Robots have become an important tool for enterprises to improve efficiency and optimize production processes. However, many enterprises tend to fall into a misunderstanding when introducing robots: focusing more on hard power, such as the performance of robots and their intelligent hardware devices, while neglecting the importance of robot management systems.

Why Do Highly Intelligent Robots Still Require a Management System?

In fact, a good and stable robot management system is essential to give full play to the robot's performance and improve overall productivity.

In the age of manpower, managers need to rationally arrange the work of each worker according to the urgency of the task, workload, resource allocation, and other factors to ensure that overall efficiency is maximized.

The introduction of robots has brought us into the age of automation. However, how to schedule which tasks each robot performs and maximize efficiency is far from achievable by relying on managers. The robot management system, based on algorithmic management, can check thousands of permutations and combinations in a very short period of time to select the optimal strategy and assign tasks to robots, thus realizing the optimal use of resources.

SEER Robotics's M4 Smart Logistics Management System is a robot-centered system designed for automated and intelligent logistics management within the enterprise. It innovatively combines the robot scheduling system and the business system into a single one to provide customers with one-stop management services.

Why Design a Robot-Centered Business System?

M4 Smart Logistics Management System is specifically designed for robots, aiming to truly utilize the effectiveness and advantages of robots.

Take the case of the bin robots with more complex business logic as an example; when they carry out continuous pick-and-place cargo, the traditional business system tends to give the entire horizontal row of continuous pick-and-place cargo task instructions from the perspective of manual operation. This is more convenient for manual operation, but for the container robot, it may lead to unnecessary repeated movement, thus reducing operational efficiency.

In contrast, the M4 system takes into account the characteristics and task requirements of the bin robots. When issuing continuous pick-and-place tasks, it will arrange for the robot to be fixed in one position to complete several consecutive columns of tasks. In addition, when picking up and placing goods in the warehouse, it will also consider picking up the empty/delivering the full, trying to schedule robots to perform the task every time it moves or waybill. This maximizes the resource use and efficiency.

Why Do We Combine “Scheduling + Business” to Make an All-In-One System?

The robot management system is divided into two layers: the lower layer is the robot scheduling system, which is responsible for real-time scheduling and task allocation of robots. The upper layer is the robot business system, which is responsible for overall business process management.

Traditionally, scheduling and business systems are separated, resulting in the need for customers to purchase and integrate multiple systems when selecting and implementing solutions. It not only increases costs but also enhances complexity and maintenance difficulties.

The M4 system combines scheduling and business systems to deliver a one-stop solution to all the challenges. In addition, based on the core architecture designed specifically for robots, the algorithms within the M4 system, such as order consolidation, delivery control, tailing consolidation, and inventory allocation, are more in line with the logic of the robot's business. They are truly able to optimize the production efficiency of the entire plant from the perspective of global information.

In a multi-robot collaboration scenario, if the scheduling and business systems are independent of each other, there may be a situation where a robot in a blocked state is selected to perform tasks, resulting in other idle robots having to collaborate to start the task, which results in a waste of resources.

In M4, the business and scheduling systems communicate with each other to accurately determine which robots are best suited to perform a particular task and then efficiently assign tasks accordingly, effectively avoiding this problem and ensuring optimal utilization of robot resources.

Why is M4 the Preferred Choice for Robot Management Systems?

In order to make the use of robots without any thresholds, the digital system of SEER Robotics not only emphasizes the principles of powerful function and single easy-to-use but also has more openness.

M4 system has an industry-leading low-code engine for robotics and intelligent logistics, which allows customers to customize product logic in a more hassle-free, low-cost, and high-efficiency way. Moreover, your internal technicians can easily modify processes for business customization, achieving the fastest business response speed.

The M4 system visually arranges business processes through Falcon Tasks to achieve more flexible, powerful, and robust customization of the main business and supports the customization of processes, basic information, documents, databases, and interfaces. Moreover, M4 supports the expansion of system capabilities through scripts to realize the needs of customers' edges. Scripts support JavaScript/TypeScript and Python languages, which provide great convenience for developers and reduce the project customization and development cycle by 50% and the cost by 50~80%.

In order to further enhance the user experience, the M4 system fully supports mobile operation and is compatible with a variety of devices, including computers, smartphones, PDAs, monitors, tablets, supporting small screens, touch screens, etc. Whether in the office or on-site, users can access and manage the M4 system at any time and any place, which greatly improves the convenience and efficiency of work.

To sum up, the M4 system is not only an efficient robot management system but also a powerful platform that can flexibly respond to various business needs and realize any customization and self-development. It simplifies the selection and landing of the system for the customer and greatly improves the efficiency of robot operation and the rationality of resource allocation when applied.