Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.00
…retaining employees long before the pandemic, particularly in the cold storage industry. In other areas of the world – namely the Asia-Pacific region – an adequate pool of workers exists, but labor costs are exorbitantly high, and so is real estate. In fact, Körber Supply Chain has a client in the Philippines, BigBlue Logistics Corp., which uses 250 goods-to-person and sortation AMRs in its three-level mezzanine warehouse to help offset high labor costs and fulfill orders quickly. How to redeploy your workforce and improve throughput Interestingly, most companies investing in mobile robots don’t necessarily use them to cut labor. AMRs…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.15
…infrastructure Most of the grocers that have adopted automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) are more established or worked with experienced systems integrators, the study said. “Takeoff Technologies' first MFC [micro-fulfillment center] went live in 2018/2019 and fueled an intense, yet-to-be-resolved, debate of where to fulfil e-grocery orders centrally or locally,” noted Thomas Andersson, principal analyst and co-founder of Styleintelligence. However, companies should understand that micro-fulfillment centers can require process changes. “MFC is more or less an additional store,” said Knapp in the study. “When we build an MFC, we give it a store identifier, and we replenish not only…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.92
…chain, the Changi air cargo hub offers an unbroken cold chain necessary for the effective handling of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical shipments. The taskforce has been set up to prepare the air cargo community to meet the logistical demands of vaccine distribution. This includes assessing and ramping the hub’s ability to handle different types of COVID-19 vaccines, all within stringent temperature-controlled environments, as well as to manage an expected surge in the volume of vaccines to be air transported to the region. In December, Singapore Airlines (SIA) delivered the first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to CAG on board one of its Boeing…