Where Is Material-Handling Automation Heading in 2021?
Supply Chain Brain
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Mobile robots are carving out an increasingly important role in material handling, especially in the era of e-commerce and the coronavirus pandemic.
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Supply Chain Brain
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Mobile robots are carving out an increasingly important role in material handling, especially in the era of e-commerce and the coronavirus pandemic.
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Supply Chain Brain
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JANUARY 31, 2022
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DC Velocity
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Current materials handling and intralogistics equipment is amazingly reliable. The consumption and waste of packaging materials and their contents, damaged by underperforming or failed equipment, is reduced. Automation also reduces or eliminates the use of more polluting forms of materials handling equipment such as lift trucks.
Logistics Business Magazine
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Increasing need for material handling integration. To run an effective and efficient warehouse, material handling systems are required, and your WMS must be able to easily integrate with those systems. To learn more: Understanding WMS in the Cloud with Dan Gilmore. Rise of the warehouse execution systems (WES).
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Over the last 40 years, Tompkins International has evolved from a supply chain consulting firm into an end-to-end supply chain consulting and solutions company, with business units focusing on supply chain consulting and material handling integration.
Logistics Management
MARCH 13, 2023
After a banner year for materials handling automation indicators last year, our annual equipment outlook survey reveals a more conservative approach to spending on automation, equipment and related software—however, the indicators didn’t decline drastically.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 29, 2021
Seegrid Corporation, a specialist in autonomous mobile robots for material handling, has announced the addition of a Robots as a Service (RaaS) subscription model.
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Duravant, a global engineered equipment and automation solutions provider to the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors, announced the introduction of nVenia, LLC, a new operating Company within Duravant’s Packaging Solutions Segment formed by combining Arpac, Hamer-Fischbein and Ohlson into a single entity.
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Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 18, 2024
And almost all the large material handling vendors and systems integrators that don’t include that word in their title were also displaying bots. The best solution Fortna tested could only reliably handle three different sizes. Fortna is a leading material handling and warehouse design firm.
Supply Chain Brain
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JUNE 30, 2021
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JULY 5, 2023
Thanks to inflation, distribution facilities are faced with a 30% increase in spend categories — and material-handling equipment is no exception.
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 29, 2024
With brownfield investment, the layout of the building and existing equipment often limits what new material handling equipment can be employed. Consider upgrading software and material handling equipment like sorters. Continue to invest in the maintenance that will keep your equipment running at peak performance.
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MARCH 13, 2023
As the largest international materials handling, logistics and supply chain show and conference, ProMat 2023, produced by show sponsor MHI, will feature exhibits from more than 1,000 of the world’s top manufacturing and supply chain solution providers in more than 560,000 square feet of exhibit space—about 35% larger than in 2019.
Logistics Business Magazine
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
In response to this demand Toyota Material Handling Europe has announced a cooperation agreement with Gideon, a Zagreb-based technology company offering state-of-the-art software solutions for localisation and control of Autonomous Mobile Robots – AMRs.
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 26, 2023
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AUGUST 12, 2024
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In Taiwan, where the labour shortage is particularly acutely felt, Toyota Material Handling Taiwan, the importer of intralogistics systems and forklifts manufactured by the Japanese automotive giant, chose the recent Taipei International Logistics Show to introduce AirRob’s capabilities to the Taiwanese audience.
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JUNE 5, 2024
The Material Handling Institute ( MHI ) lists a number of technology subcategories within the AS/RS category. Warehouse Automation: AS/RS Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) are computer-controlled systems responsible for the automated movement and placement of goods, to and from set storage locations within a warehouse.
Logistics Viewpoints
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JULY 20, 2022
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Clark Material Handling is pleased to announce the establishment of its Global Headquarters in the United States. Since the forklift was invented by Eugene Clark in Buchanan, Michigan (USA) in 1917, CLARK has been one of the worldwide market leaders in the material handling equipment business.
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The company consulted its long-term materials handling equipment provider Toyota Material Handling (UK) for a solution. Studies undertaken by Toyota highlighted that it took the lift truck six minutes to cover the distance between the site’s ‘jelly line’ and the finished goods warehouse.
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