Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.63
April 20, 2022
…million in Series B funding from Material Impact, Scale Venture Partners, and Calibrate Ventures. Past investors include ABB, FANUC, Honeywell, Tyson, and Yamaha.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.60
November 14, 2018
…to AR and VR deployments from GE, Boeing, and Honeywell, among others, demonstrate this growing momentum, though the aforementioned challenges are hindering scalability. “The enormous benefits that wireless technologies can help achieve, including predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, big data analytics, more flexible workforces, efficiency improvements, safety enhancements, and many others will combine to produce increasing financial and production incentives that cannot be avoided,” said Zignani. “Wired technologies are simply not adequate to address all the multifaceted needs of the varied devices that will make up the IIoT and will be far too costly to implement. However, in order to be…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.58
November 14, 2016
…as its hard to look at the KION/Dematic and Honeywell/Intelligrated couplings and not wonder how materials handling might look going forward. The fundamental challenges facing end users are age-old, including space utilization, inventory management and order fulfillment. But, between shuttles, putwalls, pocket sorters, robotics and software, we’re seeing new and ingenious uses of equipment and technology to solve those problems. What does it look like at KION and Dematic? To find out, I had a chance to talk to Riske and John Baysore, who is now Dematic’s president and CEO, right before PackExpo. Here’s what they had to say. Dematic…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.54
June 29, 2021
…Technology Ventures and Tekfen Ventures. Past investors include FANUC, Honeywell Ventures, Hyperplane Venture Capital, Material Impact, and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. Companies such as Tyson Foods are betting on adoption of robotic automation to help improve safety and increase production in their facilities to meet the demand for high quality, safe and nutritious protein products, said Soft Robotics. Tyson Foods is a leading producer of chicken, beef, and pork, and it has invested about $500 million in new technology and automation in the past three years. The company is an existing user of Soft Robotics. “At Tyson Ventures, we are…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.54
January 31, 2019
…2017 through 2022. Key players include Bosch, GE, Hitachi, Honeywell and Rockwell Automation. Increasing Product Availability The underlying architecture of a preventive maintenance model is fairly uniform. The analytics usually reside on a host of IT platforms, but these layers are systematically described as: data acquisition; data transformation—conversion of raw data for machine learning models; condition monitoring—alerts based on asset operating limits; asset health evaluation—generating diagnostic records based on trend analysis if asset health has already started declining; prognostics—generating predictions of failure through machine learning models, and estimating remaining life; decision support—recommendations of best actions; and human interface layer—making all…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.53
October 09, 2019
…industrial solution providers such as ABB, GE, Siemens, and Honeywell, and bring AI into brownfield deployment, lowering upfront cost and the barrier to adoption. Through their partnership with system integrators and regional distributors, these startups have also ventured into Europe, South Korea, and Japan. “The high labor cost and the quick time-to-market have driven U.S. manufacturers to be more aggressive with the adoption of industrial AI solutions. This has given birth to pure-play AI players in the US, and as such, keeps the US to be the global leader in industrial AI solutions. Over time, however, we believe that China…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.43
December 23, 2016
…unique combination of traditional and automated materials handling solutions. Honeywell to acquire Intelligrated for $1.5 billion Deal marks the second acquisition of a leading systems integration firm in the past two weeks. JDA announces $570 million equity investment from Blackstone and New Mountain Capital Investment to support research and development, including SaaS-based supply chain and omni-channel retail solutions. FORTE and Power Automation Systems rebranded under Swisslog WDS Swisslog Warehouse and Distribution Solutions acquired Forte in April 2015 and PAS in April 2016. KION brand Egemin Automation acquires Retrotech Acquisition to strengthen expertise in fast-growing market for automated warehouse systems in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.39
June 05, 2019
…NextGen Supply Chain Awards, sponsored by IDC. Sponsored by Honeywell Intelligrated, ASCM, Locus, PINC, IDC, Dematic and other organizations that are helping to advance the NextGen supply chain, the conference also featured cutting-edge technical sessions. Other highlights included nearly a dozen keynotes, sessions and panel discussions on the most important emerging technologies geared to senior level executives, and networking opportunities with peers, consultants, academics and leading providers of supply chain solutions. For those who could not attend, here’s how the conference played out over the two days. Day 1 highlights: AI, blockchain, and analytics Ron Castro, IBM’s vice president of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.27
April 12, 2018
…WES solutions, of course, weren’t standing still at Modex. Honeywell Intelligrated highlighted new capabilities in its Momentum package, and Swisslog showcased some of the newer functions for its SynQ WES solution, including condition monitoring software that collects, analyzes, and provides a workflow for appropriate action. The overall direction with SynQ is to leverage analytics and workflows to drive improvements from the data generated by warehouse automation, explained Steve Thorne, director of Solutions Architecture for Swisslog Warehouse and Distribution Solutions (WDS) Americas. So while the robots drew the eyes at Modex, it’s really the evolution of the software layer that sits…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.09
December 19, 2018
…applied machine learning to bear on real-world problems. Related: Honeywell and Fetch Robotics Deliver Autonomous Mobile Robots to DCs Related White Papers Material Handling Industry Makes the Digital Transformation The material handling industry is in the middle of a historic digital transformation from manual to automated processes in a distribution center (DC) and fulfillment operations. Download Now! Understanding the 3Rs, Range, Rate, and Reliability, of Robotic Piece-Picking This paper describes how to put robotic piece-picking to work for your company and how to start benefiting from reduced operating costs and predictable piece-picking capacity. Download Now! More Resources on; Robotics
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.09
March 25, 2022
…well as more than 80 integrator partners worldwide, including Honeywell Intelligrated, Matthews Automation Solutions, and Gray Solutions. The company's systems are also now available through a network of leading material handling systems dealers in North America, including Eastern Lift Truck Co. and Toyota Material Handling Systems of Atlanta. “With more than 45 years of experience, Toyota Material Handling Systems has helped warehouse and manufacturing facilities find and deploy the best solutions in material handling,” said Zach Smith, vice president at Toyota Material Handling Systems. “When the team brought OTTO Motors to demo at our facility for the first time, I…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.02
August 21, 2020
…says Suzanne McGough, WES product manager at automation provider Honeywell Intelligrated. “Our customers are looking at new avenues into advanced automation, which makes WES critical in utilizing those technologies, whether its robotics, other new systems and how to integrate new automation with what they already have,” says McGough. Since WES is always cognizant of the progress of work in different zones, a key function is bottleneck avoidance, says McGough. In DCs with human pickers, AMRs, and some lift trucks traveling the floor, a WES also devises routes and tasks to avoid congestion. “With warehouse execution’s waveless mentality, it’s continuously releasing…
