Searched and Found: SYNAOS' New Mobile Robot Finder Accelerates Automation Initiatives

• Interoperability, commissioning time, model variety: Those looking to automate intralogistics processes with mobile robots require prompt solutions.
• SYNAOS' recently launched Mobile Robot Finder provides guidance: With its thoughtful filtering function, the appropriate machine colleague can be quickly identified.
• Field-tested: Some of the mobile robots have already undergone the complete onboarding process and are compatible with SYNAOS IMP via VDA 5050.

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Hanover, 10 May 2024

It is increasingly regarded as a panacea for the ubiquitous labor shortage and escalating operating costs: automation. However, numerous automation projects either fail before they even started, get off to a very slow start, or incur excessive costs and inefficiencies in execution, rendering them nonviable.

Meanwhile, intralogistics managers in the early stages of their automation projects often face the same challenge: to determine what should actually be automated, they first analyze all available data on their current processes and material flows. Once the decision is made that mobile robots are taking over intracompany transport as part of the automation solution, thus vastly increasing the efficiency of intralogistics, the next mammoth task awaits – distributed across three fundamental questions:

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1. Which robots should be purchased?

2. If mobile robots from different manufacturers need to be deployed, how will interoperability be ensured?

3. How long does commissioning of the mobile robots on the shop floor take?

Time pressure is not a good advisor, and time is never on the side of those looking to automate now.

‍SYNAOS provides a practical answer to those questions: The intralogistics software company has set up the Mobile Robot Finder on its website. The intuitive self-service tool is designed for automation managers to find suitable AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) or AMRs (Autonomous Mobile Robots) for their intralogistics requirements.

With the thoughtful filtering function, robots can be filtered quickly and easily according to specific characteristics such as vehicle type, load capacity, load type, maximum payload, dimensions, and application area.

SYNAOS-certified mobile robots: Interoperable and ready for immediate use

The special feature: The Mobile Robot Finder lists mobile robots that are partially compatible with SYNAOS' central fleet management system. Some of them have already undergone SYNAOS' five-stage onboarding process, thus communicating via the VDA 5050 interface standard and are already operating in active customer projects of SYNAOS partners.

"SYNAOS customers benefit from the industry's largest mobile robot partner network, our expertise, and our track record of successful mobile robot implementations in customer projects," says Dr. Philipp Schäfers, Head of Partner Management & Business Development at SYNAOS. "They can quickly and clearly find a suitable mobile robot from the portfolio of our partners. With our VDA 5050 onboarding process, we have developed a powerful tool to achieve the highest quality in VDA 5050 communication. This enables quick commissioning on-site. The Mobile Robot Finder also provides transparency regarding the onboarding status of the individual robots."

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