TY - CPAPER U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Bonini, Marco A1 - Urru, Augusto A1 - Echelmeyer, Wolfgang ED - Gusikhin, Oleg T1 - Fast deployable autonomous systems for order picking : how small and medium size enterprises can benefit from the automation of the picking process T2 - ICINCO 2016 : Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, July 29 - 31, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal. - Vol. 2 N2 - The paper focuses on a recently introduced paradigm for the logistic process of picking, with respect to the man-to-goods and goods-to-man concept: the robot to-goods. First the task and system architecture of the fast deployable autonomous commissioning system are described, then the economic efficiency of the system is analysed in a real business case scenario using a simplified method, which is explained and discussed. The clearly positive net present value of the investment and the short payback period obtained in the business case prove how the robot-to-goods paradigm for the commissioning process, implemented through the automation of the forklift platform, is economically attractive for small and medium size enterprises. KW - logistics KW - automation KW - robot-to-goods KW - economic efficiency KW - picking Y1 - 2016 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-10864 SN - 978-989-758-198-4 SB - 978-989-758-198-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5220/0005997804790484 DO - https://doi.org/10.5220/0005997804790484 SP - 479 EP - 484 S1 - 6 PB - SciTePress CY - SetĂșbal, Portugal ER -