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Zebra Technologies, a provider of enterprise data capture, mobile computing, and visibility solutions, announced earlier this month that it intends to acquire Fetch Robotics, a provider of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Fetch’s AMRs are used for optimized picking in fulfillment centers and distribution centers, just-in-time material delivery in manufacturing facilities and automating manual material movement in any facility. According to…
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Retail fulfillment sites require a level of flexibility to be profitable as they manage availability in product and volume demand as costs increase and labor becomes more difficult to find and retain. Instead of purchasing large fixed capital, retailers find relief in minimizing both infrastructure changes and other financial burden by choosing an intelligent robot solution. With the right intelligent…
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With public Cloud service spending expected to grow 18.4% in 2021 to $304.9 billion (up from $257.5 billion last year) and the Cloud projected to make up 14.2% of the total global enterprise IT spending market in 2024 (up from 9.1% in 2020), it just makes sense for warehouse management systems (WMS) to follow this trend and move full-bore into…
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Extremely high accuracy over inventory sitting in storage is a nice thing to have in a DC, but traditionally it has come at a cost: hours of labor spent hand-scanning bar coded license plates or “LPs” on pallets or cases and then reconciling any discrepancies. Of course, the cost of not expending labor on LP accuracy is downstream delays in…
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Parts Town Addison, Ill. Square Footage: 200,000 square feet plus 50,000 square feet of mezzanine space Products Handled: Critical and spare OEM MRO parts SKUS: 165,000 SKUs in stock, plus access to additional SKUs via partners Throughput: 22,000 lines and 11,000 orders on a typical day People/Shifts: Two 8-hour shifts per day/5 days per week plus one shift on Saturday…
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GreyOrange, a global provider of automated robotic fulfillment and inventory optimization software, today announced the appointment of Guido Frantzen as chief financial officer (CFO). Effective Oct. 1, Frantzen is responsible for leading the GreyOrange financial team, ensuring all departmental functions such as accounting, tax, investor relations and legal are elevated and support overall revenue growth goals for the rapidly expanding…
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Rex Brown is a fast-growing, e-commerce expert in sourcing, branding and distribution. The company currently processes 2.5 million orders per year for customers ranging from major household name brand Unilever to small and medium-sized enterprise brands. After deploying a fleet of modular sortation robots, the company will have the capacity to process more than 10 million orders each year. Rex…
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Join Honeywell Intelligrated at ProMatDX from April 12–16 for the premier digital experience for supply chain and manufacturing professionals. Our virtual showcase will take a holistic view of distribution center (DC) operations and demonstrate our end-to-end solutions for helping you address your biggest e-commerce and labor challenges — all while accelerating your progression toward greater warehouse automation. Our informative demo…
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While investment in automation is seen as vital for companies to remain competitive, supply chain leaders of American companies still envision a strong need for human capital in the workplace, according to a Honeywell study. Most companies that responded to the 2020 Honeywell Intelligrated Automation Investment Study indicate that automation in supply chains can lead to opportunities for new jobs…
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The relentless pressures of e-commerce fulfillment are creating unprecedented complexities in distribution center (DC) environments. Consumer expectations, labor shortfalls, rising order volumes and the proliferation of SKUs are forcing many businesses to question their current and future fulfillment strategies. If you’re seeking answers to the question “What’s next?,” we’re here to help. Preparing for the future will mean increased integration…
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Tompkins Robotics has created a new robotic application to automate the exit process on a unit sortation order fulfillment system, leveraging IAM Robotics’ latest robot model, Atlas. This system, called xChange, uses a robot to remove completed order containers from a sortation process and place empty order containers in position. According the Tompkins Robotics, the solution combines a fully-automated unit…
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Locus Robotics, a leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment and distribution warehouses, today announced more than $117 million in Series F funding, led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and G2 Venture Partners. As part of the financing, Mark Midle, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, and Zach Barasz, Partner, G2 Venture Partners, will join the Locus Board of Directors, bringing…
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Increased order volumes, customer requirements, and a shrinking labor force are putting significant pressure on fulfillment centers to ship more orders at an ever-increasing pace. Traditional, labor-intensive, cart-based picking are unable to keep pace. To meet these demands, many are adding collaborative, autonomous mobile robots to their fulfillment warehouses to increase productivity of their current workforce, speed up order fulfillment,…
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Quiet Logistics, Inc. today announced significant expansion with the opening of a world-class, 355,000 square foot fulfillment center on Jackson Road in Devens, Massachusetts. The new facility creates 150 full-time jobs, and is designed to handle Quiet’s current and projected growth, enabling the company to scale with customers that are facing significant increases in order volumes fueled by the booming…
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Robots for loading and unloading trucks are still emerging, and they are getting smarter. GreyOrange Inc. and Technica International this week announced a new partnership to combine Technica's iTLS technology with GreyOrange's GreyMatter fulfillment orchestration platform. The companies claimed that the combination of Technica's innovative truck loading and unloading system and the GreyMatter robot-agnostic platform will improve dock efficiency and…
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