Global Material Handling Solution Provider

ABOUT US

Our Vision: to become a pioneer as a top level global automated solutions provider in the intelligent logistics industry, leading the logistics industry for hundred years/Forging world famous brand.

BlueSword

We are the End-To-End total solutions provider for your smart logistics AMRs and warehouses and we are overall accountable for your smart warehousing, agile supply chain and core business.

1993 Found by Professor Mike Wu

2001 Established Logistics Research Center with George Tech

2014 Established Intelligent Equipment R&D Center and Factory

2018

Export Case-level ASRS GTP system to Japan

2020

Listed in Shanghai Stock Exchange

2021

Export Case-level ASRS GTP system to USA

2022

Export Pallet-level ASRS GTP system to Germany

2023
30th Anniversary

BUSINESS SCOPE

5 Core business in logistics areas
Consulting & planning
Software development
Equipment manufacturing
RaaS (Robot as a Service)
System integration

Regions Asia & Pacific North America South America Europe

Worldwide Customers

ESTÉE LAUDER

INTELLIGENT R&D MANUFACTURING BASE

BlueSword Super Future Factory

Our industry's leading innovative R&D team has 300+R&D/ product engineers, including4 PhDs. BlueSword Intelligent R&D manufacturing base has the expertise to continuously deliver intelligent logistics equipment, large-scale optimization algorithms, logistics management software, etc. With our fully-customized design, lean manufacturing, fast delivery, and active after-sale, BlueSword E2E capability ensures us to provide the most reliable, most deliverable, best service to our valuable customers.

BlueSword Intelligent Super Future Factory covers an area of 130,000+m², with 11 modern production workshops. Based on the lights-out manufacturing methodology, we equipped more than100 units of large-scale production equipment and robot to produce intelligent logistics robots.

BlueSword Intelligent Super Future Factory has inhouse design and manufacturing capability of core equipment:

• Conveyor: 165,000+ Sets/Year

• Multi-Shuttle: 12,000+ Sets/Year

• Stacker Crane: 1,000+ Sets/Year

• AGVs & AMRs: 2,000+ Sets/Year

• Customized Robot: 1000+ Sets/year

TECHNOLOGY FRONTIER R&D TEAM

BlueSword has the industry's leading innovative R&D team, led by PhDs from ISyE,Georgia Institute of Technology, United States. We focus on large-scale logistics optimization problems from real industry scenarios and have won several top logistics industry honors in Greater China, North America and worldwide.

In order to build core competitiveness, BlueSword's innovation also includes establishing the Logistics Engineering Talent Training Base, seeking to cultivate thoroughly knowledgeable logistics personnel.

TECHNICAL STRENGTH

Innovation theory

After years of experience, BlueSword has formed its own innovative logistics theory, which has helped the rapid development of the logistics industry in China.

Our rapid-picking theory is based on parallel picking, pre-picking buffer, and gravity-based picking.

Our integrated storage and distribution system based on dense storage, goods-to-person picking, and flexible handing.

Our BlueSword KongMing® Algorithm is based on the Stochastic Balance Iterated Optimization Algorithm(SBIOATM), Rapid Image Recognition Algorithm(RIRATM), and Competition-based Large-scale Conflict-processing Algorithm (CLCATM).

Professional Qualification

• National high-tech enterprise

• CMMI certification

• TÜV-CE certification

• SCL-RMI certification

• ISO9001 quality management system certification

• T28001-2001 occupational health & safety management system certification

• ISO14001 environmental management system certification

We have obtained 325 independent intellectual property rights in China by June 2023.

80 Invention Patents

166 Utility Model Patents

21 Design Patents

58 Software Copyrights

END-TO-END SMART LOGISTICS SYSTEM SOLUTION

BlueSword integrates consulting & planning, software development, equipment manufacturing, system integration, and warehouse operation, and provides accountable and cost-effective logistics system solutions for multiple industries.

PALLET-LEVEL SOLUTION

P-SSI (Pallet Storage and Sorting Integrated System)

P-SSl adopts modular technology combined with a block-chain concept and dense storage technology, all based on our integrated concept form storage & sorting. P-SSI takes the stacker crane as the core equipment, to effect high-density storage of all product specifications in a single source, and also carries out sorting & outbound processing of whole outbound pallets or whole cartons based on real orders.

