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CNC Cloud App MachiningCloud Launches E-Commerce
California-based MachiningCloud continues to expand its online offering of e-commerce tooling partners.

Market for Robotic Palletizing and Depalletizing to Reach $2.4B by 2022, Say Analysts
Future Market Insights (FMI) report finds that smaller cases and pallet sizes drives need for robotic palletizers that can operate at a faster rate to process smaller loads

Kindred Announces Partnership With VARGO for Mutual Client E-Commerce Fulfillment Solution
Effort incorporates Kindred's artificial intelligence pick and place robotics with VARGO's warehouse execution system.

5 Things COVID-19 Might Have Told You About Your E-Commerce Warehouse
Here are 5 E-commerce warehouse issues during the pandemic, with suggestions on how to avoid and handle them going forward.

Will 2020 Be Forever Known as the Summer of Piece-Picking?
With the increase in e-commerce orders, now be the time piece-picking robotics come into their own.

Q&A: Rick MacDonald, DHL Supply Chain, President, Retail Sector, North America
Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Rick MacDonald, president of the retail sector for North America at DHL Supply Chain, about various topics, including the COVID-19...

Easy Steps to Ensure Social Distancing at Your Facility
As many distribution centers have ramped up production and operations with the increasing demand, ensuring the safety of workers is critical.

Startup News: Warehouse robotics vendor Exotec raises $90 million to support international expansion
Developer of the "SkyPod" 3D warehouse robotic system expanding in North America, including via partnerships with integrators AHS, S&H Systems, and Conveyco.

Materialise and Ditto Team Up to Advance Digital Technologies for Eyewear
The digital manufacturing technology makes it possible to shift from inventory-focused production to a more customer-centric approach.

Varner AS: Building the world’s best warehouse
That was the goal of Scandinavian retailer Varner. The result is a most highly automated, omni-channel retail distribution center that is also flexible, cost-effective, ergonomic and sustainable.

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Hits Milestone with Federal Aviation Administration Clearance
Retail behemoth Amazon.com took a big leap toward delivering goods from the sky by becoming one of only a handful of companies certified by the U.S. government to...

The 2020 Top 10 Materials Handling System Suppliers
Although the year promises to paint a different picture, the industry continued to build upon record growth in 2019.

DHL Supply Chain focuses on investing to address ‘The Most Unpredictable Peak Season Ever’
The company announced that it will hire 7,000 associates through the end of 2020 to meet demand fueled both by the peak holiday shopping season and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Robotic Fulfillment System Vendor Attabotics Raises $50M
Provider of 3D robotic fulfillment system raises $50 million in funding

Warehouse Picking During the COVID-19 Pandemic with a Fetch Robotics Cart
These are the emerging technologies that can help workers, customers practice social distancing more successfully intelligent automation, IoT and 5G may have come on the scene at precisely the right...

Shutdown’s Impact on Workstation Purchase, Electronics Manufacturing
Lenovo and MacroFab discuss mobile workstation sales and PCB production during the new normal

Robotics Finds Its Place in Fulfillment
Robotics has gained rapid traction in the last few years of economic growth and low unemployment, as companies began implementing as a means of increasing productivity and coping with the...

The Post-Pandemic Warehouse and Distribution Center Workplace
As the economy begins to recover, distribution center and warehouse operators will be challenged with not just operating efficiently, but safely - emerging technologies may help in the effort.

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) launches five new virtual events
RIA Robotics Week announced as trade group moves fall conferences online.

Top Five Warehouse Management Problems and How to Fix Them
Warehouse management is commonly associated with six basic tenets: accuracy, cost control, efficiency, cleanliness, safety and security, but the underlying processes are complex and dynamic, presenting major problems for warehouse...



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