Roberto Michel, senior editor for Modern, has covered manufacturing and supply chain management trends since 1996, mainly as a former staff editor and former contributor at Manufacturing Business Technology. He has been a contributor to Modern since 2004. He has worked on numerous show dailies, including at ProMat, the North American Material Handling Logistics show, and National Manufacturing Week. You can reach him at [email protected].
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Automation projects come with “inside the four walls” benefits, but when done at scale in a way that expands capacity, the ability to better service customers with a more capable DC network comes into play.
Exhibitors leverage AI, advanced chips, and various software advances to make robotic applications more effective and faster to implement
Ford’s massive new parts packaging DC in southeast Michigan deployed AGVs, automated packaging systems, and a mobile robot tugger system to realize efficiencies in its four walls. But those gains also help its entire DC network for vehicle…
Tailoring a shelf-to-person robotics system for extra efficiencies—not just adding more mobile robots and storage racks—yields optimal fulfillment performance for major distributor of imprintable apparel.
Exoskeleton startup HeroWear secures $5 million in Series A funding to expand its Apex 2 exosuit, a wearable back-support solution proven to reduce workplace injuries and fatigue in logistics, manufacturing, and other labor-intensive industries.
Think different truck types, different site environments and workflows, and don’t overlook pedestrian education to craft a suitable program.
National Forklift Safety Day comes once a year in June, but various sensor and vision-based, ‘operator-assist’ technologies, as well as telematics, are used daily to enhance the level of operator awareness for manually operated lift truck fleets.
Truck features help, while vision and AI technology can analyze movements when case handling.
Truck features help, while vision and AI technology can analyze movements when case handling.
The traditional vehicle-mounted computer has always had to stand up to harsh operating conditions, now communications flexibility and data insights are also part of these solutions.
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Regular inspection of all critical aspects of each truck can help curb maintenance costs.
AGVs use sensors to avoid collisions, but best practices can still make the environments they will operate in as predictable and productive as possible.
In tough times for attracting operators, having a fleet with operator- and application-appropriate comfort factors can help.
Industrial workstation and shelving options are abundant for effective pack-out areas. Configuring an ideal set up for your operation is part commonsense work-cell design that eliminates wasted or awkward movements, but technology can also play a…
