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Clearpath Robotics (Booth 3771) unveiled the OTTO 100 autonomous self-driving vehicle in a press conference on Tuesday. Ideal for light-load material transport in congested factories and warehouses, the vehicle is a scaled-down version of the company’s OTTO 1500 for heavy-load, pallet-based material transport, said Matt Rendall, CEO. “As we worked with more customers, we saw an opportunity to support depalletized,…
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Kerry Logistics Network Limited, a leading logistics service provider in Asia, sought to improve picking operations for e-commerce where high volumes of small and irregular orders predominate. After introducing seven fully automated and programmed robotic butlers at its flagship facility in Hong Kong, the company has enhanced fulfillment efficiency and accuracy to meet the ever-growing consumer demands in online shopping.…
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Located outside Nashville in Fairview, Tenn., Scott Fetzer Electrical Group (SFEG) is a manufacturer of a range of electrical motors and components. As a high-mix, low-volume producer, the company was challenged to automate lines that are not always running. As an alternative to more costly, fixed industrial robots, the company deployed a fleet of collaborative mobile robots to automate monotonous…
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Rethink Robotics
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Market research and consulting firm IDC has released its annual list of manufacturing supply chain predictions, which highlight the growing urgency to innovate. The IDC FutureScape provides IDC Manufacturing Insights’ top 10 predictions for global supply chains for 2016. The document reflects ongoing conversations between IDC analysts and technology vendors, consultants, and IT buyers about what the coming years will…
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AutoGuide Mobile Robots
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A leader in custom manufacturing for outdoor power equipment, Standby Screw Machine Products is a third-generation company founded in 1939. To reduce the costs of repetitive tasks, the company deployed collaborative robots that are still flexible enough to quickly adapt to new parts and products. In Standby Screw’s Berea, Ohio, factory, a robotic cell produces more than one million parts…
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The Sartori Co. is a fourth-generation, family-owned and operated cheese manufacturing company located in Plymouth, Wis. When designing its new facility, the company selected an assortment of dock equipment to ensure compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). FSMA identifies docks as a high-risk zone for food defense and facility security. The design process for controlling the dock environment…
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Amid rapid advances and adoption of robotic technology in materials handling, it can be hard to keep up with all the tipping points. Grippers, vision systems, navigation solutions and software are combining to make once fantastical robotic applications all but inevitable. But, even as they offer solutions to age-old challenges, concepts like robotic piece picking are also bound to present…
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The Second Harvest Food Bank of Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties in Ohio is a not-for-profit clearinghouse that collects, stores and distributes dry and frozen surplus food. To improve working conditions for volunteers, the company installed a fabric curtain wall that reduced noise and temperature variations in the warehouse. Since 2001, the food bank’s volunteers have worked out of the…
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Inser Robotica
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KION North America
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SuperValu is the third-largest food retailer in the United States, operating 2,500 stores and serving as primary distributor to a 2,200 more. To separate grocery products from refrigerated and freezer areas, the company installed fully automatic high-speed doors that are approaching their five millionth cycle. Prior to installing the new door in 2001, the company’s 324,000-square-foot distribution center in Fargo,…
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When LDF Sales and Distributing, a wholesale distributor of Coors, Miller, Red Bull and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages based in Kansas, decided to more than double the size of its flagship Wichita warehouse, it installed a variety of dock and fan products to keep the warm weather away from cold storage. Founded in 1983 by Larry D. Fleming, LDF…
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Founded in 1991, New Belgium Brewing is the third-largest craft beer brewer in the nation and the eighth-largest brewery in the United States. The company currently sells beer in 33 states and produces more than 764,000 barrels of beer a year. After installing automatic vehicle restraints and hydraulic dock levelers, the company has created a safer, more efficient way to…
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