With more than 33 million square feet of warehouse space, Saddle Creek Logistics Services is one of the industry’s largest family-owned providers. And of its dozens of locations, its hub in Modesto, California, has proven to be particularly strategic, offering port access in one of the densest states without the high costs of Southern California real estate. But a primary challenge accompanies this region: hot, summer climates that can create temperatures of up to 140 degrees inside the carrier containers that unload daily at the warehouse.

With a focus on continuous improvement and a culture focused on caring for its associates, the company was eager to partner with Anyware Robotics to leverage automation and reduce the safety risk of one of its most undesired tasks, unloading. The FANUC Authorized System Integrator’s robot, named Pixmo, was designed to solve this exact problem. A versatile, AI-powered mobile box handling robot, Pixmo takes on what was once a burdensome manual role, decreasing the number of supporting associates from four to five to one or two.

With a patent-pending conveyor add-on, Pixmo’s functionality, which leverages the power of FANUC’s CRX cobot, increased throughput for Saddle Creek while seamlessly moving boxes much heavier than competing systems can manage. Since deployment, Pixmo has picked more than 1,700,000 pounds of product while transforming safety on site. Dock injuries have dropped to zero for unloading operations and employees have embraced automation while moving into higher-value roles.

The ease of integration, which didn’t require major infrastructure changes or fixed conveyors, allowed Saddle Creek to quickly bring in a solution that worked within their existing footprint to create immediate impact. And since its initial implementation, Pixmo has expanded to support end-of-line palletizing as well, making it the world’s first unloading and palletizing mobile cobot system for the dynamic receiving dock.

With more than 33 million square feet of warehouse space, Saddle Creek Logistics Services is one of the industry’s largest family-owned providers. And of its dozens of locations, its hub in Modesto, California, has proven to be particularly strategic, offering port access in one of the densest states without the high costs of Southern California real estate. But a primary challenge accompanies this region: hot, summer climates that can create temperatures of up to 140 degrees inside the carrier containers that unload daily at the warehouse.

With a focus on continuous improvement and a culture focused on caring for its associates, the company was eager to partner with Anyware Robotics to leverage automation and reduce the safety risk of one of its most undesired tasks, unloading. The FANUC Authorized System Integrator’s robot, named Pixmo, was designed to solve this exact problem. A versatile, AI-powered mobile box handling robot, Pixmo takes on what was once a burdensome manual role, decreasing the number of supporting associates from four to five to one or two.

With a patent-pending conveyor add-on, Pixmo’s functionality, which leverages the power of FANUC’s CRX cobot, increased throughput for Saddle Creek while seamlessly moving boxes much heavier than competing systems can manage. Since deployment, Pixmo has picked more than 1,700,000 pounds of product while transforming safety on site. Dock injuries have dropped to zero for unloading operations and employees have embraced automation while moving into higher-value roles.

The ease of integration, which didn’t require major infrastructure changes or fixed conveyors, allowed Saddle Creek to quickly bring in a solution that worked within their existing footprint to create immediate impact. And since its initial implementation, Pixmo has expanded to support end-of-line palletizing as well, making it the world’s first unloading and palletizing mobile cobot system for the dynamic receiving dock.