Zebra Technologies

A fulfillment solution from Fetch Robotics and parent company Zebra Technologies looks to simultaneously manage human labor and mobile robots, in what’s shaping up as a trend aimed at helping labor-constrained operations.

Building on faster, more robust communications networks, wireless devices from handheld terminals to autonomous mobile robots are on a path to increasing operational efficiencies, regardless of workforce challenges.

Automatic data capture just got a new ally, the edge. The technology allows everything from scanners to voice systems to process data on the edge of where it is collected. The result is real-time decisions that deal with reality, not some plan that no longer applies.

Modernization of key user interfaces to a custom WMS, along with new wearable Android devices, brought Mobis a 15% productivity increase and an additional 39% reduction in errors without changes to its WMS. The system now is also voice enabled for the future.

New Zebra study shows the pharmaceutical industry has a trust problem, but industry leaders say they’re trying to become more transparent

Top Notch Distributors has charged up its distribution activities with autonomous mobile robots.

With supply chains in disarray and the labor shortage persisting, companies across the board are turning to automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) solutions to help them work smarter, better and faster.

Latest Zebra study shows long-term changes to shopper behavior driving retailers to prioritize improvements in their labor and supply chain capabilities

Well-defined processes, clean data, a little automation and a skilled workforce deliver that needed spark to conventional warehouses.

Long known as a hardware-focused data collection company, Zebra Technologies is taking its solutions, and software, to the edge with a focus on software, analytics and optimization.

FourKites and Zebra alliance addresses visibility over freight, from the warehouse to the yard and across transportation modes

Deal for vendor whose AI-based software improves forecasts and optimizes inventory allocations grows Zebra's retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) software portfolio

The deal, for $290 million cash for the 95% of Fetch Zebra does not already own from a previous investment stake, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021, furthering Zebra's growth in intelligent industrial automation as part of the company’s focus on robotics.

Company acquires Adaptive Vision, which offers machine vision software

Allied Electronics & Automation brought together a shuttle system, pocket sortation and automated tote and pallet transportation.