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North American manufacturers are expanding operations and increasing output. Here’s how the materials handling industry is enabling the emerging comeback.

Last year, the global market for automatic data capture solutions (ADC) used in factories, warehouses and logistics applications reached $11.264 billion in sales, according to VDC Research Group. The ADC market includes handheld and stationary bar code scanning and imaging devices, bar code printers, RFID solutions for the supply chain and ruggedized mobile computing solutions for the factory and warehouse.

When Dansko designed a new distribution center, it went for efficiency, growth and a system as unique as its brand.

In Dansko’s new 200,000-square-foot distribution center, conventional full case picking and mobile robotic split case picking come together for an efficient, ergonomic and unique solution.

The ADC market grew incrementally in 2012 amid changing customer interests and stiff competition.

Best practices for integrating mobile, wireless and data capture technologies into warehouse management.

Analysts are pointing to 2012 as the year in which warehousing was finally recognized as a competitive weapon for multichannel online businesses. Progressive companies like Amazon.com are rapidly advancing the art and science of one of the supply chain’s most important—and most customer-facing—functions.

The handbag and accessories maker’s new DC was designed to handle store replenishment, wholesale distribution and direct-to-consumer sales under one roof.

Vera Bradley makes the most of pick-to-light and put-to-light methodologies to optimize order fulfillment.

Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common web access device worldwide by the end of 2013.

The Motorola Solutions Future of Warehousing Survey polled warehouse IT and operations professionals in the manufacturing, retail, wholesale and third-party logistics (3PL) markets on the state of warehousing today and their vision for warehousing and distribution in the future.

How warehousing operations and IT professionals are responding to the significant changes and challenges facing the industry over the next five years.

In today’s aggressive marketplace, there’s no room for continual delays and costly disruptions to production. Whether they’re managing a single food processing facility or a string of multinational automotive plants, manufacturers are looking for new ways to improve performance, increase safety, optimize resources and run their operation smoothly.

With AS/RS, voice-directed picking and high-speed sortation, Wirtz Beverage Illinois takes the lead in wine and spirits distribution.

Wirtz Beverage uses both cutting edge automation and conventional processes to move product through its new facility.