Tampa-Based Signode Expands Autonomous Mobile Robot Portfolio for Warehouse Automation
Tampa — Signode, a global provider of transit packaging equipment and automation, announced in Tampa on October 22 an expanded portfolio of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) designed to extend automation beyond the packaging line into pallet movement across manufacturing and warehouse operations. The lineup includes lifting robots, pallet trucks, counter-balanced forklifts, reach trucks and stacker forklifts, and the robots navigate without fixed lines or magnetic strips, rerouting around obstructions as they move through a facility.
"End-of-line automation doesn't stop once a product has been packaged and palletized," said Shawn Semer, Signode's vice president of global automation. "That pallet still has to move through the facility and ultimately into storage or distribution. Expanding our AMR portfolio gives customers more ways to automate those movements and connect processes across their operation." The offering complements Signode's StorFast automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), with more than 800 vehicles deployed across over 80 locations globally; one customer has integrated more than 17 robots within a single warehouse.
Signode reports more than $2 billion in revenue, over 80 manufacturing facilities across six continents and more than 6,000 employees worldwide. The expansion underscores how, amid persistent labor shortages, warehouse and logistics automation remains a priority investment for manufacturers.
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：Signode 自主移动机器人（堆垛型）。照片：Signode 公司官方发布图。 / A Signode autonomous mobile robot (stacker type). Photo: Signode official release image.
