Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.71
According to a new report from IDC, digital transformation (DX) is the key overriding theme in IDC’s worldwide supply chain top 10 predictions for 2018, including the impact for supply chain planning, supply chain execution/fulfillment, and procurement and supply chain security. The report, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Supply Chain 2018 Predictions, indicates that although the predictions largely focus on the near term to midterm (2017–2020), the impact of many of these predictions will be felt for years to come. Most refer to a continuum of change within the wider ecosystem of the manufacturing industry and global economy. “The supply chain is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.84
Modern Materials Handling’s system reports in 2017 offered readers a look at the business model and system designs that serve as tangible examples of how end users have put equipment to work to boost productivity, customer service and company growth. Across manufacturing, warehousing and distribution applications, responsiveness continues to be top of mind. From e-commerce start-ups to century-old market leaders, the companies we showcased emphasized the importance of supply chain software to orchestrate dynamic fulfillment operations, ensure traceability and accuracy, and integrate disparate hardware and business activities. Robotics and automation also figured prominently in each facility. System reports this year…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.24
Michael Mandel, the chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute and a senior fellow at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School, has just declared the existence of the Internet of Goods. Writing in the October 17, 2017 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Mandel defines the Internet of Goods as “our term for the fast-growing digitization of the production, sorting and movement of physical products.” In other words, it’s the rapid digitization of everything we do in warehousing, distribution and fulfillment. At Swisslog we’ve advanced this concept under the mantel of Industry 4.0, shorthand for…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 10.57
Tompkins Robotics focuses on robotic automation of distribution and fulfillment operations. Beginning over five years ago with our robotic sortation solution, tSort™, we have continued to develop innovative solutions to provide our customers’ unmatched flexibility and capacity throughout their supply chain processes. We have added solutions upstream, like our Pick Assist AMR, PickPal, as well as downstream, with the only automated takeaway unit from a unit sorter robot, xChange. Our warehouse execution systems, tWES, links all these technologies and provides a broad solution set for our customers. Tompkins Robotics continues to evolve and enhance our customers’ operations with solutions that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.46
Bell and Howell has announced that it has been selected by Seegrid, a leader in connected self-driving vehicles for materials handling, for technical service and support in North America. The partnership expands Seegrid’s service capabilities as the company’s manufacturing and distribution customer base continues to grow. Seegrid self-driving vision guided vehicles (VGVs) provide flexible material movement in large manufacturing plants and fulfillment centers. Bell and Howell supports Seegrid’s portfolio of VGVs, including the recently announced GP8 Series 6 self-driving pallet truck, which offers fully automated material movement from pickup to drop-off. Bell and Howell’s service organization excels at robotics, production…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 11.57
inVia Robotics is an award-winning automation company that provides the next generation of warehouse optimization solutions. The company's system leverages autonomous mobile robots and AI-driven warehouse orchestration software to help e-commerce businesses and 3PLs automate and optimize material flow across fulfillment centers. inVia delivers its comprehensive automation services as a subscription, and its systems are built to deploy quickly and without disruption to existing operations. The results are a fourfold to fivefold increase in productivity and accuracy rates of 99.9%—at a fraction of the cost of traditional automation.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.59
Big Data, Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, the Amazon Effect—no matter what your business is up against, it’s probably safe to say your warehousing and distribution operations do not look like they did five years ago. Start-ups have shaken up the solutions landscape with innovative software, hardware and go-to-market strategies. Established systems suppliers have made meaningful shifts in how they provide solutions and services. In the process, the warehousing and distribution playing field has leveled somewhat. Thanks to consumer demands, massive automated facilities and mom-and-pop shops are expected to deliver similar service. And, thanks to faster and cheaper technology,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.08
Pushed by Amazon to compete with free delivery, often in two days or less, and to provide subscription-based offerings (such as curated box-of-the-month products or routine replenishment of consumables) atop incredibly slim margins, more omnichannel and e-commerce retailers are turning to third-party logistics and fulfillment service providers (3PLs) for fulfillment solutions. View: Top 50 U.S. & Global 3PLs “Just about everybody in retail is being dragged along by what Amazon does,” says Robert Lieb, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University who has surveyed 3PL CEOs for nearly 25 years. “They are trying to respond with an omnichannel solution…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.52
John Santagate Manufacturing Insights Title: Research director for service robotics Location: Framingham, Mass. Experience: More than a decade of experience, including advising leading manufacturing organizations on designing and implementing transformational supply chain innovation. Duties: The Global Supply Chain Execution and Fulfillment practice provides analysis and advisory services around supply chain technology, business process and cutting edge innovation. Modern: If any of our readers attended ProMat last April, they would have seen more robotic materials handling solutions than ever. What does the market look like? Santagate: There are three elements driving market adoption: collaboration, mobility and dexterity. If we’re talking about…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 12.27
Voodoo Robotics is an innovator in warehouse automation. Our goal is to provide the most cost-effective and revolutionary warehouse automation products on the market. Based in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, the main hub for warehousing and distribution centers in the U.S., Voodoo Robotics currently offers unique solutions to help solve the problem of warehouse inventory management and order fulfillment.Voodoo Robotics is an innovator in warehouse automation. Our goal is to provide the most cost-effective and revolutionary warehouse automation products on the market.
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 16.53
The OPEX Perfect Pick is a truly unique goods-to-person picking solution that was engineered to simplify order fulfillment technology. Perfect Pick’s – “one touch” design is based on a single automated component—the iBOT. Perfect Pick does not require lifts, complex conveyors, or multiple transfer points. Perfect Pick’s simple design and streamlined operations also results in a more flexible and scalable system that can grow at the actual rate a business grows. Companies can invest in technology to meet today’s fulfillment challenges, secure in the knowledge that Perfect Pick can quickly and easily adjust to unpredictable future demands and business cycles.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.99
Retailers lose $45B worth of inventory every year due to misplaced packages, stolen merchandise, and returned goods. In 2013, Walmart lost up to $3B due to discrepancies between inventory records and actual stock, according to Forbes. Now drone-based package-tracking tech could finally help solve this problem. Read: Walmart Testing Warehouse Drones to Catalog and Manage Inventory New research from MIT proposes lightweight drones that can help track and manage inventory in large-scale environments by allowing passive, long-range radio frequency identification (RFID) scanning. RFID tags have long provided a potential solution to the problem of effective package tracking through digital cataloging.…