Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.42
February 22, 2023
After receiving 156 submissions for the 2023 MHI Innovation Awards from ProMat 2023 exhibitors, MHI has announced the four finalists chosen as the most innovative products in each category—Best New Innovation; Best Innovation of an Existing Product; and Best IT Innovation based on concept, value, and impact. Five independent judges comprised of professionals from the material handling and supply chain industry completed the initial review process. MHI is an international trade association that has represented the material handling, logistics, and supply chain industry since 1945. MHI’s over 900 members include material handling and logistics equipment and systems manufacturers, integrators, consultants,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.58
August 19, 2022
…Wave Automation, and Daifuku Wynright's applications to join the MHI industry group. MHI, formerly the Material Handling Industry of America, is an international trade association that has represented the material handling, logistics, and supply chain industry since 1945. Its members include equipment and systems manufacturers, integrators, consultants, publishers, and third-party logistics providers (3PLs). MHI offers education, networking, and sourcing for its members, their customers, and the industry as a whole through programming and events. The Charlotte, N.C.-based association sponsors the ProMat and MODEX expos to showcase the products and services of its member companies and to educate manufacturing and supply…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.37
May 15, 2022
…with The Robotics Group at the Materials Handling Institute (MHI) and the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC). It was distributed across our respective audiences (see sidebar below). For the purposes of this survey, we divided respondents into three categories: Those with no plans to use robots in the foreseeable future End users who are investigating the technology and plan to use it in the next two years Early adopters who already have robots up and running in their facilities What are the top three factors motiving your organization to pursue robotics for your warehouses and distribution centers? Source: Peerless…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.69
May 10, 2022
…(PRG), along with input from The Robotics Group at MHI and WERC, developed our first annual “Intralogistics Robotics Survey” that was fielded in the first quarter of 2022. We wanted to simply ask readers where robotics were in their plans. Are they currently still trying to understand how it fits in their operation? Are they in planning mode or even in pilot mode? Or are they taking a wait-and-see attitude? While the prospects are exciting, where are we in reality? Trebilcock dives in and puts context around the key findings of our survey. While our findings validate the robotics “buzz,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
April 04, 2022
…see. Hats off to the staff and leadership at MHI for pulling off a tremendous event at a time when there’s still a lot of uncertainty in the air. Exhibitors display incremental innovation So, what was my biggest takeaway from Atlanta? There’s nothing new under the sun. Well, that’s not exactly true – and it’s not meant as a criticism. On the new front, I saw a conveyance system powered by magnets at Beckhoff Automation that I’m still trying to wrap my head around. It’s called the XPlaner, and it’s easier to watch a video than for me to explain…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.57
March 24, 2022
…will co-present a Material Handling Institute-sponsored seminar with fellow MHI ASRS Industry Group members, titled, “ASRS as a Solution for E-Commerce, Online Shopping Demands, High Transportation Costs, Supply Chain Issues, and Product Shortages.” This seminar will be held on March 29, in Theater H, from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. Muratec will also showcase its CNC turning centers and line of AGVs, including the recently added A-Series line-up to its existing Premex vehicles. The series adds seven standard-based models that are customizable for a wide range of load capacities, lift heights, navigation methods, temperature ratings, and software applications, the companies said.…
Found in Robotics White Papers & Archives, with a score of 1.98
August 02, 2021
…most profound challenge dogging the industry. According to the MHI Annual Industry Report, more than half of companies surveyed rated hiring and retaining qualified workers as “extremely or very challenging.” While the issue is not a new one, it is growing. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports turnover in warehousing has grown from 40% to nearly 60% over a five-year period. These difficulties are not showing signs of abating in the near future, either. Due to broad demographic shifts, the U.S. workforce is actually shrinking. The civilian labor force participation rate, a measure of the workforce, has been sliding…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.08
July 09, 2021
The “2021 MHI Annual Industry Report,” conducted with Deloitte, opens with a quote from John Paxton, CEO of the Materials Handling Institute. “Supply chain resilience has never been more important,” he wrote. “Companies that made investments in digital technologies prior to the pandemic were more prepared and able to adapt, survive and even thrive during this disruption. They will also be ready when the next crisis inevitably hits.” Historically, when it came to the adoption of automation and emerging technologies, warehousing and distribution took a wait-and-see approach. For example, the automotive industry has been using robotics since General Motors installed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.44
April 09, 2021
…recent poll of 1,000 supply chain executives, Deloitte and MHI found that they anticipated that robotics and automation would be the biggest disruptive technologies in the industry over the next 10 years. The harsh truth While the current crop of mobile robots can reduce some labor, some time, and some costs, right now, the benefits have not been enough to justify the purchase of tens of thousands of such robots for some large corporations. In Walmart’s case, the benefits provided were not enough to justify the purchase of 1,000 robots, even though they were already ordered and announced. If industry…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.11
February 15, 2021
…Ill. Modern: Tell us about WERC’s new relationship with MHI. Mikitka: Last year, WERC was acquired by MHI. We are still an independent organization, with our own tax ID number. We’re keeping our office in the Chicago area and our staff. As we re-organize, we have an advisory council made up of previous board members. So, in that sense, many things remain the same. The biggest change members should see is access to some MHI benefits that we can now offer, such as the market data and trends they collect. They have some very good educational tools, like their fundamentals…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.27
May 22, 2020
…IAM Robotics was one of the four finalists for MHI’s Innovation of the Year award. “We got some good attention that year,” Galluzzo recalled. The following year, the company’s first commercial robot went live at Rochester Drug Cooperative, where I watched it work flawlessly over a 3-hour period one evening in the summer of 2017. Robotics in warehousing and distribution have been on an upward trajectory since then. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and pure stationary piece-picking robots, like those from RightHand, have gotten faster acceptance than the solution combining the two that IAM Robotics brought to the market. In part,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.33
January 08, 2020
…stalled labor productivity growth rate by 2030 ITA reports fourth consecutive year of record-breaking forklift sales In other news MHI’s annual report sees inflection point, investment spike, for digital technologies Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (TIEM) and Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A. (TMHU), to become Toyota Material Handling MIT and ASU serve up an online Master’s in supply chain management RFID companies innovate to harness growth opportunities ProMat 2019: Nearly 50,000 attendees set 34-year record Pack Expo Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging Expo 2019 break multiple records MHI announces formation of new robotics industry group
