In this issue:
- New Cold: Next-level freezer distribution
- Information Management: The future of inventory management
- Equipment Report: Conveyors & sortation
- Best Practices: Real-time location
- Special Report: Modex Show Planner
Modern Materials Handling Magazine Archives
January 2020 Modern Materials Handling
Automatic trailer unloading and automated storage come together to handle 3,500 pallets per day in and out of NewCold’s new distribution center.
In Burley, Idaho, NewCold built a 180,000-square-foot freezer distribution center that brings a new level of efficiency to handling frozen food, including a tight integration with its customer’s operations.
Total sales still matter. But few other measures do as retail morphs. While many want to characterize e-commerce as a great destroyer, it’s actually a great creator, bringing retailers and customers even closer together.
RTLS technology combined with the continued evolution of WMS user interfaces promises to take inventory management to a new level by allowing improved visibility and control. Here’s how RTLS may end up helping inventory management, alongside proven methods like vigorous bar code data collection and validation of moves within WMS.
After decades of steady progress, the industry prepares for a flood of technology to capture and act upon real-time location of assets, people and goods.
As the saying goes, you’ve got to break some eggs to make an omelet. That’s also true when designing new lightweight containers that can survive abuse on the manufacturing floor. Here’s the back story of what happens there.
Shuttle VLMs combined with specialty tool management software provide secure, compact and accurate tool handling.
The MMH Staff sat down with Daniel McKinnon, Executive vice president of exhibitions for MHI to discuss the upcoming MODEX 2020 show.
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Parcel handling on the move
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April Services PMI contracts following 15 months of growth, reports ISM
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