Topic: Equipment

Digitization, connectivity, efficiency and customer demands continue to drive innovation.

From conventional to automated, from vegetables to natural disaster relief, this year's cover stories explore how improving operations enhances customer service and profitability.

Study suggests impending innovations like 5G wearables, quantum computing and self-driving trucks likely won't be ready in time for next Christmas.

Connections enable massive wireless sensor networks for solutions including virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) for predictive maintenance and product monitoring.

Scholarships for two-year students to promote the value of technical schools in closing the manufacturing skills gap.

All 75 companies exhibiting at MODEX 2020.

Report indicates "opportunities abound" for both the manufacturing sector and technology vendors.

Weighing more than 120 kilograms, scale model includes pallet flow storage systems, carton flow applications, belt conveyors, belt curves and sorter with destinations.

Adoption of smart pallets, block pallets, and plastic pallets will progress at a notable rate owing to their several benefits over conventional pallets, as suggested by a new study report.

Equipment and software investment likely to post weakest year of growth since 2016 following the first annualized contraction in more than three years in Q3.

October 2019 billed sales down 18.6% compared to October 2018 sales.

Here’s what shippers are asking for and how suppliers are delivering on those requests to make totes, bins and containers that can meet the rigors of today’s warehousing and DC environments.

Forklift manufacturers are drawing inspiration from the tech sector’s rapid pace of innovation to create equipment with ever-evolving capabilities.

Hybrid of light-directed technology and voice solution boosts productivity in picking, receiving and at the dock.

New carts designed for rapid reconfiguration support, flexible operations.

3PL installs new double-decker crossbelt sorter designed to handle e-tail’s unpredictable demands and high return rates.

Switch eliminates lead-acid batteries, daily maintenance and battery room.

Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace, and a focus on safety is the best way to keep up.

Warehouse-specific connectivity issues must be dealt with at a holistic level, assessing the operation in terms of physical layout as well as by kind, size and location of goods, anticipated movement of goods, mobile devices, integration of historical trending data, and other related variables.

Supply chains can improve customer experience by making it easy to send data up and down the chain, with real-time information delivered via APIs and automated updates.