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Maersk tackles flexibility and variability with innovation
With a focus on predictability and effiency, Erez Agmoni, Maersk’s head of global innovation, is adding new technologies to Maersk’s toolbox.

IAM Robotics introduces a new solution and a new direction
The new solution expands the capabilities of AMR picking within existing infrastructures

Other Voices: Maintain a vibrant safety culture with a holistic approach and meaningful training
Training, connectivity, communication and continuous improvement are some of the fundamentals for lift truck safety.

Automate 2023 analysis: Simplicity and speed will further robotics uptake
Automate show analysis of warehouse robotics trends. Robotic systems are cool, now vendors tap partnerships, integration, and easy-to-use software to make solutions simpler to deploy

What’s keeping the supply chain C-Suite up at night?
EY’s Sumit Dutta talks about the priorities driving strategy in the supply chain C-Suite

Lift truck computing: Practicality reigns supreme
New operating systems and form factors aside, forklift computing gear needs to match conditions and save time for operators.

Protective packaging roundup
Here are four great new ideas for getting the most out of protective packaging. Be sure to read all the way through—Walmart doesn’t often lend its name to someone else’s product.

ProMat 2023 – The Chinese are coming
At this year's ProMat, Modern met with three of the more than two dozen Chinese solution providers in Chicago to learn what they’re bringing to the U.S. market

ProMat 2023 – Automation at a crossroad
It’s one of the most exciting times in our industry

Kimberly-Clark turns to EARL to manage order bunching
The CPG giant is applying AI to optimize transportation from its plants to its DCs.

Jim Hoefflin takes the reins at Softeon
If ProMat 2023 taught us anything, it's an interesting time for the WMS industry

ProMat 2023 Insights: Integrated robotics direction seems well-matched to the times
Labor availability issues remain a core driver for warehouse automation and robotics, but ProMat exhibitors were also talking up analytics, algorithms, and digital twin modeling as a means of containing costs in inflationary times.

Future-ready your workforce on The Rebound Podcast.
On this episode, Ashok Viswanathan details the steps required upskill your workforce for the digital supply chain.

The circularity report, or how one company is doing circularity right
On this episode of The Rebound Podcast, Apto Solutions CEO Jeff Jones describes how his firm re-engineered its supply chain for the circular economy

For piece picking, it’s all about timing
RightHand Robotics’ appointment of a new CEO suggests the company, and the technology, are poised for growth.

Learn about Digital SCOR on The Rebound Podcast
ASCM’s Peter Bolstorff discusses the SCOR capabilities that enable digital transformation

Minimize shipments, minimize miles and maximize what goes into the trailer.
That's how Grainger is putting the E in ESG

Enabling the circular economy
With the focus turning to sustainability, one ITAD company is taking steps to step up its recycling and reporting efforts.

Last mile delivery is ripe for re-invention
New business models are transforming last mile delivery. Not all will survive.

It’s time to take a new approach to recruitment at the line
GE Appliances realized the old way of hiring industrial workers was no longer working. So, it took a new approach.


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Materials Handling Robotics: The new world of heterogeneous robotic integration
In this Special Digital Edition, the editorial staff of Modern curates the best robotics coverage over the past year to help track the evolution of this piping hot market.
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