In this issue:
- Resilience & innovation at Gap Inc.
- Reader Survey: 11th Annual Salary Survey
- Special Report: Top 20 ADC Suppliers
- Equipment Report: Insight into smart glasses
- Information Management: Scanning & mobile computing
Modern Materials Handling Magazine Archives
October 2018 Modern Materials Handling
Just months before the start of the 2016 holiday season, one of Gap Inc.’s distribution centers was destroyed by fire. Here’s the story of how resilience and innovation saved the day.
Gap Inc.’s Gallatin facility was designed to rapidly fill e-commerce orders while minimizing handling.
Materials handling professionals are as committed as ever to advancing the industry— although there is still plenty of room for young faces in this lucrative and fulfilling career.
As more information is captured at more points throughout the DC and supply chain, users and providers of scanning technology are reimagining how best to make sense of a data-dense world.
Providers of voice solutions see potential for smart glasses as multi-modal devices that can support a combination of voice, vision and scanning. Here’s how smart glasses can be used in DCs as well as where augmented reality technology is headed.
The right preventative measures can ensure safe, productive and efficient forklift operation in even the harshest freezers.
Today’s systems can include pallet or slip sheet dispensing, metered material flow, bag weighing and filled-bag accumulation conveyors.
Modern Materials Handling's staff sat down for a short interview to discuss how technology is enabling a more moblity in the workplace.
Disruption comes in many forms—a new app that hobbles the taxi business, historic weather events that put life on hold, millions of personal files hacked—and seems to be surfacing more often than ever.
Electronic work order system improves business economics and worker readiness during steady company growth.
Manufacturer improves GHS-compliant labeling efficiency and accuracy with bar code label design software.
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