A US Air Force Warehouse Floor Scrubber: 13,000 Sq Ft Covered in About Two Hours

Floor work that kept pulling people off the job

A logistics warehouse on an Air Force installation has one large floor and a steady flow of receiving, storage and issue work. Keeping that floor clean is necessary, but it is slow, repetitive and hard to fit around the daily tasks that actually move supplies.

Manual scrubbing takes skilled people away from storage and movement. Every hour spent pushing a machine across the same aisles is an hour the team cannot give to the work it was trained to do.

A scrubber brought in alongside a wider modernization effort

The operation adopted a robotic floor scrubber as one part of a broader push to improve its warehouse. Members of the logistics and readiness team worked on the effort, and leadership from a headquarters innovation team visited the site in March.

A deployment of this kind usually moves through a few stages. The steps below describe the general pattern, not a day by day account of this operation.

• Map the warehouse floor and confirm the coverage route
• Set the scrubber to its cleaning cycle and check the first full run
• Train the staff who will watch over the unit and report any issues
• Keep service and support in place as the routine settles

What the warehouse reports after the scrubber went in

The operation reports that the scrubber can cover its 13,000 square foot warehouse in about two hours, and that it removes the need for manual floor cleaning across that space. Those two points are the clearest outcome in the account.

The operation also points to more than 1,200 hours saved each year across its existing applications. That is an estimate, not a metered total, and it is not a figure for the scrubber alone.

What this means for a warehouse weighing a floor scrubber

Service Robot Co. is a full service, OEM neutral commercial robot integrator for US businesses. We select the right robots across manufacturers, then finance, deploy, integrate, train and service every unit through a nationwide US engineer network, so one partner covers the whole lifecycle.

For a warehouse manager, the practical questions are whether a scrubber fits the floor, the shift pattern and the budget cycle. We start with a site assessment and quote one fixed robot lease payment on a three year lease, so the cost is known before the unit arrives. An autonomous floor scrubber lease is one of several robot lease options we arrange.

Commercial robot leasing goes best when the floor is mapped, the crew is trained and service is in place from day one. We handle that path, from the first walkthrough through go live support, with engineer visits from our nationwide network when a unit needs attention. Learn more at servicerobotco.com.