Concrete Floor Flatness Report: An Important Tool in Verifying Hive System Stability

A hive isn’t just for bees anymore! The newest innovation for robotic warehouses is a “hive,” a robotic automated grid system where hundreds of robots dash along aluminum grids, picking up goods from bins to fill orders. In a supermarket warehouse in Australia, robots in a hive system send out 10,000 grocery orders in a day!

When building a hive on top of a concrete floor, the quality of the floor must be analyzed and verified to ensure that robots can operate efficiently and effectively. In this case, how can engineers inform stakeholders that the overall floor deviation conforms to the hive system’s specifications?

Finding a testing solution that provides all project stakeholders—including general contractors, building owners, and concrete remediation teams—with the information they need is key. For example, most decision-makers on the project team simply need a quick look at the condition of the floor to make sure it has passed. In that case, using a solution that analyzes the floor and then automatically generates results in a PDF format is ideal.

Quick and Reliable Verification

With a standardized report, stakeholders don’t need to use a specialized tool in order to learn more about the floor testing results. Instead, they can easily open up the document to view important information about the concrete floor, including project details and testing specifications.

Did you know? RoboFlat, KCI’s advanced, cloud-based solution for floor flatness/levelness testing, generates a customizable report with every test. RoboFlat users can enter general details about their project, including survey date, site name/ID, building and weather conditions, even the equipment ID of their laser scanner, while setting up their test, and that information is populated in the generated report automatically.

Easy-to-Understand Results

The most valuable aspect of the report is the floor flatness/levelness results. The content will vary, depending on the testing standard that was used. For example, reports for ASTM results would display the FF (flatness) and FL (levelness) numbers along with confidence levels. For TR-34 tests, the report would display the number of tests that were run, the number of tests that failed, the percentage of failures, the 95th percentile of test values, etc. All reports should clearly show whether or not the floor passed or failed and provide a visual representation of how flat or level the floor is.

Did you know? RoboFlat supports not only ASTM and TR-34 standards but the ability to specify a custom standard as well. This allows engineers to specify unique tolerances for flatness and levelness. In addition, the curvature of the floor can be tested as well, and the RoboFlat report will include a curvature image that helps the remediation team see the deviations on the floor.

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