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Tote handling.

Efficient tote handling is essential for maintaining throughput, uptime, and peak performance as warehouse volumes grow. Manual handling can create bottlenecks, increase ergonomic strain, and make performance less predictable during high-volume periods. Automated tote handling creates reliable, scalable tote flows that help operations stay flexible, stable, and ready to scale across multiple sites.

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What is tote handling?

Robotic tote handling is the automated handling of totes at specific process steps within a warehouse or distribution environment. This can include palletizing totes, depalletizing totes, placing totes into racks, retrieving totes from racks, or transferring totes between process positions. AWL focuses on the robotic machines that perform these handling tasks accurately and reliably.

Labor dependency and shortages

Ergonomic strain and repetition

Tote flow bottlenecks

Limited peak scalability

Solution

System approach to these challenges

Reliable tote handling depends on more than automating individual process steps. As volumes, product mixes, and routing requirements change, the full system must maintain uptime, throughput, and reliable performance under high volumes. AWL designs modular tote handling solutions around flow continuity, operational flexibility, and integration with existing WMS, WCS, and control systems.

High throughput
Modular automation solutions that support scalable warehouse operations
Continuous tote transport and handling for stable material flows

Approach

A proven approach to robotic automation

The success of robotic automation depends on more than the technology itself. The way requirements are defined, engineering decisions are made, and systems are supported after commissioning all influence long-term operations performance.

Bringing together expertise across engineering, integration, commissioning, and support helps create solutions that perform reliably in operation.

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Higher throughput capacity during peak volumes

Improved system uptime and operational reliability

Reduced labor dependency and ergonomic issues

Scalable performance across changing warehouse demands

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''We're still learning and the team is still getting more comfortable with it, but at the end of the day we really starting to see the productivity, the benefits that we were expecting.''

Bill Monk, Vice President of Distribution at GNC

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“The first results are positive, and the team is pleased with the solution. They only need to feed the parcels into ROSI and no longer worry about them.”

Tom Hartmans, Project Lead at GLS