Automation

Q4 shipments grew 33% from the pervious year, with shipments of 8,825 robots valued at nearly half a billion dollars.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi will use the OTTO 1500 self-driving vehicle for tire delivery in its assembly plant.

New credentials to help close high-tech industrial maintenance skills gap for the Midwest auto-corridor and nationally.

Market rebounds considerably over 2015's down year, with large segments posting double-digit growth.

December booked orders up nearly 50% from November 2016.

Your ProMat 2017 registration not only gives you access to the exhibits, educational sessions and keynotes in McCormick Place South and North, it also grants you access to Automate 2017, co-located next to ProMat solutions centers for Autonomous Vehicles and Sustainable Facility Solutions in the North Hall.

Initial focus will be industrial storage and retrieval hardware and software business before expanding into integrated systems.

Facility to support demand for pallet shuttle automated storage and retrieval systems.

38,000-square-foot facility to house engineering, manufacturing, sales and administration.

J&J Vision Care brings together a variety of automated technologies, including an innovative goods-to-person picking solution, at its Jacksonville DC.

In a new “manufacturing outlook” report focusing on the automotive and industrial sectors, AlixPartners observes that many of the labor-cost advantages associated with near-shoring may be lost if companies fail to spend more on automation in the future.

Investments in robotics and automation can start in a single work cell.

In the quest to identify and control maintenance costs, fleet-tracking devices can support the goals of the operator and manager.

Modern Materials Handling sits down with General Member, Automation Solutions Group (ASG) and Innovation Manager at Caterpillar.

AlixPartners 2016 annual survey of manufacturing and distribution companies serving North America and western Europe found that 69% say they consider near shoring a possible opportunity to meet US and European demand, this up from just 40% in last year’s analysis.