Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.22
August 27, 2020
…design, manufacture, installation and after-sales service. Daifuku also acquired Netherlands-based Scarabee Aviation Group B.V. and Australia-based Intersystems (Asia Pacific) Pty Limited. Revenue from the acquired companies are not included in the current fiscal year results. Schaefer Systems International (SSI) was unable to report revenues by press time, so its 2018 figures have been carried over to comfortably retain second place. Following its acquisition by forklift and logistics leader KION Group in late 2016, Dematic is now a supply chain solutions operating unit of KION. The unit includes Dematic as well as Egemin, an automated industrial vehicle specialist that previously placed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.17
February 08, 2021
…Cargo is a member of the taskforce Vaccines Gateway Netherlands, where sixty companies are working together at Amsterdam’s Airport Schiphol to ensure the safe, secure, and swift transportation of the vaccines from manufacturer to end-user. The controlled-temperature transport and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is also a major challenge for the logistics integrators, who made investments into infrastructure and technology. UPS is building “freezer farms” in the Netherlands and in the United States featuring banks of -80 °C freezers. The farms will contain around 600 freezers that can each hold 48,000 vials of vaccine. Additional freezer capacity will be also installed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.80
October 22, 2022
…to real-world deployments for e-comm pack out. For example, Netherlands-based apo.com Group, a leader in automated online pharma, uses a fleet of RightPick piece-picking robots from RightHand Robotics to automate key parts of its order fulfillment process. The robots pick goods from totes coming from a cube storage automation from AutoStore and place order items into outbound cartons. The overall solution picks, scans and places thousands of SKUs a day. Vision and AI are applied to let the robot know how to pick, but also for how to correctly place items to a destination like a shipping carton, a tote,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.65
December 01, 2018
…the road TASS International’s genesis went back to the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). In 2013, after consolidating five divisions of TNO, TASS International was created. In September 2017, manufacturing titan Siemens acquired TASS International, in a bid to bolster its offerings to autonomous car developers. TASS International products and services are now part of Siemens’ Simcenter portfolio. TASS International’s products are: Simcenter Madymo, for restraint system design and occupant safety analysis; Simcenter Prescan, for virtual development and validation of automated driving systems; and Simcenter Tyre, for tire simulation and vehicle performance analysis. GPU maker NVIDIA’s DRIVE Constellation…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.72
July 09, 2018
…a score of 5.9 on overall infrastructure quality—behind the Netherlands at 6.2, but ahead of Spain at 5.5. “Logistics providers should not expect a sweeping modernization of U.S. infrastructure,” say the authors of the State of Logistics. “Modest upgrades in road, rail and airport infrastructure are likely in the near or medium term. As improvement projects move forward, logistics providers would face delays on affected routes.” According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the United States needs to invest $4.6 trillion in roads, bridges, ports and other infrastructure to bring the system up to grade. President Donald J. Trump…