According to the storage mode, the P-SSI can be divided into the ASRS P-SSI and dense storage P-SSI.

DCAS (DENSE CHANNELS ACCESSING SYSTEM)

The DCAS uses "Dense Racks" as the storage carrier, making use of the gravity of the goods, which transforms the traditional working mode from equipment movement to goods movement and shortens the moving path of the equipment to dramatically improve storage density and efficiency. In addition, it also organically combines the functions of storage, picking, and palletizing to simplify the operational processing of storage and sorting.

· Eliminate distance between pallets or cartons (vertical)

· Compresses device storage allowance for case/carton height (up and down)

· Reduce redundant equipment and its related equipment occupied space (horizontal)

· Compresses 3D space to allow racks and goods to form high-density integration

ASRS

ASRS is mainly composed of racks, stacker cranes, inbound/outbound workstations, conveyors and control systems, etc. The ASRS carries out automatic storage and inbound/outbound tasks by pallets.

Passive storage → Active storage

PTG → GTP

Storage capacity increased by 40% - 100%

Reduce process and investment

Space saved by 30% – 50%

Less FTE(Full Time Employee); Less touch

STACKER CRANE

The stacker crane is the core equipment of the whole ASRS, which is used for highly dense storage and automatic inbound/outbound operation with pallets(customized pallets) as the storage unit. The size of pallets is designed according to the specific requirements. The load of stacker crane is generally 500kg / 1000kg / 1500kg / 2000kgand tailor-made, and palletizing and depalletizing can be done manually or automatically. According to the actual application requirement and investment budget, different types of equipment such as single-deep / double-deep, one-load / multi-load, straight rail / ring rail, etc. can be selected.

Meet the latest European standard EN528 and PLd electrical safety specification

FOUR-WAY PALLET SHUTTLE

The Four way Pallet Shuttle is a warehousing and handling equipment independently developed by Bluesword, integrating intelligent control, four-way movement, automatic handling, and active obstacle avoidance functions. It is suitable for various industriessuch as tobacco, alcohol, e-commerce, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, etc., and can meet the high-density high-efficiency, and high-flexibility warehousing requirements. It is applicable to various sizes of pallets.

The vehicle's overall height is 135mm, enabling higher utilization of warehouse space.

Efficient Drive

Utilizing a full servo motor solution, it offers higher precision compared to hydraulic control.

In-house Developed Core

Utilizing Bluesword's self-developed controller, it offers stronger customization capabilities and enhanced stability.

Reliable Transmission

The entire vehicle adopts a full gearbox transmission solution, increasing the precision and reliability of equipment transmission, while reducing the workload of daily maintenance and upkeep.

Intelligent Obstacle Avoidance

Equipped with laser obstacle avoidance sensors, the vehicle intelligently detects obstacles ahead. When encountering obstacles in the vehicle's path, it brakes and issues a warning alarm.

CASE-LEVEL SOLUTION

Case-level Storage and Sorting Integrated System

C-SSl adopts modular technology combined with a block-chain concept and dense storagetechnology based on a storage & sorting integrated concept. C-SSl takes multi-shuttle and lifter as the core equipment, to perform high-density storage of all product ranges in a single source, carrying out whole case/carton outbound or single item picking & outbound based on realorders. The typical system of C-SSl is multi-shuttle system. Nowadays, thesystem has been widely used in large distribution centers of shoes & apparel, e-commerce, cosmetics, household chemicals, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, food & beverages, and other industries.

CASE-LEVEL SOLUTION ADVANTAGES

·More Flexible - BlueSword multi-shuttle can deal with various sizes of cases/cartons in multi-deep or stacked.

·More Intelligent - The BlueSword KongMing® system manages, allocates, and optimizes GTP picking process precisely and efficiently.

·More Reliable - Adopted DC servo motor, motion controller, and industrial cameras.

·Applicable to a variety of scenarios - The system works perfectly in-30C\~+50°C environments with up to 85% humidity, it also has anti-explosion, anti-static, and water/oil/salt proof optional functions.

