A flow spanning several buildings used to require a lot of manual handing in the transition points between indoor and outdoor areas. At Velux Commercial this was becoming a burden they could no longer accept.
Automation across the gate between indoor and outdoor areas is exactly what Capra Carrier is made for. Where previously, pallets would pile up by the gate waiting to be picked up manually, the robot now runs continuously to keep the flow going.
Read more about the project and see if Capra Carrier Cart might be the solution you are looking for.
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At a glance
IMPACT FOR ONE FLOW
1 forklift and 1 operator role freed
Yearly savings: 73.825,5 EUR
Payback Time: 13,2 months
5-year NPV: 218.235 EUR
Internal Interest Rate: 7,4%
CUSTOMER: Velux Commercial
INDUSTRY: Manufacturing / Building products
LOCATION: Østbirk, Denmark
SOLUTION: Capra500 with Capra Carrier Cart for standard pallets
Background
VELUX Commercial is part of VELUX, a global manufacturer of roof windows. At the Østbirk site, production runs across multiple halls, with material moving continuously from a central warehouse out to the production lines. Two pressures pushed the team to automate that flow: a tightening labor market and a clear ambition to keep people away from the heavy vehicle traffic the transport route runs through.
“Capra Robotics’ AMRs have become a stable and strategically important part of how we operate. A single, unified solution that moves materials seamlessly between facilities without manual handoffs. As we continue to expand our use of the solution, it’s proving to be a natural fit for where VELUX Commercial is headed.”
Søren Mogensen
Factory Manager, Velux Commercial
Challenge
The transport task runs on mixed indoor and outdoor routes shared with trucks and other heavy vehicles, passing through doors, gates, and across changing surfaces between concrete and asphalt. The core requirement was safety: the robot had to hold its own alongside that live while freeing the dedicated forklift and operator for higher-value work.
Main Story
Capra Robotics deployed a Capra500 fitted with a Capra Carrier Cart built to move standard pallets, so the robot works with the load carriers VELUX Commercial already runs, rather than the other way around. The robot runs fixed missions between the central warehouse and the production halls, and after an initial period aligning routes, gates, and network integration to the site, it now runs these missions in stable daily operation.
Results
The robot runs its daily missions autonomously alongside ongoing truck traffic, taking the operator out of that shared-traffic exposure entirely. VELUX Commercial has since expanded the deployment on its own initiative, adding a third route to a new production hall.
Next steps
With the first robot proven in daily operations, VELUX Commercial is scaling from a single unit toward a coordinated fleet, with a second robot scheduled for Q1 2027 and more routes already on the table. What started as one operator freed from truck-shared traffic is becoming the way the Østbirk site thinks about facility-wide transport.
Do you have a similar challenge? Reach out to Lau to find out how Capra Carrier Food can help you.
Do you have a similar challenge? Reach out to find out how Capra Carrier Cart can help you.
Lars Hee Hansen
tlf: +45 2481 6210
