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…sector. Founded in 1977, the group has more than 1,600 stores across Spain and employs some 76,000 staff to serve 5 million Spanish households. For its new DC in Guadix, Granada, the company invested in robotic automation for the handling of its fresh produce, which has minimized handling times to maximize product freshness and shelf life. The new DC was…
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…visual line of sight” (BVLOS) operation, also a first in the U.S. for regular revenue-generating delivery. Read: UPS Partners with Matternet to Transport Medical Samples via Drone across Hospital System UPS has proven the need for drone delivery in healthcare operations, where the shortest time in transit can improve efficiency and help healthcare professionals serve their patients better. Earlier this…
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…their usage, and expedite yard operations. ZF’s electrically-driven Innovation Van, for example, combines an electric powertrain with advanced autonomous technologies, using a smart algorithm that factors in customer requests in real-time, while also calculating the most efficient delivery route. Gaining Steam In May, the U.S. Postal Service announced that it was testing self-driving trucks on a more than 1,000-mile mail…
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…River Systems offerings are in operations at more than 20 United States-, Canada-, and Europe-based facilities, where it fulfills millions of units per week for large shippers and logistics services partners, including Lockheed Martin, DHL, XPO Logistics, and Office Depot, among others. Shopify officials said 6 Rivers Systems is expected to generate $30 billion in annual billings in 2020. And…
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…the adoption of autonomous mobile robots (inVia Robotics, inviarobotics.com) as the fulfillment engine for its strategically located DCs. “Amazon has done a wonderful job of creating a need that didn’t exist before and convincing people they can’t wait for the product they just ordered,” says Mike Manzione, CEO of RSL, a provider of e-commerce order fulfillment and delivery services to…
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…But according to ARK Investing Group, Amazon could charge shoppers only $1 for drone delivery on packages under five pounds - welcomed savings on such otherwise high logistical costs. Consumers are willing to pay for faster deliveries, too. Last year, Amazon offered 1-day sooner shipping, and over two billion Prime members opted for this over the standard 2-day shipping option.…
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…constitute 40-60% of the warehouse operations cost, so changes in the employment cost index correlate tightly with warehouse rates and contractual price adjustments. Minimum wage increases are pushing up wages for all low skilled labor. California minimum wage will go up from $10 in 2017 to $15 in 2023 which translates to a nearly 7% annual increase. Proposed legislation in…
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As robots, automated equipment, artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies continue to make their way into the world’s warehouses and DCs, the number of companies using them is also proliferating. Driven by the need to manage high-velocity operations with limited labor resources while meeting the ever-changing needs of their customers, more companies are looking to automation to help them…
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…and vice chair, The Robotics Group (TRG), MHI. Knott is the logistics solutions business manager for ABB. Parrott is vice president of the Robotics Center of Excellence for Dematic. Location: Charlotte, NC Modern: Robotics is often news today in warehousing and distribution. Yet, robots have been in manufacturing for decades. What has changed and why now? Knott: Robotics are showing…
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…increase the visibility of gate operations, yard processes and dock-door activities. According to Gartner, YMS also includes a set of capabilities that deals with the management and process execution activities related to or affecting a company’s shipping yard and dock doors—factoring in equipment, facility and employee constraints as well as activity demand. Often implemented as part of the extended capabilities…
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…Diane Blair, director of field operations with Honeywell Intelligrated, a warehouse automation provider that also offers software including a CMMS solution. “Different vendors will typically have their own way of running their [maintenance] work orders, however, with our CMMS, we have many operations where we actually manage third-party vendors for our customers, and those vendors can be set up within…
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…providers for help. Peerless Research Group’s (PRG) annual survey, conducted in January of 2019, found that 32% of respondents were proceeding with investments given the state of the economy, down from a 42% response to the same question last year. That 32% level is more in line with the 35% for the “proceeding with investments” response in 2017 and above…
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…million hours of reliable, real-world operation.” “By leveraging this base in an additional application, we hope that the iBot will become even more accessible to those who need it for their own mobility,” Kamen said. The FedEx bot is designed to travel on sidewalks and along roadsides, safely delivering smaller shipments to customers’ homes and businesses. Bot features include pedestrian-safe…
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This month, the Supply Chain Group editorial team offers Logistics Management readers a preview of the latest warehouse and distribution center management equipment, automation and software products that will be introduced on this year’s trade show floor. Run two voice-directed picking solutions together The Lydia Voice Co-Exist Solution is targeted to Vocollect Voice customers who want to add Lydia Voice…
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…Global Supply Chain and Product Operations for Gap Inc. and Kevin Kuntz (right) is senior vice president of global logistics for Gap Inc. That’s a question Kevin Kuntz, senior vice president of global logistics fulfillment for Gap Inc., and his team confronted on the morning of Aug. 30, 2016. The night before, a fire tore through a 1-million-plus-square-foot distribution center…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
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Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
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