Handling heavy goods is part of everyday life in the production, retrieval, and storage processes of many companies. We are seeing more and more facilities focused on creating safer and healthier methods for their staff. Automated storage and retrieval answers many of the needs of warehouses with mixed loads. There are two main reasons why this makes sense. Firstly the physical stress placed on employees is incredibly high in many industries. Average loads of ten kilos per unit are often moved, with the upper limit sometimes as heavy as 20 kg or more. This is a major reasons why many companies have reviewed their approach and are now increasingly focused on the health of the employee. But in addition to the health aspects, there are also economic reasons for establishing automation in the workplace, because these measures help companies to increase productivity.
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