Topic: Features

In Indiana, Guardian Industries is using autonomous vehicles to lean out its processes, create a safer work environment and ensure more consistency in delivery of materials to its work cells.

A fulfillment solution from Fetch Robotics and parent company Zebra Technologies looks to simultaneously manage human labor and mobile robots, in what’s shaping up as a trend aimed at helping labor-constrained operations.

Our annual automation survey finds increasing budgets for automation and rising interest in automated solutions with reliable parts availability, as well as turnkey, integrated solutions. And though budgets are up, stresses show around labor availability, raising its importance as a driver for automation.

Modex 2022 will feature hundreds of solution provider exhibits, educational sessions and keynote presentations featuring Shaquille O’Neal, Sanjay Gupta and Marriott’s Erika Alexander.

The labor crunch is a serious issue, not just for front-line employees in DC and other supply chain sites, but when it comes to higher-level supply chain talent, too. We surveyed supply chain professionals and found less than one-third feel their companies are highly prepared to handle demand with current staff, while two-thirds have increased wages to try to retain more people.

Building on faster, more robust communications networks, wireless devices from handheld terminals to autonomous mobile robots are on a path to increasing operational efficiencies, regardless of workforce challenges.

Sensors must be kept clean, but safe and steady autonomous operation should minimize unplanned repairs.

Modern's editor sat down with Daniel to discuss the upcoming MODEX Show.

Modern sat down with Rob Thyen to discuss 3PLs and Piece Picking Robotics.

Electric lift trucks are evolving to deal with pressures wrought by e-commerce, including labor shortages and higher handling volumes, through high- and low-tech means.

With e-commerce fulfillment as a catalyst, both the third-party logistics and cold storage warehousing market in North America continue to post healthy gains.

With e-commerce fulfillment as a catalyst, both the third-party logistics and cold storage warehousing market in North America continue to post healthy gains.

This equipment brings a strong blend of solid hardware and advanced data management capabilities to keep MRO parts secure, in-stock and readily available to techs.

Modern editors sat down with Carol to discuss the industry and other related topics.

This month in Modern, two features take the temperature of where we are in the application of robotics in warehouse/DC operations. Executive editor Bob Trebilcock takes us inside Top Notch Distributors, a leading supplier of architectural door hardware

With supply chains in disarray and the labor shortage persisting, companies across the board are turning to automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) solutions to help them work smarter, better and faster.

Fast opportunity charging and no battery swaps lead the reasons why lithium-ion batteries are considered well suited for multi-shift cold storage operations.

Randy Neilson is the chair of the Scan, Label, Apply, Manifest (SLAM) industry group at MHI. He is also president of Cubiscan. Stephen Pickfield is the vice chair of SLAM, and the co-CEO and director of sales and marketing for PSI Engineering.

Go to the source—your operators—and get a handle on their power concerns, recharge patterns, and how these might impact productivity.

Our editor sat down with Christian Dow, Executive Vice President, Membership and Industry Leadership at MHI to discuss diversity.