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Special delivery: Automated manufacturing helps Valpak By Bob Trebilcock, Executive Editor - 06/01/2009
Each month, a familiar blue envelope stuffed full of money-saving coupons and promotions arrives at more than 45 million U.S. and Canadian households from Valpak, a Cox Target Media Company and North America's leading cooperative direct marketer. Do the math and that works out to more than 500 million envelopes, and more than 20 billion coupons, mailed annually by Valpak.
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Manufacturing: Valpak's automated DC delivers Bob Trebilcock, Executive Editor - 06/01/2009
The materials handling system managing the movement of raw materials and finished products through Valpak's new St. Petersburg, Fla., facility is almost completely automated: For the most part, the role of materials handlers is limited to loading and unloading trucks. That level of automation will allow the company to accommodate future growth while remaining as lean as possible.
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Analysis: Intelligrated purchases FKI Logistex By Lorie King Rogers, Associate Editor - 06/01/2009
After months of speculation, on May 28, Intelligrated (www.intelligrated.com), announced it would purchase St. Louis-based FKI Logistex' materials handling operations from Melrose plc, a manufacturing investment group headquartered in the UK. With this move, the new Intelligrated will become a leading materials handling systems provider to the warehouse, distribution, postal and consumer goods ...
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Real-time locating systems basics By Sara Pearson Specter, Editor at Large - 06/01/2009
Real-time locating systems (RTLS) can offer visibility and efficiency to supply chain and manufacturing operations. They work by leveraging radio frequency identification (RFID) tags attached to the assets being tracked—tag signals are read automatically and continuously. Data collected about the tag location, as well as the speed of movement and information related to the asset, is proce...
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RFID: Flash in the pan? By John M. Hill, vice president, senior consultant, TranSystems - 05/13/2009
Want to know where RFID stands in today’s supply chains? John Hill reports from RFID Journal Live.
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Takeaways Tom Andel, Columnist, Modern Materials Handling April 30, 2009 Night of the Living Forklifts
People in my private life wonder how I can keep a blog going about lift trucks. They ... More
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