Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.00
…the capacity to provide 19 million consumers with same-day delivery, 22 million with one-day delivery, and 51 million with two-day delivery. Executives from MonarchFx and NFI came together recently to sign the agreement to begin implementation of the RDMC. The Chino location is the first of five locations around the United States, slated to open within the next six months. The Chino RDMC will include Tompkins Robotics, the SensorThink IoT platform, the Softeon technology platform, and the Tompkins Warehouse Execution System, all working together in a seamless manner. Along with the NFI team, this solution provides a uni-channel distributed logistics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.57
…Smart postponement techniques and additive (3D) manufacturing will have been deployed by one-third of manufacturers by 2020, thus reducing delivery latency by up to 50%.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.24
…WMS allowed cookware manufacturer Lodge to double its business for the fourth time in 20 years and shorten order delivery time from 10 days to three. Rocky Brands sees the light Confronting an aging materials handling system and new channels of business with new customer expectations, Rocky Brands installed a put-to-light and sortation system to ramp up fulfillment. Click here for a list of our 2016 cover stories.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.91
…“co-pilots.” We are about to start testing several autonomous delivery vehicles in 2018, including our own DHL StreetScooter – thanks to our cooperation with AI computing company NVIDIA and ZF, one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers. And while most are still talking about Tesla’s splashy announcement, we’re taking action. Our DHL Supply division has just placed an order for ten Tesla Electric Class 8 Semi Trucks, making it one of the first third-party logistics (3PL) companies to do so. We’ll begin testing them in the U.S. once available in 2019. A Much-Needed Co-Pilot Both companies and drivers will benefit…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.69
…fulfillment centers and electronic shopping firms. In addition, express delivery companies and other local couriers boosted their full-time-equivalent workers by another 58,000.” Moreover, according to Mandel, “our research shows that fulfillment center weekly wages are 31% higher on average than brick-and-mortar retail in the same area. Amazon has famously stated its intention to add 150,000 seasonal workers to its fulfillment centers this year and you can bet that many of those jobs will become permanent. Even the most highly automated fulfillment centers require workers with a good mix of physical and cognitive skills. Increased automation, says Mandel, “will bring down…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.60
…in which drones reshape our cities – through remote delivery of goods, airborne surveillance, or as yet unforeseen applications. Yet one possibility has captured our collective imagination more than any other: the idea that drones will soon be moving people over cities en masse. Might flying taxis one day pluck us from our front gardens and delicately plop us down outside the cinema or our favorite restaurant? Before we mentally hail the next air cab, let’s consider what it would actually mean if the skies were filled with swarms of miniature helicopters ferrying people to their next destination. Though drones…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.10
…Administration for waivers allowing them to conduct tests of deliveries, drone air-traffic systems, long-range flights and other uses generally prohibited under current rules, Kratsios said. “These partnerships will allow local communities to experiment with new technologies like package deliveries”Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao The move is the latest attempt to jump-start an industry in which technology has moved at a rapid clip - only to be held back by regulatory and safety concerns. The government adopted rules allowing routine commercial flights last year, but with rare exceptions, it limited operations to short distances and ordered that they are kept away from…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.26
…to building out distribution networks to improve responsiveness and delivery times, strategic decision-making calculations have been upended in recent years. Tompkins, from his position as an industry consultant, first saw the writing on the wall around 2012, when he drew up some projections of what the e-commerce market might look like in five years. “When I put together some analytics, they were unbelievable—not that you wouldn’t believe them, but I didn’t believe them,” he says. “I saw Amazon getting into private label, being one of the largest if not the largest 3PL in the country with fulfillment centers everywhere, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.75
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 5.87
…companies are also facing increasing pressures on cost and delivery times from rapidly changing consumer demands. For employees, these changes demand increased productivity rates and hours. Additionally, many in the warehouse workforce still spend most of their time walking from one item to the next. The result is unhappy employees with turnover rates harmful to businesses. According to the company. robotics in the warehouse and distribution center is at a tipping point. Its products address these concerns by letting robots do both the walking and picking, freeing workers to focus on more value-added activities. In the warehouse automation market, current…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.53
…into its logistics strategy. Amazon has a clear interest in using drones (perhaps even talking ones) for Prime Now delivery, and tech observers believe its automated Amazon Go stores will utilize RFID technology to track the movement of goods. Source: CBInsights Related Article Inventory Management Trends: Inventory Reduction Download the Paper: Drone Relays for Battery-Free Networks
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.82
…end-to-end solutions efficiently manage customers' warehousing, manufacturing, transportation, distribution, delivery routes, and retail stores. About Körber Logistics Systems The Business Area Logistics Systems, belonging to the international technology group Körber and based in Bad Nauheim, Germany, is the leading provider of fully integrated applications for the optimization of complex internal and external logistics processes. Under the umbrella brand Körber Logistics, the Business Area provides digital solutions for smart factories (production logistics), warehouses, e-commerce, and the management of entire supply chains. In three Business Units, the umbrella brand unites the companies Aberle GmbH and Consoveyo S.A. (System Integration), Langhammer GmbH, and…