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Inside Medline’s Distribution Center: Meeting the needs of the healthcare community
Medline’s latest facility builds on the company’s success with automation to serve the demands of a critical industry.

Inside C-StoreMaster’s DC: Convenience store distribution simplified
At its new Huntsville, Ala., distribution center, C-StoreMaster has created stripped down and simplified processes to serve its customers.

C-StoreMaster’s convenient automation
C-StoreMaster is bringing a new level of robotics and automation to convenience store replenishment.

Guardian Industries transforms continuous improvement
In Indiana, Guardian Industries is using autonomous vehicles to lean out its processes, create a safer work environment and ensure more consistency in delivery of materials to its work cells.

Inside Pitman Creek: Re-design and consolidate for efficiency
A new system design allowed one of the country’s largest distributors of fishing lures to consolidate operations, increase throughput and lay the foundation for growth.

Inside North Shore Care Supply: Bringing robots to receiving
NorthShore Care Supply is an example of a small to mid-sized company optimizing its operations and controlling its costs with automated materials handling systems. Robotic palletizing is speeding up receiving and minimizing the risk of worker injury.

A Top-Notch Application of Robots
Top Notch Distributors employs autonomous mobile robots to create safer and more efficient distribution centers. They use AMRs from 6 River Systems in facilities in Nevada and Missouri with plans to introduce them in a Massachusetts facility in 2022.

Inside Top Notch Distribution: Bringing robotics to hardware distribution
Top Notch Distributors has charged up its distribution activities with autonomous mobile robots.

Inside HARTING Logistics’ DC: Advancing automation
HARTING Logistics’ new European Distribution Center is a showcase for warehouse automation.

SB Logistics moves toward lights-out warehouse
In Ichikawa City, Chiba, Japan, SB Logistics has implemented robotic systems for piece-picking and packing, along with automated storage and retrieval, conveyance and sortation. These are big steps toward a fully autonomous warehouse.

Inside SP Logistics: Taking robotics to a new level
SB Logistics’ facility uses a goods-to-robot automated picking and packing solution to provide same-day and next-day service to the city of Tokyo.

Allied Electronics & Automation’s DC makeover
In Fort Worth, a leading distributor of automation controls turned to technology and automation to accelerate growth.

Inside Allied Electronics & Automation Distribution Center: Automation electronics distribution
Allied Electronics & Automation brought together a shuttle system, pocket sortation and automated tote and pallet transportation.

Bergen Logistics: Not your father’s 3PL
A New Jersey-based 3PL puts high levels of technology and automation to work in its e-commerce fulfillment operations. The showcase is a robotic solution for storage and goods-to-person picking.

Bergen Logistics: Putting robots to work in a multi-tenant facility
Bergen Logistics uses a variety of order fulfillment solutions in its New Jersey location, depending on the client, including a goods-to-person robotic system.


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Materials Handling Robotics: The new world of heterogeneous robotic integration
In this Special Digital Edition, the editorial staff of Modern curates the best robotics coverage over the past year to help track the evolution of this piping hot market.
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Latest Resources

2023 Automation Study: Usage & Implementation of Warehouse/DC Automation Solutions
2023 Automation Study: Usage & Implementation of Warehouse/DC Automation Solutions
This research was conducted by Peerless Research Group on behalf of Modern Materials Handling to assess usage and purchase intentions forautomation systems...
How Your Storage Practices Can Affect Your Pest Control Program
How Your Storage Practices Can Affect Your Pest Control Program
Discover how your storage practices could be affecting your pest control program and how to prevent pest infestations in your business. Join...

Warehousing Outlook 2023
Warehousing Outlook 2023
2023 is here, and so are new warehousing trends.
Extend the Life of Brownfield Warehouses
Extend the Life of Brownfield Warehouses
Today’s robotic and data-driven automation systems can minimize disruptions and improve the life and productivity of warehouse operations.
Power Supply in Overhead Cranes: Energy Chains vs. Festoons
Power Supply in Overhead Cranes: Energy Chains vs. Festoons
Download this white paper to learn more about how both systems compare.