Gabor Shoes AG Auto­mates Shoe Pick­ing with Robots from Magazino

Munich, Sep­tem­ber 23, 2024 – Gabor Shoes AG has imple­mented two TORU robots from the Junghein­rich sub­sidiary Mag­a­zino in its ware­house in Min­del­heim, suc­cess­fully automat­ing its shoe pick­ing process.

Gabor Shoes AG, a long-stand­ing Ger­man com­pany and one of the largest shoe man­u­fac­tur­ers in Europe, is automat­ing shoe pick­ing at its Min­del­heim loca­tion near Munich together with the Junghein­rich sub­sidiary Mag­a­zino. Two TORU robots were deployed to assist with order ful­fill­ment. The aim of this col­lab­o­ra­tion is to auto­mate a key ful­fill­ment process, align­ing order pick­ing with the high level of automa­tion already present through­out the warehouse.

“We chose Toru because we were con­vinced by the com­bi­na­tion of mod­ern tech­nol­ogy and high per­sonal com­mit­ment from the Mag­a­zino team,” explains Armin Euler, Head of Con­trol­ling & Logistics.

The imple­men­ta­tion of the TORU robots at Gabor in Min­del­heim went smoothly. Fol­low­ing the con­tract sign­ing, the project deliv­ery began with a kick-off meet­ing. The com­mis­sion­ing, includ­ing IT inte­gra­tion, was com­pleted within approx­i­mately three months. This short time frame was made pos­si­ble by the already opti­mal stor­age con­di­tions, which met all the require­ments for the mobile pick­ing robots. The effec­tive col­lab­o­ra­tion also allowed for the timely imple­men­ta­tion of process changes to suit the unique require­ments of Gabor.

Ruben Salz, Project Man­ager at Mag­a­zino, says: “Dur­ing the com­mis­sion­ing of the TORUs in Min­del­heim, Magazino’s robot­ics know-how met Gabor’s clear strat­egy for autonomous ware­house processes, which allowed the project team to work together effi­ciently and over­come typ­i­cal chal­lenges. The roll­out of TORU marks a fur­ther step into the future of logis­tics for Gabor, and Mag­a­zino has gained another cus­tomer that is already turn­ing our vision of auto­mated logis­tics into reality.”

TORU works autonomously and can be quickly inte­grated into exist­ing ware­house envi­ron­ments. The robot is able to per­ceive its sur­round­ings and oper­ate safely along­side human staff with the help of 3D cam­eras, sen­sors and laser scan­ners. At Gabor, its tasks con­sist of pick­ing, trans­port­ing, and sort­ing shoe boxes of var­i­ous sizes into a han­dover sta­tion, with a car­ry­ing capac­ity of up to 16 boxes in its back­pack. Orders are trans­mit­ted via a wire­less con­nec­tion to Gabor’s ware­house man­age­ment system.

The TORU robots in Min­del­heim are oper­at­ing at full capac­ity and han­dling an increas­ing num­ber of orders in the pick­ing process. Mag­a­zino is opti­mistic about the future of its part­ner­ship with Gabor Shoes AG and looks for­ward to con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion in the future.