Automation

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.

There’s a lot going on out there. So, we did some hunting around and came up with five startups with novel approaches to materials handling and the supply chain. They include two packaging innovations, drones for monitoring inventory, a new approach to safety and a 3D printing platform that focuses on minimalism in the supply chain.

Listen in as Crystal Parrott, chair of The Robotics Group at MHI, discusses the state of warehouse robotics and MMH’s annual robotics survey, Executive editor Bob Trebilcock hosts.

McCormick Place in Chicago will host next year’s event May 6-9, 2024, and the show will be back in Detroit May 12-15, 2025.

This AutoStore e-book provides an overview of the technology, configuration options and key experiences of AutoStore users.

Download our e-book to learn the four critical elements warehouse and DC operators need as part of their strategic plan to capture and retain the warehouse workforce of the future.