Automation

Companies are recognizing the need to marry the interests of stores and distribution centers, but it’s not always easy to determine what is for better or for worse.

Demand for protective packaging will benefit from strengthening Internet sales, using environmentally friendly materials like air pillows, paper fill products and custom boxes.

New courses and certifications help information technology and operations technology workers gain the skills to manage converged industrial networks.

ISA also finalizes agreement with Control System Integrators Association to offer web-based project management courses.

Students in OSU’s top-ranked undergraduate and Masters of Business Logistics Engineering program to use Eyefreight technology to solve company logistics-related challenges.

Associations encourage their members to participate in and contribute to FIRST programs.

Shipments up 17.9% when compared to November 2014 sales.

Company's technologies help connect disparate devices and control systems.

Marshall Retail Group packed a lot of automation into a compact space to replenish a network of 160 retail locations. The result: lower fulfillment costs, faster inventory turns and room to grow.

At 64,000 square feet, MRG’s Las Vegas distribution center uses processes and automation typically associated with much larger facilities.

In response to rapidly changing demands, autonomous vehicles of all kinds are making their way into the modern warehouse.

This month in Modern, we share a prime example of one of those “savvy, smaller operations” that’s packing a lot of automation into a compact space.

A look back at Modern's 2015 cover stories.

Continued consolidation, rapid technological advancements and labor challenges point toward an ambitious new year.

Third-generation family-owned company charts steady growth worldwide.