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In an ever-changing marketplace, retailers are always looking for the ‘next best thing’ to keep up with customer demands. As the leading North American AutoStore integrator, Bastian Solutions is excited to begin a new global chapter with AutoStore. With our ability to integrate entire systems to meet client needs, Bastian Solutions has seen repeated success with AutoStore installations in North…
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Optimize Workflow with Automation Accidents involving material-handling equipment are significantly reduced, sometimes eliminated entirely, when equipment and processes are automated. Whether you’re using autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), automated guided vehicles (AGVs), visually guided vehicles (VGVs), or a robot by any other name, you can reduce risk of workplace injury. In addition, you can greatly increase equipment life with the use…
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With automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) being used in most manufacturing and distribution facilities, many companies are looking for a more efficient way to accomplish precise fine positioning. In recent years, vision solutions have become the common solution to help complete these tasks, but many were not as precise as they could be. Now there’s a solution available to…
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Best Buy is a worldwide omnichannel electronics retailer enriching the lives of their customers though technology. To compete in today’s fast-paced ecommerce environment, Best Buy is revolutionizing its supply chain network, creating logistical efficiencies that seemed impossible in the past. Starting with re-designing each of its regional distribution centers, or RDCs, and then creating metro ecommerce centers, or MECs, to…
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The Great Recession taught an unforgettable lesson in the value spent on forklifts and their operation. Since then, the conversation around forklift power sources has taken several twists and turns. First, a sizable migration began from internal combustion to electric, then fuel cells and lithium-ion alternatives became more broadly viable, and now driverless forklifts are in the mix. Steven LaFevers,…
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Demand for e-grocery Automating e-grocery processes has suddenly become essential. Nielsen and the Food Marketing Institute project spending on e-grocery to triple by 2022 and many grocers have already reached the point where using pickers as surrogate shoppers, traveling up and down store aisles pulling orders from shelves, has become unsustainable. The economics don’t make sense and the increased congestion…
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As society becomes increasingly aware of the importance of health and wellbeing, workplaces are doing everything they can to ensure their employees are happy. But when it comes to seasonal peaks, it can be challenging to maintain a healthy work-life balance while meeting higher demand. Give your elves a break For many retail warehouse operators, a better work life balance…
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IAM Robotics makes autonomous mobile manipulation robots (AMMRs) capable of fully automated order picking and transportation in fulfillment centers and warehouses. Founded in 2012, the company is comprised of the best and brightest robot and automation experts, tinkerers, and problem solvers, who are laser-focused on delivering innovation and operational value that is transforming the material handling industry. IAM Robotics is…
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3D Printing and Logistics The prediction was right: once the printing speed becomes faster, more materials become available, and the associated costs decrease, 3D printing in manufacturing is going to explode. With each passing day, vast improvements in all three categories are occurring, and we’re getting closer to that explosion. Case in point: a report from January 2017 by PWC…
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FATHOM's Application & Engineering Team created this design guideline for 3D printing and additive manufacturing technologies—get answers for commonly asked questions specific to designing for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Multi Jet Fusion (MJF), Stereolithography (SLA), and PolyJet (PJ). The easy-to-use chart includes wall thickness, hole diameter, clearance for assemblies, escape holes, minimum detail, pin diameter, Z…
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As additive technologies, materials, and processes mature, so does the argument for using additive manufacturing (AM) to make production parts—let go of traditional manufacturing constraints and embrace a new mindset that explores additive manufacturing as a serious means of production. Additive Manufacturing vs. Injection Molding The additive technologies most commonly used for production of plastic parts include Fused Deposition Modeling…
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The team also received its seventh consecutive ranking on the Inc 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America—only 1.5% of businesses have made this list seven times. Michelle Mihevc, Co-Founder and Principal at FATHOM: “These exciting milestones for FATHOM further highlight our continued commitment to solutions that transform how products are designed, prototyped, and manufactured. Evolving at a fast…
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The use of robotics in warehousing, manufacturing and other sectors is increasing. Some countries, such as Japan, have long embraced robotics for a variety of uses. At the same time, there has also been a rise in “robophobia,” brought on by science fiction writers and filmmakers. Robophobia vs. fear of change Robophobia describes an irrational anxiety about robots and other…
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With the rise of AGVs in industrial automation, added flexibility to production flow is a growing need. But no longer do supply chain and logistics operations need to limit their processes to just indoors. SICK’s outdoorScan3 revolutionizes the world of AGVs, allowing you to take your automation processes outdoors to connect multiple production sites. As the first-ever outdoor certified safety…
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Focused on developing fast, efficient fulfillment operations that meet the needs of today’s e-commerce customer, more companies are investing in robotic solutions that help them meet those demands. By providing an automated alternative to traditional picking and packing systems, robots are also helping companies offset a scarcity of skilled labor and an unemployment rate that’s hovering at historically low rates.…
From geometry preparation to AI-assisted analysis, integrated CFD workflows…
Software-based GripperAI manages mixed picking through basic geometry
Safety, communication and motion control components enable smooth operation
North America’s largest robotics and automation event winds down
