Interfacing is easy. Integration is hard
Listen in as Softeon's chief technology officer Mark Fralick discusses the ins and outs of integrating automation. Executive editor Bob Trebilcock hosts.
Recording Date/Time
Thursday, July 6, 2023 4:47PM
Podcast Duraton
00:32:00 hrs/min/sec
Automated Materials Handling Solutions
There are more automated materials handling solutions available than ever before. The challenge: Integrating them so that the whole is greater than sum of the parts. As it turns out interfacing with all of those tools is easy but integrating them into a solution is hard.
On this episode of Talking Materials Handling, Mark Fralick, Softeon’s chief technology officer, walks us through the integration challenge and describes a new framework for solving the problem.
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