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Business Leaders Voice the Economic Impact of COVID-19
While the impacts of COVID-19 varied between advanced and developing economies, business leaders across the board identified some common features that helped countries remain resilient.
Seven Qualities to Ensure a Successful WMS Implementation and Long-Term Success
Implementing new software is a challenge even with the best of software partners assisting, you will be launching a very complex project and you will never be able to assemble the perfect team for the task, so what defines a software partner?
Reducing Costs of Returns in the Omnichannel Supply Chain
The simple fact of the matter is that any customer-facing organization must support the ideology of processing returns; whether or not that process can be efficient and productive comes down to how returns are handled.
Robots in the Warehouse
Download this paper and get an in-depth look at how robots are transforming warehouses and distribution centers worldwide into highly-efficient, automated spaces that fully leverage the power of digitalization.
Key Considerations When Automating Your Warehouse
Now more than ever, robots are transforming e-commerce fulfillment operations by bringing consistency, efficiency, and flexibility to material handling in the warehouse.
Opportunity Charging and Autonomous Charging for Robot Batteries
You’ve dipped your toes into robotic automation, hammering out the details of the problems your robots will solve and how to deploy them, but what about keeping them moving?
The Future of Freight: Einride Unveils New Driverless Vehicles for Autonomous Freight Hauling
Einride, the Swedish autonomous trucking startup, unveiled a new vehicle type that the company hopes to have on the road delivering freight starting in 2021.
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.
Mobile Robotics and Safety: Building a Better Work Environment
Advancements in underlying technologies have made robotics increasingly attractive, these technologies enable solutions that reliably practice facility traffic protocols...allowing them to drive productivity and work according to safety guidelines.
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.
On Air with SICK USA: Why is SICK Excited About Robotics?
In this episode of SICK, Inc.’s podcast, On Air with SICK USA, two SICK experts provide insights on mobile robots and industrial vehicles in the market and SICK's role in the world of mobile robots.
The Business Case for Collaborative Mobile Robotics
Based on interviews with more than 25 early adopters of collaborative mobile robots, this report assesses how collaborative mobile robots address today's top fulfillment challenges.
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 operate as a drone airline.
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.
Expanding Warehouse Execution Systems to Encompass Wide-Ranging Distribution Center Solutions
Warehouse Execution Systems providers say the software orchestrates the overall flow of work across all distribution center resources and is increasingly employing artificial intelligence and machine learning.
How an Intelligent Control Tower Can Provide Autonomous Problem-Solving For Your Supply Chain
Today’s control towers provide powerful capabilities and real-time responsiveness with autonomous problem-solving, global demand-supply matching, and global available-to-promise, achieving increased efficiency, resilience, and world-class performance.
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 time.
Supply Chain Education in the Post-COVID World
As the business world continues to reinvent itself, here’s a look at how supply chain executive education could evolve over the next year.
Podcast: eKAMI Reskills Coal Miners for Machining and Automation Careers
Displaced workers trained in hard and soft skills for CNC operation and robotics.
UPS Ecommerce Fulfillment Strategy for Creating the Supply Chain Warehouse of the Future
UPS, one of the world’s largest parcel delivery services, is redesigning its fulfillment processes to meet new challenges, inside and outside the warehouse.
Featured Companies
Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers in Silicon Valley who wanted to prove that electric cars could be better than gasoline-powered cars. With instant torque, incredible power, and zero emissions, Tesla’s products would be cars…
Plus.ai is a world leader in self-driving truck technology. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with R&D offices in China, it was founded in 2016 by a group of serial entrepreneurs and industry veterans with over 20 years of experience in…
We are Otto, the company rethinking the future of transportation - starting with self-driving trucks. We’re a team of forward-thinking technologists and innovators, dedicated to revolutionizing the way we approach transportation in America. We’ve come together from the…
Fetch Robotics builds robot systems for the logistics industry. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Fetch is targeting light-industrial users. Fetch’s human-sized robots are mobile and can perform tasks like locating items in…
Yaskawa Motoman delivers innovative robotic automation solutions for virtually every industry and robotic application, including arc welding, assembly, coating, dispensing, material cutting (laser, plasma, waterjet), material handling (diecast, machine loading, packaging, palletizing, part transfer, press tending), material removal (deburring, polishing,…
Delft University of Technology
TU Delft collaborates with a large number of other educational and research institutes within the Netherlands and abroad and has a reputation for high-quality teaching and research. TU Delft has extensive contacts with governments, trade organisations, consultancies, the industry and…
OMRON Industrial Automation: As part of the global Omron Corporation, Omron Automation & Safety is a worldwide company and leading manufacturer of technologically advanced industrial automation products and application expertise. With its Pan Americas headquarters in Illinois, USA, Omron Automation …
Vecna Robotics is the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that helps distribution, warehousing, and manufacturing organizations streamline their materials handling and logistics operations. The company’s high-capacity AMRs are equipped with the most advanced navigation system in the industry -…
The Mass Technology Leadership Council
The Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) is the region’s leading technology association and the premier network for tech executives, entrepreneurs, investors and policy leaders. MassTLC’s purpose is to accelerate innovation by connecting people from across the technology landscape,…
RightHand Robotics is a leader in providing end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment of electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and countless other industries. Unlike traditional factory robots that can be complex to set up and are singly purposed,…
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