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Storeganizer Pick 360: A Dense Pocket Pick Face Built for Mobile Robots

Pick 360 pairs Storeganizer textile pocket units with autonomous mobile robots. The pockets provide a dense, passive, barcoded pick face; the AMRs take the travel out of the picking. No rack modification, no software in the storage, and no lock-in to one robot platform.

Storeganizer Picking Hive mobile pocket unit on a standard pallet footprint

60

Pockets in an extra-small Hive

48″ x 42″

Standard pallet footprint

Minutes

To set up, by one person

Any AMR

Passive, platform-agnostic face

What it isPicking HiveHow it worksWhere it fitsStorage vs automationFAQs

What Pick 360 actually is

Storeganizer Picking Hive fitted with medium textile pockets

Pick 360, sometimes referred to as “the Hive”, is a way of configuring Storeganizer pocket storage as the front end of a robot-assisted picking operation. It is important to be clear about what is in the box and what is not: what MH-USA supplies is dense, passive, textile pocket storage — mobile units or rack-hung columns — designed so autonomous mobile robots can work to and from it. The robots, their fleet software and their integration come from your AMR vendor.

That division is deliberate, and it is the main reason customers like the approach. The storage half of the system has no power, no controls, no software and no service contract, so it does not age with the robot platform and it is not stranded if you change vendors. The dense pick face keeps working even if you never deploy a robot at all.

Why this exists

Two pressures drove it. E-commerce piece-pick volume kept rising after its pandemic step-change, and warehouses near large economic centres face persistent labour shortages and wage pressure. Both problems point at the same place: the number of picks a person can complete in a shift, most of which is walking rather than picking.

The Picking Hive

The Hive is the mobile form of the pocket system: a self-supporting frame the size of a standard pallet footprint, filled with the same coated industrial textile pockets used in rack-hung Storeganizer bays. The top suspension is universal, assembly clicks together without tools, and one person can set a unit up in a few minutes. There is nothing to anchor and nothing to wire.

Size Reference number Pocket (W x D x H) Pocket max weight Pockets per unit Frame (W x D x H) Frame max weight
Extra Small PH-XS-US-404154 14.5″ x 19.5″ x 6″ 44 lb 60 48″ x 42″ x 76.5″ 1,320 lb
Small PH-S-US-404920 14.5″ x 19.5″ x 12″ 44 lb 30 48″ x 42″ x 76.5″ 1,320 lb
Medium PH-M-US-404921 14.5″ x 19.5″ x 20″ 44 lb 18 48″ x 42″ x 76.5″ 792 lb
Specification sheet for the extra small Storeganizer Picking Hive pocket and rack configuration
Extra small Picking Hive: 60 pockets on a pallet footprint.
Specification sheet for the medium Storeganizer Picking Hive pocket and rack configuration
Medium Picking Hive: 18 larger pockets for bulkier items.

Textile grades run from light Tiger fabric to heavy-duty PC380 rated to around 500,000 abrasion cycles, and pocket inserts can be swapped as the product mix changes — so a unit configured for small parts this year can be reconfigured for cartons next year. Full specifications are on the Storeganizer specifications page.

How robot-assisted picking uses a pocket face

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Goods-to-person

A mobile pocket unit is brought to a stationary picker at a workstation. The picker never walks; the robot handles the travel. Suits high-volume, repetitive piece picking.

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Person-to-goods

The robot follows the picker through a dense static pocket face and optimises the route between locations. Suits varied orders across a wide SKU range.

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AMR, not AGV

Autonomous mobile robots navigate with sensors and on-board intelligence, routing around obstacles, rather than following the fixed guide paths an AGV needs. No floor wire, tape or track.

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Scan-verified locations

Every pocket carries a label or barcode holder, so the pick is confirmed against a single unambiguous location whether a person or a robot brought you to it.

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Reconfigurable

Pocket inserts swap out and units roll to where the work is. A temporary pick line for a promotion stands up and stands down again in an afternoon.

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Density first

Because the face is dense before any robot arrives, most operations find they need less automation than originally scoped.

