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The pioneer Radioshuttle is 30 years old
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Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Optimisation are terms that are always relevant. At EAB, we were pioneers in this field and this year Radioshuttle™ celebrates 30 years.
The latest version, RS 6.0, is equipped with Wi-Fi and can be controlled by phone, but even the first model was ahead of its time. At the end of the 1980s, the idea of a robot to streamline warehouse management and optimise storage space was sown, and by 1990 the first model of the shuttle was on the market. We also developed a rack for the shuttle, which can be adapted to maximise efficiency and sustainability.
Christer Larsson, Product Developer at EAB ”With our extensive experience of pallet racking and warehouse management, we know that major benefits can be gained from optimising your warehouse. Companies with a cold storage warehouse quickly grasped the opportunities, since they have ongoing running costs for every cubic metre," says Christer Larsson, one of the brains behind Radioshuttle™. Radioshuttle™ was the first pallet management system on the market and as it was a completely
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new handling principle in the logistics industry, it took a few years before it really took off. Between 1993 and 1994, the advantages of Radioshuttle™, which was initially called Maxipacker, became more apparent to more and more people.
”Since sales began, the shuttles have been lifting more than 70.000 pallets per hour across the world” From EAB to the other side of the world Exports soon got under way and in a short time the system was being used across the Nordic region and northern Europe. One of the first large export markets was New Zealand, on the other side of the world. Radioshuttle™ was originally developed from our drive-in racking system, which is another way of optimising storage area.
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