In this Issue:
- It's time to optimize packaging
- Reader Survey: Annual pallet user survey
- Equipment Report: Sustainable packaging
- Best Practices: Pack stations
- Information Management: Robots edge into packaging
Modern Materials Handling Magazine Archives
October 2022 Modern Materials Handling
With all the emphasis these days on automation, conventional warehousing is often overlooked if not forgotten. In fact, conventional warehousing is alive, well and thriving even at high-volume facilities and in e-commerce.
With Pack Expo 2022 right around the corner, we take a look at the trends driving packaging today.
Our annual Peerless Research Group study highlights the current and projected use of pallets in fulfillment centers plus other trends taking place in the pallet market.
Packaging equipment and systems continue to address sustainability, from the growing popularity of systems that right-size corrugated cartons on demand to autobaggers that use kraft paper stock rather than poly. Companies are also looking to ensure high, sustained throughput and improve the unpacking experience.
With the rapid shifts in consumer buying patterns, pack stations are under pressure to deliver shipping boxes and bags that protect, are right-sized and cost effective. Fortunately, they’re up to the challenge.
Long used for end-of-line packaging of single SKUs, robots are now branching out into packing e-commerce orders, placing items into shipping cartons, or inducting items into autobaggers. While still early days, it’s being done and promises a way to take on volume and variability without adding labor.
Modern staff sat down with Sam Kurten, Engineering intern at Matrix, a ProMach product brand to talk about his career.
Lithium dominance among smaller electric equipment will accelerate larger-scale shift.
That would probably be a yes. Here’s the story of a new, double-sided linerless label printer that promises to do just that.
By implementing an autoboxing solution to create a right-sized package every 7 seconds, provider of parts for European cars
removes constraint, gains efficiencies.
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60 Seconds with Bob Trebilcock, outgoing executive editor, Modern Materials Handling
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We sat down with our own Bob Trebilcock to discuss the industry as he steps away from the editorial role.
Coles shops big for automation
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The Australian grocery chain’s highly automated DC in Queensland brings labor efficiencies and safety gains in replenishing ambient goods to hundreds of stores across a sprawling region, while enabling more frequent replenishment and product availability for consumers.
Kathleen Phelps to join FORTNA as chief financial officer
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Coles automates grocery distribution in Australia
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See inside the highly automated Coles grocery distribution center.
2024 Intralogistics Robotics Survey: Robot demand surges
April 11, 2024
Two years ago, 40% of companies had no plans to use robots. That number has been whittled down to 8% according to the annual Intralogistics Robotics Survey from Peerless Research Group, MHI and The Robotics Group.
TGW Logistics and OPEX Corporation form a strategic partnership
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With over 50 years of intralogistics experience, TGW Logistics will further optimize OPEX Corporation’s Infinity AS/RS technology.
