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Grob: Getting the goods to the person
In its new logistics center, German machine manufacturer Grob installed automated storage technologies and goods-to-person picking to speed materials to the assembly line.

Grob: How the system works
In Grob’s new parts and raw materials warehouse, automated and conventional storage work with goods-to-person picking to deliver parts to the assembly line.

Flexibility: The hallmark of today’s automated goods-to-person installations
A variety of equipment and installation options lets operations customize their handling to match inventory profiles, customer demands.

This month in Modern: Grob snaps together the pieces of innovation
We’re living in a wonderful period of “realization,” where mangers are taking the time to examine exactly what they need in certain areas of an operation instead of throwing the kitchen sink at a problem and spending millions in the process.

Nuclear power plant energizes parts storage
Vertical lift modules ensure accurate and secure access to thousands of critical maintenance parts.

SSI Schaefer and CareFusion collaborate in the pharmaceutical industry
Partnership combines CareFusion's expertise in high-density automation to register, store and pick medications with Schaefer's range of manual, semi-automatic and automated solutions for the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Other Voices: A three-year payback on an automation installation? Dream on!
Sure, it sounds like a pipe dream. But, when the right automation is designed for the application, it can pay for itself in just 36 months—or sooner?

Medline: How the system works
Goods-to-person picking is just one of the processes that allows Medline to meet its customers’ stringent requirements.

VLMs help warehouse keep up with precision machining job shop
New system provides 92% floor space savings and 30% additional inventory capacity.

Southern Wine & Spirits of America: Top-shelf distribution
In Northern California, the nation’s largest distributor of wine and spirits has built a state-of-the art facility that sets a new industry standard for automated distribution.

Southern Wine and Spirits: How the system works
Southern Wine & Spirits’ Northern California DC was designed to maximize throughput and accommodate growth for years to come.

AcuSport Corp.: Automation that’s right on target
A goods-to-person picking solution moved AcuSport from conventional to automated DC processes. The result is lower fulfillment costs and better customer service.

AcuSport moves from conventional to automated
AcuSport’s new distribution center features multiple picking methodologies designed to lower the cost of the company’s auto-replenishment program.

ProMat 2015: It’s still all about the software…again
Conveyors, shuttles and robots were on display, but as with last year's Modex, software is where the action is in today’s materials handling industry.

Numina Group and Ferretto Group unveil VLM with integrated voice picking
At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Numina Group (Booth 4709) and Ferretto Group demonstrated a vertical lift module (VLM) with integrated voice picking technologies.


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