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Wednesday’s keynote panelists agreed it is time to embrace the shift to digital supply chains seen in MHI’s latest annual industry report, titled “Next-Generation Supply Chains: Digital, On-Demand and Always-On.”

Mallard Manufacturing (Booth S445) just added a new product, Extend-a-Rail, to its engineering applications product line. Extend-a-Rail answers the need for flexible, time-saving pallet staging and off-loading.

Trelleborg in the Americas (Booth S945) is showcasing a sampling of its full range of tires for the materials handling market.

On Wednesday, during MHI Industry Night with Dana Carvey, the winners of the 5th-annual MHI Innovation Awards will be announced.

Starting on Monday, Cascade Corp. (Booth 3961) showcased three of its most recent innovations—the H-Series Paper Roll Clamp, the J-Series Carton Clamp and the RLK Multiple Load Handler.

Scandit, (Booth S3560) developer of software-based bar code scanning solutions for smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices, announced the release of Barcode Scanner SDK 5.2 for iOS, Android, Windows and other supported platforms.

The Beumer Group (Booth S1631) is showcasing its new BG Line Sorter at ProMat 2017.

This week, HighJump (Booth S959) announced the launch of its actionable analytics for HighJump Pulse, a supply chain analytics application.

Murata Machinery USA (Booth S630) has teamed up with Mazak to develop the new MAZATEC SMS (smart manufacturing system).

The latest upgrade of the WAMAS warehouse management software (WMS) suite was engineered to optimize waveless order fulfillment and labor management, said Lennard Koppelmann, VP of IT solutions for SSI Schaefer Systems International (Booth S3571), in a press conference on Tuesday.

Manhattan Associates (Booth S3983) announced the release of Performance at Work, a new solution for enhancing employee engagement.

Voxware (Booth S3667) has introduced its augmented reality (AR) offering, which brings voice and scanning together with vision and image capture to create a comprehensive personnel optimization solution.

At a Tuesday press conference, supply chain management software company TECSYS (Booth S3462) announced it is extending its radio frequency identification (RFID)-based Kanban inventory replenishment solution.

I would like to take a few moments to introduce you to the sponsor of this event—MHI.

VARGO’s (Booth S3937) COFE Continuous Order Fulfillment Enterprise warehouse execution system (WES) has been enhanced with two new modules that enable mobility and analytics, announced COO/CFO Bart Cera in a press conference Tuesday.