SENCO Příbram Teams Up with KVADOS & Hai Robotics to Revolutionize Warehouse Operations

Project Overview

SENCO Příbram spol. s r.o., a leader in electrical equipment manufacturing based in Příbram, Czech Republic, has partnered with system integrator KVADOS and Hai Robotics to transform its warehouse operations through advanced automation. The case study, published in February 2025, documents how the three-way collaboration addressed SENCO's logistics challenges by delivering optimized storage, boosted efficiency, and streamlined warehouse processes.

SENCO Příbram is an established manufacturer in the Czech industrial sector, operating a production and logistics facility in Příbram — a city in the Central Bohemian Region approximately 60 kilometers southwest of Prague. The company's positioning as "a leader in electrical equipment manufacturing" places it within the broader Central European industrial supply chain, where automation adoption in warehouse and manufacturing logistics has accelerated significantly in recent years.

This deployment is part of Hai Robotics' growing presence in the EMEA region, and specifically within Central Europe, where the company has built a network of local system integrators capable of delivering and supporting HaiPick deployments. KVADOS, as the system integrator, brings local market knowledge, language capability, and ongoing support proximity — factors that are particularly important for manufacturing clients where warehouse uptime directly affects production continuity.

Technical Solution

Hai Robotics ACR System for Manufacturing Warehouse

The Hai Robotics automated goods-to-person system deployed at SENCO Příbram applies the company's ACR (Autonomous Case-handling Robot) platform to the specific requirements of a manufacturing warehouse environment. In a manufacturing context, the warehouse serves a dual function: it stores incoming raw materials and components awaiting use in production, and it holds finished goods and sub-assemblies awaiting dispatch. The ACR system supports both functions through a unified automated storage and retrieval infrastructure.

The goods-to-person model is well-suited to manufacturing warehouses because it eliminates the need for warehouse operators to navigate the storage area to locate and retrieve items — a time-consuming and error-prone process in environments with large SKU counts and variable item sizes. Instead, the ACR robots retrieve the relevant storage totes and deliver them to fixed operator workstations, where the warehouse execution software provides pick instructions and validates each transaction.

Key Features

Storage Optimization for Electrical Equipment Manufacturing The ACR system's high-density storage capability addresses the particular challenge of electrical equipment manufacturing warehouses, which typically hold a large number of component SKUs with varying physical characteristics. The system manages the physical storage of these diverse items in a unified automated grid, with the warehouse execution software handling location assignment and retrieval sequencing to optimize both storage density and retrieval efficiency.

Efficiency Boost Through Goods-to-Person Automation The goods-to-person model eliminates the travel time that dominates manual picking operations — in a conventional warehouse, operators can spend 50–70% of their working time travelling between storage locations. By bringing the goods to the operator at a fixed workstation, the ACR system dramatically increases the productive fraction of each operator's working time, boosting overall picking throughput with the same or fewer staff.

Streamlined Processes Reducing Complexity The "streamlined processes" outcome encompasses the broader operational simplification that automation delivers: fewer manual handoffs, system-directed workflows that reduce the cognitive load on operators, automated inventory tracking that eliminates manual counting and reconciliation, and a unified execution platform that coordinates storage, retrieval, and picking across the facility.

Czech Republic EMEA Deployment with Local System Integrator The KVADOS partnership demonstrates Hai Robotics' ability to deliver locally-supported deployments in Central European markets. For manufacturing clients like SENCO, local system integrator support is a practical necessity — production-critical warehouse operations cannot afford the response time delays associated with remote or international support arrangements.

Results & Benefits

The published case study description identifies three outcome areas for the SENCO Příbram deployment:

Optimized Storage: The ACR system's high-density storage configuration improves the utilization of SENCO's warehouse footprint, enabling more inventory to be held in the same space or the same inventory to be held in less space — with implications for both operational efficiency and real estate cost.

Boosted Efficiency: The goods-to-person model increases picking throughput per operator, reducing the labor cost per order and improving the speed of warehouse operations in support of production schedules and outbound logistics.

Streamlined Processes: The automated system replaces manual, paper-based, or semi-automated workflows with system-directed processes that are more consistent, more accurate, and easier to manage and monitor.

Challenges & Solutions

The central challenge of this deployment is the complexity of electrical equipment manufacturing logistics — a large, diverse SKU base with variable handling requirements, time-sensitive production supply obligations, and an operating environment subject to the labor market pressures of the Central European industrial economy. KVADOS' system integration work addresses these challenges by configuring the Hai Robotics platform for SENCO's specific operational requirements: SKU profiling, storage location management, pick sequencing, and ERP integration.

The geographic and linguistic context of a Czech deployment adds a layer of implementation complexity that KVADOS resolves through local expertise and language capability. For Hai Robotics, the KVADOS partnership is the mechanism through which the company's technology platform is made accessible and supportable in the Czech market — a model that the company is replicating across EMEA through its regional system integrator network.