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Follow on Google News | Seegrid Vision-Guided Pallet Trucks Prove a Food Safety Value PropositionSeegrid Vision-Guided Pallet Trucks Prove a Food Safety Value Proposition
By: TRCutler Seegrid is now poised as a leader in the $38 billion forklift market. Founded in 2003, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Seegrid Corp. brings robotic vision-guided technology to the material handling within the food manufacturing and food distribution industry. With more than thirty years of innovation and research by the leading robotic scientists, engineers, programmers and logistics practitioners worldwide. Seegrid’ Friedman recently shared how the vision system works, “The vision system works by creating a 3-D grid, actually an Occupancy Grid, which is a machine vision technique invented by Seegrid’s co-founder, Hans Moravec. That is why our company is named Seegrid. It is a pun on "see the grid". The system lets the robot know where it is located on the grid, localization. It is not designed for object recognition, but can customize the unit and add that capability if customers desired it.” The result has been food and beverage firms of all sizes now optimize workflow processes by increasing productivity, reducing costs, and creating economic and operational advantages. In 2011, Seegrid entered into partnerships with Raymond Corporation and Linde Material Handling, the two leading industrial truck manufacturers. Seegrid’ With labor comprising over 75% of all warehouse costs, this unique value proposition is simple and clear according to Friedman, “The cost of a customer implementing Seegrid’s vision-guided technology is substantially less, than the cost of paying a pallet truck operator, over-time.” Specifically, food distribution and manufacturing facilities experience these savings: • The need for manned travel • Dock-to-stock cycle time • Per shift labor costs • Reliance on seasonal and temporary workers Automated guided vehicles (AGV) currently require significant and costly facility overhaul. Seegrid trucks do not require cables, tracks, lasers, magnetic tape or wires; deployed immediately, without changing the existing facility design, maintenance routines, or mechanical components, this ready-to-implement procedure is a central distinction in the robotic industrial truck value proposition. Seegrid Corporation www.seegrid.com Dave Noble PR@seegrid.com 412-379-4500 End
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