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Welcome to A Day at ProMat 2023

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I spent the full day yesterday roaming the floor and meeting with exhibitors. The company is headquartered in India, has about 800 employees globally, and received a $154 million investment from majority owner Reliance Industries. ProMat 2023 is being held this week, March 202 -23 in Chicago.

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5 Myths of Making Robots Work with People

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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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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

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For companies across industries, transforming existing DCs and narrowing this technology gap is key to competitive advantage in a changing economy. Any company shipping physical products today – whether to consumers or to other businesses – needs to meet higher service expectations, including faster order turnaround in the DC.