Bench Stock Location (BSL) Kitting Automation

AutoCrib proposes to adapt and apply our successful commercial technologies to meet the topic objectives. Our Bench Stock Location (BSL) Kitting Automation technology tackles the storage of indirect materials, management of vast number of kits, and on-time kit replenishment challenges head on. With the form factor and flexibility to store thousands of unique National Stock Numbers (NSN’s) securely throughout a warehouse or factory, the intelligence to organize, build, and label kits on demand, with data integration capabilities to any supply chain management system, our BSL Kitting Automation system will minimize the long lead times, high labor costs, and error prone manual kitting processes that exist today. The initial hardware platform of the Kitting Automation system will be based off a modified commercially available RoboCrib LX2000 machine. This technology has proven tough and reliable in both the government and commercial applications. Both Machine Vison and Robotic picking technologies exist today and when married with proprietary software these applications will revolutionize the kitting industry. Initially these systems will be designed around the small IPV type parts such as bolts, nuts, washers, rivets, etc. and be able to produce roughly 1500 kits per month per machine.