Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
May 01, 2016
…giant step away from the status quo, especially for 3PLs that typically shy away from automation, “you don’t disrupt by taking incremental steps,” Welty adds. Of course, the Kiva solution has now been around for nearly a decade. What’s more, it has been off the market since 2012, when Amazon acquired the company. Although Amazon is still supporting existing installations like the one at Quiet Logistics, that support will end at some point in the future. For that reason, if you travel a mile down the road, you can see necessity—and invention—on display at a 200,000-square-foot facility operated by Quiet.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.28
May 01, 2016
…editor Bob Trebilcock visits Quiet Logistics, a third-party logistics (3PL) provider of e-fulfillment services for premium fashion and apparel brands like Bonobos, Zara and Mark Weldon. And like the high-end brands it services, Quiet has built its own high-level image as a leader in putting mobile robotics to work and is now looking to build a reputation as an innovative robotics vendor. In fact, the story is one for a business school textbook. Back in 2009, during the depths of the Great Recession, the e-commerce boom was just about to be ignited, and the leadership team at Quiet saw a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.65
October 12, 2015
…Multiple companies, including Americold, the leading global third-party logistics (3PL) provider of temperature-controlled warehousing, and Ukrainian food processing company Myronivsky Hliboproduct have implemented automated pallet storage as a means to handle slow- to medium-moving products. These crane-based systems are ideal for reserve storage of items destined to replenish automated goods-to-person systems, as well as forward pick zones of manually picked fast-movers. Additionally, transitioning from manual to automated pallet load handling offers a variety of benefits in warehousing, distribution, fulfillment and shipping applications. Among them are: Cube maximization: High-density, rack-supported pallet AS/RS systems create dense storage to make full use of…
