Automation

From labor shortages to demand for ever-improved operational flexibility, this typically ignored class of trucks offers a chance to rethink your processes and even how you approach materials handling.

Modern's editor sat down with Steve Harrington to discuss the National Center for Supply Chain Automation.

The department store chain has doubled down on strategies it put in place before the pandemic. The result: Maximizing inventory and margins

The MIT professor, author and supply chain thought leader sat down with Bob Trebilcock and Abe Eshkenazi to discuss his new book and the future of supply chain management. Here are some excerpts.

Modern Materials Handling is proud to release this comprehensive, 21-page report covering the Usage & Implementation of Warehouse/DC Automation Solutions2 based on a recently completed survey of material handling decision makers.

The online retailer’s challenge was to design a system to quickly get new garments processed, ready for sale and out the door as efficiently as possible.

thredUP’s design allows the DC to quickly process orders.

Decreasing travel time to enable pickers to pick faster and more efficiently.

This nine-chapter e-book will offer you everything you need to know in a crash course on how to automate your packaging line.

This paper explores strategies for using automated storage and retrieval systems to gain a competitive edge during economic uncertainty. It discusses how to implement automation with minimal capital expense, and the importance of doing so during the COVID pandemic in order to secure long-term success.

A century-old company embraced automation and robotics in its transformation from a provider of postal meters to an operator of e-commerce parcel sortation centers for the Post Office.

A new facility near Chicago uses robotic induction and sortation to speed parcels from receiving to shipping.

Keep an eye open for your personal virtual summit invitation coming soon—this is solid advice you’ll want to put to work.

As more companies invest in warehouse automation, the ones that select and design their pallets early in the game are coming out winners.

AI and vision technology are making robotic depalletizing and palletizing solutions more flexible, but master data on SKUs still needs attention, and palletizing needs proper buffering and sequencing of cases to optimize the pallet build.