a European freight transshipment operator running a six-thousand-square-meter warehouse
How a Transshipment Warehouse Cut Daily Floor Scrubbing From 90 Minutes to 15
A European transshipment warehouse cut daily floor scrubbing from up to 90 minutes to about 15 minutes with an autonomous scrubber across 6,000 square meters.
- 90→15
- min/day
- 6K m²
- floor
- 75
- min saved
- 8
- zones
Based on a documented real-world deployment. Figures are from public reporting; the organization is not named.
Dusty floors outran manual scrubbing
This transshipment warehouse moves freight through a six-thousand-square-meter floor where tyre wear spreads fine dust across aisles and into the air. Manual scrubbing with a ride-on machine took up to ninety minutes daily, and teams often skipped passes when volumes spiked.
Leadership wanted reliable wet cleaning without pulling supervisors off receiving and dispatch work.
- Up to ninety minutes of daily ride-on scrubbing
- Six thousand square meters divided into busy zones
- Tyre dust on floors and in the air
- Cleaning skipped when freight peaks hit
Autonomous scrubber with mapped zones
The operator deployed an autonomous scrubber that maps eight floor zones and runs on a calendar schedule when hall traffic is light. Docking handles water refill, dirty-water drain, and charging with minimal human intervention.
Staff shifted from driving scrubbers to supervising exceptions while the robot handled routine passes.
- Map eight zones across the transshipment hall
- Schedule autonomous runs during low-movement windows
- Use docking for refill, drain, and charging
- Keep staff on freight handling instead of scrubbing
About fifteen minutes of daily staff time
Published reporting states routine cleaning now needs about fifteen minutes of staff attention per day versus up to ninety minutes of manual scrubbing before automation.
The site also reports steadier floor cleanliness and less airborne dust from tyre wear after consistent autonomous wet cleaning.
What transshipment and DC operators can copy
This account documents a European freight transshipment deployment, not a Service Robot Co. customer story. It still shows how a vendor-neutral integrator should scope AMR scrubbers: zone mapping, calendar scheduling around traffic, and daily-minute tracking before fleet expansion.
Service Robot Co. selects scrubber platforms, runs site assessments, and supports warehouse cleaning robot rental or lease programs with a nationwide network of regional service engineers on one contract.