Automation

Seegrid’s former director of development from 2003-2007 returns to the company.

February shipments up 7.3% from same month in 2014.

PMMI currently offers six tests and plans to add Programmable Logic Controllers 2 later this year.

Founded in 1915 as a producer of coal mining equipment, the company now employs 14,000.

Bill to direct $5 billion in funding to 1,600 infrastructure projects throughout the state.

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

Though often characterized by feast or famine, this year’s view into warehouse and distribution center spending plans instead strengthens a pattern of deliberate investment. Today, readers are determined to get the most out of every dollar spent.

Modern spends 60 seconds talking to Jeff Burnstein, president of A3, about automation.

Demand for solutions in food and beverage applications among growth drivers.

Registration opens for 2015’s largest processing and packaging event in North America and the Las Vegas debut of the co-located Pharma EXPO.

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.

EnerSys (Booth 603) highlighted its NexSys battery and charger system for burden carriers, stock chasers, floor care and cleaning machines, automatic guided vehicles and other industrial utility vehicles.

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

Automated vertical storage solutions company Modula US (Booth 1026) announced a $6 million investment in manufacturing at its Lewiston, Maine, facility in a press conference on Tuesday.