Modern Materials Handling Magazine Archives

GE Appliances may not have taken all of the touches out of its distribution processes, but it has reduced them to a bare minimum, increased the velocity of product moving through its facilities and sped up training time. The key: A digital transformation with next-generation technologies like IoT, AI and VR.

Distribution in GE Appliances’ new facility in Commerce, Ga., moves product from the yard to an outbound trailer quickly and efficiently.

Coping with growth and change is never easy, but it’s particularly challenging in a tight labor market in which the cost of industrial real estate has spiraled upward. As this year’s survey results show, respondents are rolling up their sleeves and coping with change by leveraging additional technology, as well as by increasing attention on training, pay rates and data quality.

As the modern warehouse continues to evolve, ADC equipment and the companies that develop it are playing pivotal roles in its progression.

Materials handling professionals continue to enjoy the industry’s exciting pace of innovation and are hungry to tackle the challenge.

Over the past decade, Peerless Research Group (PRG), commandeered by 30-year research veteran Judd Ashenbrand, has been staying on top of the behaviors, attitudes and trends shaping the warehouse, distribution and supply chain management markets.

While autonomous mobile robots can reduce the labor requirement that warehouse operators often struggle to fill, in many cases, AMRs are deployed to work alongside humans—­not in place of them. Find out why a Lockheed Martin warehouse that fills orders for aviation parts deployed mobile robots, and how they’re viewed as helpers by their human co-workers.

With new navigation capabilities, flexible automation, maintenance options and software capabilities, the automatic guided vehicle market is more dynamic and versatile than ever.

Productivity in coolers and freezers depends on operator comfort and equipment durability.

Modern's editors sat down with Dwight Klappich, Vice President of Supply Chain Research at Gartner to discuss warehousing fulfillment technologies.

Proprietary design and materials are the ticket to protection in a rough-and-tumble supply chain.