·Easy to Maintain - Adopted modular design and CANopen BUS.

•Global Standard - CE certified.

MULTI-SHUTTLE

Multi-shuttle is based on the "Goods-to-Person" scenario to reduce the number of FTEs, lower the mistake rate, boost space utilization, make items less touch, and raise the operational level of the entire distribution center.

• Fast & Reliable - High-order S-curve motion control algorithm.

• Quiet - Independent suspension configured.

• Flexible-Variable dimensions of the shuttle fork.

• Global Standard – CE certified.

OHT:OVERHEAD HOIST TRANSPORT

OHT integrated intelligent scheduling & dispatching subsystem, rail subsystem, maintenance platform subsystem, power supply subsystem, communicationsubsystem, rail shuttle, electronic control subsystem, etc.

I Product Features

Wide Range of Applications Widely used in production line material handling in the automobile, tire, electronics industries, etc.

Space Saving

The overhead monorail and modular design concept realizes the overhead-free movement of materials and improves plant space utilization.

High Efficiency

The intelligent scheduling & dispatching system can realize the optimization of multi-vehicle task distribution and move path optimization through advanced algorithms, which significantly increases the EMS's valid uptime and raises the system's overall material handling effectiveness.

High Reliability & Safety

OHT makes use of full servo control to realize the accurate positioning of running, lifting, grasping, and other actions. The High-order S-curve motion control algorithm greatly improves stability during running and lifting. In addition, the head of the EMS is equipped with 180-degrees anti-collision radar to effectively prevent the occurrence of vehicle collision problems and ensure the safety of operation.

Flexible & Tailor-made

According to the requirements of different industries, different clamp fixtures can be used, including grippers, case baskets, forks, and so on, for example. It has flexible clamp fixtures (so-called “gripper”)for the tire industry, a single gripper can be used for multi-specification tire sizes and has a trigger sensor on the gripper actually senses whether the gripper is in full contact with the tire to ensure the stability of its grasp function.

HIGH-SPEED MINILOAD

The high-speed Miniload realizes quick picking, shipping, dense storage, noiseless operation, and system flexibility by adopting the full servo motor and telescopic side-hook or telescopic plate-fork which can adjust the holding mode and force of the fork/hook according to the dimension and the weight of the goods, and mix access the cases and cartons.

ASIAN ELEPHANT SMART LOADING/UNLOADING ROBOT

Asian Elephant Smart Loading and Unloading Robot System is centered around intelligent unloading robots. It can be seamlessly integrated with both manual and automatic palletizing systems, offering flexible and intelligent unloading capabilities. Moreover, it is compatible with multi-level stereoscopic intelligent systems, making it suitable for various unloading requirements in different scenarios such as box trucks and container trucks.

High Efficiency

The unloading efficiency of the Asian Elephant Smart Smart Loading and Unloading Robot ranges from 700 to 900 pieces per hour. It can achieve dual-grab and dual-pick capabilities. With the addition of automatic palletizing and automatic storage systems, it enables fully unmanned operations throughout, significantly reducing labor costs.

Integrated Loading and Unloading Dual Functionality

Equipped with convenient interfaces, it can quickly switch between the front-end gripping tool and the loading tool, transforming the equipment into an intelligent loading robot. This seamless transition between loading and unloading functions allows a single device to simultaneously meet both unloading and loading requirements.

High Flexibility

Utilizing 3D vision recognition technology, the system can accurately identify the position and orientation of cartons, enabling flexible grasping of cartons with different stacking shapes and sizes. This capability meets the unloading needs of users with diverse SKUs and varying carton sizes, making it suitable for a wide range of applications.

Safety

Utilizing a hybrid navigation system primarily based on laser SLAM navigation, the system is equipped with various safety measures such as deceleration, collision prevention, and obstacle avoidance. This ensures the device's automatic navigation within the cargo hold and 360-degree comprehensive safety obstacle avoidance.

1 Backend is equipped with a multi-level stereoscopic intelligent system.

2Backend is equipped with an automatic palletizing intelligent system.

Backend is equipped with a manual palletizing system.