Start with the pick face

Before you scope robots, work out how dense your pick face could be. The free Storeganizer Designer sizes rack-hung bays and returns the pick-location count and a bill of materials. For Picking Hive quantities, call us.

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Where Pick 360 fits

Third-party logistics pharmaceutical warehouse operationE-commerce & 3PL fulfilmentHigh piece-pick volume, many SKUs, low units per SKU, and a labour constraint that will not resolve itself.
Storeganizer pockets holding bagged apparel for retail and e-commerce fulfilmentRetail backroom, BOPIS & returnsClick-and-collect staging, curbside orders and unpredictable returns volumes on mobile units that need no installation.
Hand lifting a boxed part out of a Storeganizer textile pocketTemporary & seasonal pick linesA dense face that stands up for a peak or a promotion and rolls aside afterwards, with no structural work either way.

Be clear about the boundary before you buy

Automation projects get into trouble when the scope is fuzzy, so here is where our responsibility ends and your robot vendor’s begins.

Element Supplied by MH-USA Supplied by your AMR vendor
Textile pocket units, pockets, dividers, covers, label holders Yes No
Rack to hang columns in, and installation Yes No
Layout of the pick face, slotting and location scheme Yes, as part of the design service No
Robots, charging, fleet management software No Yes
WMS / WES integration and pick logic No Yes
Floor flatness, network coverage and safety assessment for robot operation No — advisory only Yes

Our honest recommendation

Densify the pick face first and measure it. In several documented operations the density gain alone delivered most of the improvement people expected from automation — one distribution centre evaluated vertical carousels and paternosters and concluded the benefits were far smaller than a pocket-column solution at a fraction of the cost. Once the face is dense and well slotted, you will know precisely how much automation you actually need, and the robot business case gets easier rather than harder.

Pick 360 FAQs

What is Storeganizer Pick 360?
Pick 360 is the Storeganizer pocket system configured as a pick face for autonomous mobile robots. The pocket unit — often the mobile Picking Hive — provides the dense, static storage front, and AMRs handle the travel between that face and the packing area. It is an AMR picking enabler rather than a robot or a piece of software.
What is the Picking Hive?
A self-supporting mobile Storeganizer unit that occupies a standard pallet footprint. It holds textile pockets the same way a rack bay does, needs no rack and no installation, and one person can set it up in a few minutes with a click-together assembly.
What sizes is the Picking Hive available in?
Three standard US sizes on a 48″ wide x 42″ deep x 76.5″ high frame: extra small with 60 pockets of 14.5″ x 19.5″ x 6″ (PH-XS-US-404154, frame rated 1,320 lb), small with 30 pockets of 14.5″ x 19.5″ x 12″ (PH-S-US-404920, 1,320 lb) and medium with 18 pockets of 14.5″ x 19.5″ x 20″ (PH-M-US-404921, 792 lb). Pockets are rated at 44 lb each.
Is it tied to one brand of robot?
No. The pocket unit is passive storage, so it works in front of whichever AMR platform you choose or already run. That is the point of specifying it as an enabler rather than as part of an integrated automation package.
Do I need Pick 360 to get the benefit of Storeganizer?
No. Most customers start with rack-hung pocket columns and no robots at all, because densifying the pick face is where the majority of the gain comes from. Pick 360 is what you add if travel between a dense face and packing is still the bottleneck.
Goods-to-person or person-to-goods?
Either. AMRs can bring a mobile pocket unit to a stationary picker, or follow a picker through a dense static face and optimise the route. Which one is right depends on your order profile, your building and your labour situation.
How quickly can it be deployed?
Fast, because nothing about the storage side is structural. Mobile units need no installation and no rack; rack-hung columns hang on existing beams with no drilling, anchoring or electrical work. The robot deployment timeline is set by your AMR vendor, not by the pocket units.
Where does it make the most sense?
Operations with high piece-pick volume and a labour constraint: e-commerce fulfilment, returns processing, temporary pick lines set up for a peak or a promotion, retail back rooms handling click-and-collect, and healthcare or distribution operations picking many small items per order.

Work out whether you need robots or just a better pick face

Tell us your order profile, your pick rates and where the bottleneck is. We will size the pocket face — and say plainly if automation is the part you actually need.

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