In this Issue:
- HARTING: A showcase for automation
- Big Picture: Reader survey on diversity in DCs and warehouses
- Information Management: Stretching pick-to-light
- Best Practices: Conventional warehouses
- Equipment Report: Tuggers, casters and carts
Modern Materials Handling Magazine Archives
October 2021 Modern Materials Handling
“We can now digest the data and grow from here.”
HARTING Logistics’ new European Distribution Center is a showcase for warehouse automation.
In Germany, the industrial automation supplier HARTING set out to demonstrate just what warehouse automation can deliver.
Modern Materials Handling teamed with WERC, MHI and MHEDA for our first benchmark supply chain diversity study. The result: The industry is changing, but there is more work to be done.
Pick-to-light systems as a user interface have evolved, and the incarnations leverage the core speed and accuracy of traditional light guidance and may also reduce infrastructure barriers of traditional pick-to-light modules or put-to-light systems.
Well-defined processes, clean data, a little automation and a skilled workforce deliver that needed spark to conventional warehouses.
Providers of casters and automated carts aren’t quite reinventing the wheel, but they are evolving to better support the move toward automation. That means evolution in terms of caster designs that are maintenance free and easy to roll to support high uptime.
Returns are the bane of everyone’s existence. No one likes them or is that good at handling them. Yet, returns are part of the bottom line. As pressure builds there, expect to see automated systems increasingly get the nod for much needed control and discipline in the returns process.
Jaylo’s logistics platform for its client leverages adjustable racking and live pallet racking systems.
Go to the source—your operators—and get a handle on their power concerns, recharge patterns, and how these might impact productivity.
We’ve all heard it: Never waste a crisis. So now is a good time to take a look at how mobile bar code printing can replace some of the craziness of Covid supply chains with accuracy and speed of labeling parts for delivery.
Our editor sat down with Christian Dow, Executive Vice President, Membership and Industry Leadership at MHI to discuss diversity.
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