Core Parameters

Rated Unloading Efficiency
Single-grab: ≥700 pieces per hour Dual-grab: ≥900 pieces per hour

Adaptability to Cargo Box Size
2900x3000mm (maximum)

Adaptability to Cargo Dimensions
Cargo Length: 230-800mm Cargo Height: 230-800mm Cargo Width: 230-800mm

Single-grab: ≤50kg Dual-grab: ≤25kg
Adaptability to Cargo Weight

Adaptability to Mixed Unloading and Disassembly Functionality

CONVEYOR

Easy to install and maintain

By adopting modular design, the puncture flat cable, and plastic expansion rivets, the overall project implementation time reduced by 40%.

Lightweight

By using aluminum alloy instead of iron, electric roller instead of electric motor.

Flexible

Provided by the scalability of the system (adaptation of the numbers of rollers, conveyor function, speed, etc.)

High Cost-Effectiveness

By reducing the use of control cabinets, cables, equipment footprint, and maintenance labor.

Space saving

Two-direction wheels and four-direction wheels instead of the traditional pop-up diverter, so that the space is more compact.

Higher payload

48V electric roller is used to replace the commonly used 24V electric roller. The payload is higher and the carton is prevented from getting stuck.

Merge conveyor

Curve conveyor

High speed right angle transfer

High speed steerable wheel diverter

AGV

Flexibility

Complex path operations can be realized by using laser SLAM-based composite navigation.

Fast

The AGV body control algorithm based on the Bessel-curve is applied to ensure the stability of the body and improve the movement speed.

Intelligent

3D visual perception system is adopted, which can identify pallets with different placement positions caused by manual operation. The recognition range is greater than ±30cm, ±30degrees, covering most application scenarios. According to the location of the secondary identification, AGV will follow the re-planned and generated new retrieval route to complete the retrieval operation.

Safe

Using 3D vision-based spatial obstacle avoidance technology to achieve 360-degrees obstacle avoidance.

Reliable

24/7 Continuous and reliable operation. Adaptable to -23 ℃\~65℃ environment.

Efficient

The scheduling software can simulate application scenarios in advance and accurately calculate the equipment demand. It can effectively dispatch large-scale AGV clusters.

AGV parameters

Navigation: Laser SLAM composite navigation

Loading capacity: Max 3t

Lifting height: Max 11.45m

Turning radius: Min 1m

Movement speed:

Max 2m/s

Climbing capacity:

≤5 degrees

Trench crossing capacity: ≤15mm

Applicable Range

Acting as a link between the inbound and outbound operation areas of the stereo warehouse and the stations, it facilitates the transfer of goods through chain conveyance, and can transport them to designated ports for completing inbound and outbound operations based on instructions from the upper-level system.

Technical Parameters

Theoretical Load: 1200kg

Travel Speed: 220m/min

Turning Speed: 0.5m/s

Suitable Pallet: 1250\*1000\*150mm (supports optional selection of other pallets)

Acceleration: 1.5m/s²

Positioning Accuracy: ±3mm

Performance Advantages

Automation: Capable of high-speed and efficient transportation and transfer of entire pallets of goods.

Safety: Equipped with laser radar obstacle avoidance sensors and barcode precise positioning, ensuring precise motion control.

Stability: Utilizes multi-stage S-curve speed control technology to achieve fast and stable acceleration and deceleration effects.

Practicality: Equipped with a handheld terminal for easier operation.

High Standards: Incorporates international brand drive systems, motors, and sensors.

IMHS SOFTWARE

COMPREHENSIVE IMPROVEMENT

WHOLE PROCESS VISIBILITY

BlueSword has built an integrated IMHS with Digital Twins as the core, covering the whole life cycle of storage, sorting, distribution, management, and assessment.

The BlueSword IMHS is the brain of the whole intelligent logistics automation system. It comprehensively makes use of lean management, big-data, artificial intelligence, and other technologies to control storage, sorting, and distribution through embedded software, business application software, and business intelligence software. It can interface with a PC, mobile phone, tablet, TV, LED screen, or any other on-site scheduling terminal to carry out flexible business processing. The whole chain is controllable, visible, touchable & analyzable!

