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OPEX Corp. today said it will exhibit its warehouse automation at the ProMat manufacturing and supply chain trade show from March 20 to 23. The company said its experts will showcase the Infinity automated storage and retrieval system, or ASRS. “Today’s high-volume warehouses demand that goods move through the supply chain with accuracy at lightning speed,” said Alex Stevens, president…
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…Robotics Solution: ProMat Booth N6707 OPEX Corp. for OPEX® Infinity™ AS/RS System: ProMat Booth S2712 Packsize International Inc. for X5: Booth S3547 Best Innovation of an Existing Product: HAI Robotics U.S.A. Inc. for A42T Autonomous Case-picking Robot: ProMat Booth N7900 Vanderlande Industries Inc. for ADAPTO Shuttle: ProMat Booth S603 Ideal Warehouse Innovations Inc. for SLIDE-effect® Dock Bumper: ProMat Booth S3350…
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OPEX Corp. today said it is expanding the capabilities of its Sure Sort warehouse automation to incorporate radio frequency identification, or RFID. The Moorestown, N.J.-based company said RFID capability will help meet client needs and increase operational speed and efficiency. “The expansion to RFID is just another example of how we live our values and principles to listen and be…
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…approach and more of an opex [operational expenditure] play. Software is the true enabler here. With machine learning opportunities, every time an advanced robot interacts with its environment, it should be getting smarter. You need a feedback loop to get the most out of automation. RaaS and customer expectations Speaking of RaaS, what do you mean—leasing, renting, etc.? Dryer: RaaS…
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…could have more capex or opex [operating expenses], which gives us and customers some flexibility. Since Ottobot 2.0 launched in August, we've had 10 to 12 new customers, so there are more learnings to go on which is better for each. People love RaaS, but customers are also realizing they want the “stickiness” of a service model but want to…
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OPEX Corp. will have a presence at this year’s IMHX 2022, which will be held from Sept. 5 to 9 at NEC Birmingham in Marston, England. This will be the first time the Moorestown, N.J.-based company will exhibit its Sure Sort robotic sorting system at a U.K. show. This will also be OPEX’s first time exhibiting at IMHX at all,…
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OPEX Corp. said it plans to showcase its technology at the CeMAT Australia intralogistics and materials handling trade show later this month. OPEX automation experts will discuss the capabilities of Perfect Pick, its robotic goods-to-person picking system, and Sure Sort, its robotic sorting system. In addition, it will share information on the new Infinity automated storage and retrieval system 〈ASRS〉.…
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…can be “hired” for an OpEx-friendly subscription of $2,100 a month. Rapid Robotics said its RMO is affordable at just $25,000 a year, and the system requires no programming, systems integration, specialized hardware, or robotics skills. Manufacturers can see returns on investment (ROI) in months, claimed the company. Fast Company magazine recognized the Rapid Machine Operator as one of its…
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…basis are the AutoStore and OPEX SureSort. The traditional competitors to these goods-to-person technologies are pick modules, unit sorters and put-walls to name a few. LM: Robotics is certainly one of the hottest topics in automation. Considering all of the excitement, what are you actually seeing in your day-to-day work with clients? Saenz: The majority of warehouse operations in industry…
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…it was quite remarkable. The OPEX Infinity solution was impressive. No surprise—OPEX traditionally has a high standard for its technology. With Infinity, the company has done a great job of solving high-density racking while maintaining tremendous throughput. Berkshire Grey's Spectrum Gripper, a picking arm with a single suction end, is solving for enormous assortment and size of materials. This flexibility…
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…the new goods-to-person solution from OPEX, which decouples the robots from the high-density storage medium. Goods-to-person isn’t new for the industry, or OPEX, but the new product is a sustaining innovation on what OPEX was already doing. The industry continues to consolidate: The most notable merger/acquisition that I was aware of at the show was the acquisition of SDI Systems…
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…the new goods-to-person system from OPEX, which decouples robots from its high-density storage medium. Goods-to-person isn’t new for the industry or OPEX, but the new product is a sustaining innovation based on what the company has already done. Industry consolidation continues One notable deal around the show was the acquisition of SDI Systems by Element Logic, a Norwegian firm that…
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…the new goods-to-person solution from OPEX, which decouples the robots from the high-density storage medium. Goods-to-person isn’t new for the industry, or OPEX, but the new product is a sustaining innovation on what OPEX was already doing. The industry continues to consolidate: The most notable merger/acquisition that I was aware of at the show was the acquisition of SDI Systems…
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…systems integrators such as AutoStore, OPEX, Bastian, Swisslog, TGW, and Kuecker Pulse Integration (KPI). “We haven’t done any marketing and surprisingly we don’t have any dedicated sales reps, yet we’ve deployed a large number of robots,” said Kalouche. “I think this is a testament to the high demand for what we’re building and to our product and how well it…
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…the product management group at OPEX. He cited several factors beyond the increasing number of returns as e-commerce grows. Increased volume requires increased speed of processing returns, and automation is just faster than manual operations, said McVaugh. Furthermore, labor continues to be a problem. “The longer companies stay with manual processes, the more painful the move to automation will be,”…
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