Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

Distribution is no longer a backwater of the economy, due in large part to the upheavals brought on by ecommerce. But there is a technology gap between gleaming new automated facilities and tens of thousands of existing warehouses and distribution centers that pre-date the warehouse building boom of the past 5-10 years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In most cases, a WMS follows basic logic and location sequence pick paths in allocating work. But it is not looking at batch and path optimization without robots. To be truly optimized, you need to harmonize the travel of both robots and humans. They dynamically travel to the most optimized pick and meet the AMR there.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

At most, robots will slow the growth in hiring in warehouses and distribution centers. Newer AMRs from companies like Locus Robotics can also travel to pick locations where they meet workers who pick and place items on the robots (robot-to-goods picking, as opposed to goods-to-man).

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