Automatic Guided Vehicles

New ways to justify materials handling automation

A tough economy could be good news for automation

One of the nation’s premier medical centers transformed a manual, paper-based warehouse into a state of the art facility using automated materials handling technologies to optimize the delivery of food, supplies, medications and surgical tools to more than 14,000 locations.

One of Canada’s largest retailers shares the lessons it learned from automating the manual materials handling processes with automatic guided vehicles in its pallet flow area.

Beverage distributor cans old layout in favor of new equipment and software.

Del Monte Foods’ new Topeka DC brings laser-guided AGVs from manufacturing into distribution. The result is a best-in-class materials handling system that minimizes costs with room to expand in the future.

Labor, retrofits and automation were on display at logistics conference

Dematic NA’s chief outlines customer benefits of newly merged companies at logistics conference.

What happens when the industrial age converges with the information age? The automation age.

Call them robots, AGVs or carts. But first call them solutions.

Best known in the US for AGVs, the company is developing a total solution for the end of the manufacturing line.

Arthur Barrett's invention launched the AGV industry

Kiva Systems, a developer mobile-robotic solutions that automate order fulfillment and warehouse operations, has appointed Amy Villeneuve president and chief operating officer. Villeneuve will be responsible for Kiva’s end-to-end customer engagement process, from sales and marketing through customer installation and support, and will report to Mick Mountz, CEO and founder.

One of the nation's premier medical centers transformed a manual, paper-based warehouse into a state-of-the-art facility using automated materials handling technologies to optimize the delivery of food, supplies, medications and surgical tools to more than 14,000 locations

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