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Hawker unveils new lithium battery and inductive charger
New wireless charger will charge Hawker’s lithium battery as well as its flooded and thin plate pure lead (TPPL) batteries.

Siemens offers simulation tools and ease-of-use hardware upgrades
Simulation and novice-ready fault codes help detect and eliminate problems that otherwise would require costly and time-consuming corrective measures.

Wildeck offers even more ways to use overhead space and keep it safe
Wildeck highlighted products to augment to performance and safety of pick modules.

Vecna showcases artificial intelligence-based Pivot.al for workflow orchestration
Vendor and OEM-agnostic, software integrates seamlessly with legacy automation, piece-picking robots, WMS, and MES systems.

Hyster pushes for forklift power studies
Much like telematics, comprehensive power studies could soon become essential element of forklift sales.

MHI Innovation Award winners announced
MHI Industry Night hands awards to innovators, young professionals and a few lucky others.

‘The Profit’ abandons the keynote stage in favor of much more intimate approach
'Serial entrepreneur' urges employers and employees to focus on helping one another become better people, not just better workers.

Tompkins International discusses its core competencies ecosystem
Portable, automated unit and parcel sortation system can be implemented within five to seven months.

Datalogic’s range of new products include hand held with autofocus
Company unveils innovations spanning a broad range of fixed mount and hand held products to make people and automated systems more effective.

Open Sky’s new managed support services assist JDA’s WMS and Labor clients
New service focused on getting clients back up and running quickly while ensuring any problems don’t recur.

Humatics announces partnership with Vecna Robotics
Partnership will enable mobile robots to navigate extremely active and unstructured environments -- indoors or out -- down to the centimeter without any delay.

Boston Dynamics acquires deep learning-based vision company
Technology works with leading commercial robotic arms to move boxes off pallets to conveyors or build stacks of boxes on pallets.

Westfalia enhances Firefly fault recovery visualization tool
Newest functions allow an operator to address faults and errors in real-time from any location.

MHI’s annual report sees inflection point, investment spike, for digital technologies
Panelists highlight an industry ready to move forward with the next stages of adopting digital technologies.

JLT Mobile Computers presents the StayLinked SmartTE
New offering creates more reliable operations while simplifying migration to new devices and operating systems.

Locus Robotics launches new hardware and software suite with omnichannel support
Innovation Award nominee now supports all aspects of fulfillment for retail, wholesale, and e-commerce channels.

From MHI: Looking ahead to Modex
Even though ProMat closes today, it continues online at promatshow.com as an on-going resource to exhibitors and attendees.

See you at Modex 2020; ProMat 2021 to debut new Robotics & Automation Solutions Center
With a record number of exhibitors and attendees seen at ProMat 2019, MHI anticipates more of the same at Modex 2020—the industry’s premier supply chain event.

Manhattan Associates highlights WES approach
Supply chain software provider Manhattan Associates (Booth S3979) is continuing to see interest from its user base in its warehouse execution system (WES) capabilities, said Adam Kline, a senior director for product management with the company, during a Tuesday booth visit.

Geek+ brings autonomous mobile robots to warehousing, order fulfillment applications worldwide
Geek+ (Booth N6327) is introducing a variety of autonomous mobile robots for warehousing and order fulfillment—including e-commerce applications—in its exhibit.


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