Catch Group implementing Robots

Catchhas increased in popularity, especially during lockdown, and now they’ve taken a big leap forward in technology by implementing robots at it’s distribution centre. Catch Group is a part of the Wesfarmers Group and their growth has meant that the company has decided to invest in increased capacity by up to 40 per cent.
The increase in capacity for Catch will be achieved by implementing 100 mobile robots at their Truganina distribution centre in Melbourne, Victoria. The robots are developed and manufactured by German Logistics company, Korber. The new robots will allow the picking of 2000 extra orders an hour and allow them an hold an additional 80,000 stock keeping units taking their capacity to over 1 million.
The robots look similar to vacuum cleaners and move around the distribution centre picking up the required shelves then carrying it to a human picker at a station. The picker picks the required goods from the shelf and places it into the totes that get taken away on conveyor belts. The robots have a high degree of flexibility allowing Catch to make adjustments according to their needs.
As demand grows for their products Catch Group is looking to expand capacity further with possible new distributions centres in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane. The new capacity is there to meet the demand of approximately 30,000 new customers each week.
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