a North American facility products distributor running warehouse operations across multiple regions
How a Facility Supplier Scaled Autonomous Scrubbing Across 23 Warehouse Sites
A North American facility distributor deployed autonomous scrubbers across 23 warehouses and reported 470M+ square feet cleaned autonomously with less manual labor.
- 23
- sites
- 470M+
- sq ft
- 6→23
- rollout
- AMR
- fleet
Based on a documented real-world deployment. Figures are from public reporting; the organization is not named.
Manual scrubbing could not scale with the network
This distributor operates warehouses across North America where clean, safe floors matter for customers touring facilities and for employees moving pallets daily. Ride-on scrubbers worked but consumed labor that leadership wanted focused on customer-facing tasks.
The team needed a standardized autonomous platform they could trial, measure, and expand without reinventing training at every site.
- Dozens of warehouses with varying floor layouts
- Manual scrubbing pulled labor from customer work
- Need proof before nationwide equipment refresh
- Operators skeptical until floors visibly improved
Pilot six scrubbers, then expand to twenty-three sites
Leadership began with six industrial autonomous scrubbers during an equipment refresh, using the rollout to pressure-test performance before recommending the platform to customers. Operators received hands-on training as each site went live.
After early sites logged strong autonomous hours and cleaner floors, the fleet expanded to twenty-three warehouses with mapped routes per building.
- Start with six AMR scrubbers on a defined refresh cycle
- Map routes and train operators site by site
- Track autonomous square footage for leadership reviews
- Expand only after floors and labor metrics improve
Hundreds of millions of square feet cleaned autonomously
Published reporting cites more than four hundred seventy million square feet cleaned autonomously after the fleet reached twenty-three warehouses.
Employee feedback highlighted cleaner facilities and more time for customer-focused work instead of driving scrubbers.
What multi-site operators can copy
This account documents a facility distributor internal deployment, not a Service Robot Co. customer story. It still shows how a vendor-neutral integrator should run warehouse cleaning robot rental pilots: six-site proof, autonomous square-foot reporting, then phased expansion.
Service Robot Co. selects scrubber platforms, runs site assessments, and supports industrial floor scrubber rental programs with a nationwide network of regional service engineers on one contract.