering-based industries, has collaborated with electronics logistics provider ifm to develop a functional product marking system compatible with ifm’s team of retrieval robots.

Schreiner ProTech’s DistaFerr ESD LongRange labels enable ifm’s crew of driverless automated mobile robots (AMRs) to quickly and accurately find, deliver, and digitally track products at its cavernous facility in Tettnang, Germany.

For ifm, it is critical that its AMRs work efficiently when locating an item or finding its intended intrafacility destination. Each AMR travels approximately 30 kilometers per day, placing emphasis not only on finding and transporting the correct item but doing so with the least-possible lag time. At each stop, an AMR passes a special rack system—a type of gate—where the scheduled container can be dropped off and a new one picked up. Information on where and when to deliver an item is conveyed digitally, lending to optimal capacity utilization.

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