Topic: Equipment

The non-contact sensors have rugged sealed housing and alert operator of unsafe conditions.

The service eliminated upfront, flat monthly maintenance payments.

Techniques enabled the food pantry to distribute millions of pounds of food in 2020.

Company has effortlessly eliminated battery watering and change-outs.

Lift truck developed for needs of a precast concrete infrastructure products provider.

The tool enables the 3PL provider to self-configure WMS rules changes.

Contrary to the claims of many NMC-based lithium battery manufacturers, LFP chemistry is superior compared to NMC – it is safer, offers a longer lifespan, and is generally less expensive than NMC, NCA.

Bulk picking and putwall order consolidation were critical initiatives for the distributor.

The O-rings are renowned for their longevity and rugged durability.

The conveyance system has minimized employee exposure to cold temperatures.

The AMRs have enabled the manufacturer’s workers to focus on high-value production tasks.

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.

Go to the source—your operators—and get a handle on their power concerns, recharge patterns, and how these might impact productivity.

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.

Fully autonomous lift trucks are on the scene, and with higher-end price tags than conventional trucks, robotics-as-a-service may shape up as the leading model.

Demand for pallets is running high, as reflected by pallet use trends from our 2021 survey. However, there was a sharp rise in respondents having issues with availability and cost with used wood pallets, and a modest rise in readers using semi- or fully-automated pallet wrapping equipment.

In this podcast, Jim Page, Sales Manager, and Matt Kindt, Application Specialist at Huron Technology Corp., join Michael Levans, Group Editorial Director of Peerless Media's Supply Chain Group, to discuss how e-commerce growth has exaggerated the labor and square footage problems associated with using totes in distribution facilities.

While the technology has been available for a decade, auton­omous lift trucks have been slow to catch on. That may be changing.

Once thought of as reliant on fixed guidance infrastructure and aimed at moving larger loads across facilities, the automatic guided vehicle evolved. AGVs today can move loads large and small, and some can reliably lift multiple levels high. Some now even use natural feature navigation and collaborate more closely with people.

While the technology has been available for a decade, autonomous lift trucks have been slow to catch on. That may be changing.