Project Overview
One of leading cosmetics retailing group in Asia (the headquarter locates in Hong Kong) has over 260 retail stores and counters in the region selling over 700 brands of skincare, fragrance, make-up and hair care, body care products, health and beauty supplements including own-brands and exclusive products. The group needs to label huge amount of beauty and cosmetic products daily to meet its operations’ needs, but HR department faces recruitment problems (either skilled or unskilled workers) and operation team faces insufficient manpower for daily labelling operation. The operation process is deeply affected and time-consuming if labelling product is arranged manually.
Client Sector:
Retail Business, Cosmetic, Beauty product
Product:
Intelligent Robotics Labelling System
Location:
Hong Kong
Challenge
According to Hong Kong’s ordinances, all importing products are required to have a label explaining its ingredients’ details to the consumers. The group is required to label over 192,000 products daily for complying with the law, by doing so, the group employs over 100 workers for labelling products. But, due to high labour cost (in accordance with the Hong Kong Government’s Policy of Statutory Minimum Wage) and keen competition of labour market, the cosmetic group has difficulty in recruiting skilled workers because of high salary cost and labour shortage here.
Solution
To save the group’s operational cost in labelling products and improve productivity, Million Tech’s IRLS which is a one-stop Artificial Intelligence (AI) Labelling Solutions with Robot provides four sets of high speed 4-axis robotic arm, direct thermal transfer printer, intelligent robotics control software, object recognition system, label design system to its warehouse office. The project deployment includes two phases. Regarding pricing strategy, Million Tech simplifies it by offering a rental scheme to the cosmetics group which assists them in releasing financial pressures.
Result/ Feedback
Million Tech’s IRLS assists the group in saving 5 skilled workers’ salaries monthly if they rent one unit, and boosting productivity as 10 skilled workers’ performance is replaced by 3 unskilled workers. The system helps to increase the group’s labelling productivity in 4 times, and it can label different shapes of products without any human error. The group chooses Million Tech due to the outstanding features and benefits of IRLS and its over 30 years’ experience in label printing solutions.
標籤印刷及粘貼解決方案 –人工智能貼標系統 (IRLS) 節省成本及提升效率
項目概要
亞洲領先的化妝品零售集團之一（總部位於香港），擁有260多家零售店和專櫃，銷售超過700個品牌的護膚，香水，化妝和護髮，身體護理產品，健康和美容補充品包括自家品牌和獨家產品。該集團每天需要標記大量的美容和化妝品以滿足其運營需求，但人力資源部門卻面臨招聘以及人手不足問題（熟練或非熟練工人），因此如果使用工人手動貼標工序，操作過程會受到嚴重影響並且非常耗時。
客戶領域：
零售業，化妝品，美容產品
產品：
人工智能貼標系統
地點：
香港
挑戰
根據現時香港的條例，所有進口產品都必須有一個標籤，向消費者解釋其成分的詳細信息。而該集團每天都必須標記超過192,000種產品以達到法定要求。集團共僱用了100多名工人來貼標籤產品。但是，由於高勞動力成本（根據香港政府的法定最低工資政策）和勞動力市場的激烈競爭，化妝品集團因為高工資和勞動力短缺而難以招聘技術工人。
解決方案
為了節省集團在標籤產品，及生產率方面的運營成本，萬碧發展的一站式人工智能貼標解決方案，提供四套高速4軸機器人手臂、直接熱轉印打印機、智能系統控制軟件、對象識別系統和標籤設計系統，整個項目包括兩個階段。在定價策略方面，萬碧發展通過向化妝品集團提供租賃計劃來簡化，以減輕集團的財務壓力。
結果/反饋
萬碧發展的智能貼標解決方案協助該集團每月節省最少5名技術工人的工資，此外，智能貼標技術更有效提高生產力，只需3名非技術工人就能取代10名技術工人，操作自動化的機械臂進行標籤印刷及粘貼工序；系統有效提升整個標籤工序達4倍，智能化的系統更可以因應產品的不同形狀而作出相應的粘貼程序，而不會出現任何的人為錯誤。
萬碧發展憑藉30多年的經驗，及智能貼標方案突出的特點和優勢，因此，集團選擇了萬碧發展。