IMHS SOFTWARE

The most advanced technologies like Digital Twins, loT, AR, Al, and cloud computing, can provide visualdisplays for high-level applications such as Components-level Dynamic Modeling, Real Order Simulation, Off-line Commissioning, 3D Monitoring, Active Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance & Repair, and Decision Analysis The equipment can receive omnidirectional and multi-dimensional sensor information, to build an intelligent digital world connected with everything.

BlueSword Digital Twins Intelligent Logistics Platform

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Components-level Dynamic Modeling

02

Real Order Simulation

03

Off-line Commissioning

04

3D Monitoring

05

Preventive Maintenance & Repair

06

Remote Training Operations and Maintenance

IMHS SOFTWARE

BlueSword IMHS is widely used, being compatible with SAP, Manhattan, Flux, Infor, and other well-known domestic and international ERP systems. BlueSword's material handling database (MHDB) is built on mainstream database platforms such as DB2, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, etc., to connect and integrate with stacker cranes, multi-shuttle, conveying systems, sorting & picking equipment, packing machines, and AGV through Wi-Fi, 5G, ProfiBus and other communication methods, to form an overall intelligent storage logistics automation system, which has been successfully applied to more than 1000 high-end customers in the household chemicals, e-commerce, pharmaceutical, tobacco, and other industries.

Software System Architecture

The 5G communication has high speed, low delay, large capacity, wide coverage, high reliability, and other technical advantages, which provide more secure and reliable network support for the BlueSword intelligent logistics system. It can obtain the data transmitted by the upper layer application more intuitively, timely, and accurately,and carry out the intelligent analysis. It can reach the intelligent robot device end and the operations and management end more quickly and thus realize the seamless end-to-end connection.

RaaS(Robot-as-a-Service)

RaaS is the intelligent automatic intralogistics system invested in and constructed by BlueSword, it operates and maintains by the operational team to provide the storage and order picking service.

It can satisfy changing customers'needs and flexibly adapt to the "order wave, batch, cross-docking/semi cross-docking, 3PL, JIT, return to supplier, customer return"and other strong timeliness business requirements.

The BlueSword's ASRS is operated by a professional technical team with high efficiency and fewer faults, covering different industrial customers like e-commerce, retail, shoes & apparel, cosmetics, books, food & beverage, etc

RaaS types

Customers use the hardware and software system with customers own operation and maintenance team and be charged by order/piece/using time.

As the value-added service, we could also offer professional operation and maintenance team and charge by personnel.

We could also share the hardware and software system together with the operation maintenance team among multiple customers.

Core data

Total daily order processing capability: 4 Million pieces

Total storage capability: 768 Million pieces

Total warehouse space: 50,000 m²

Total storage spot: 800,000 units

Total robots in operation: 2000 sets

Vipshop Phase II (October 2017)

Vipshop Phase III (October 2017)

Vipshop Phase IV (May 2018)

Lower costs

Through the introduction of automation to reduce the number of personnel, save warehouse space, and reduce operating costs.

We provide three RaaS service models that you can choose for your business requirements, which greatly reduces the initial payment threshold for you.

More flexible

The system can be programmed to perform new tasks based on customer requirements and can help companies meet the challenges of producing small lots with multiple orders.

Flexibility to switch between order picking and batch picking with high system redundancy.

High efficiency

Solve complex problems such as massive orders, massive SKUs, high timeliness of orders, and the need for large-scale, efficient, and accurate picking in warehousing operations.

Improve the order picking efficiency through hot-SKU real-time analysis and ABC classification of commodities real-time analysis.

24/7

The after-sales team is on duty 24/7, responding to customer problems within 2 hours, and solving emergency spare parts and services within 8 hours.

We are the leading company in terms of multiple purchase rates in the field of logistics total solution provider industry.

Authorized by Customer loT Cloud Platform Support

Remote Operation Monitoring

Real-time Site Monitoring

Master The Actual Operation of Equipment

Provide remote technical support

20%

24%

First Purchase

Repurchase Customer Secondary Purchase

10%

Repurchase Customer Third Purchase

46%

Repurchase Customer Fourth Purchase and Plus