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Society of Fire Protection Engineers
Engineering a Fire Safe World
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SFPE-NCR AMAZON FULFILLMENT CENTRE FACILITY TOUR
June 21st, 2023 1:30 pm-3:30 pm EDT
In-person Event
Details:
Address: Amazon Warehouse West, 222 Citigate Dr, Barrhaven ON
Date: June 21, 2023
Start Time: 1:30 - please show up at 1 pm
End Time: 3:30
Must provide ID at check-in (Driver’s License is sufficient)
No pictures are allowed inside the facility.
Agenda:
Tour will be focused on key areas of fire protection design and equipment. It will cover special considerations for design, unique robotic equipment, and design requests from the owner. Areas that will be toured include:
- Fire panel locations/smoke exhaust/air purge/fire pumps/water tower
- High level overview of the site flow/site layout
- Hazmat locations/pallet storage/combustibles
- Amazon Robotics floors access
- Charging stations locations
Overview:
Amazon Canada's latest and most technologically advanced facility opened in Barrhaven in 2022, YOW3. It is considered their newest and most advanced robotics facility.
The only facility of its kind in Canada, and one of only five around the world. The facility is more than 2.6 million square feet across four floors and will store up to 20 million items at a time. It has the capacity to handle over 100,000 packages daily. The plan is to have a total of 2,500 associates employed.
Operating among these items are Amazon's ROBIN, RWC4, and Kermit robots, each designed to improve employee experience by enhancing safety and productivity. ROBIN is a robotic arm that can segment, grasp, manipulate, identify, and place a package onto a sort bot, improving the employee experience by supporting employees with repetitive tasks.
RWC4 is a robotic arm that sorts totes, the logistical units of an Amazon facility centre, by destination and builds pallets and Kermit is a trolley that focuses on towing empty totes throughout the facility and can adjust its speed and route as needed.
Attendees will be taken on an exclusive, behind closed doors, tour of the facility. We will be hosted by CBRE, Broccolini, and staff from Civelec, who did the fire design.
