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Warehouse Drones: Real-Time Inventory Tracking by Air

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Warehouse Drones for Inventory Identification Accurate and reliable data is essential to efficient and effective business operations. Inventory management represents a significant portion of assets in a business. Therefore, managers and other decision-makers need to accurately and timely know how much inventory there is and where it is located in order to make effective budgeting, operating, and financial decisions. Companies…


UPS Flight Forward Achieves FAA’s First Full Approval for Drone Airline Deliveries

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…game. Download Now! Global Autonomous Inventory Robotics New Product Innovation Award This best practices research paper details the PINC Air inventory robotics solution with its quick deployment model, faster inventory velocity, product ingenuity, and rapid ROI underscoring the decision for PINC to win Frost & Sullivan’s 2017 New Product Innovation Award. Download Now! The Four Forces Driving Supply Chain Innovation…


Transportation Technologies: First Autonomous Yard Spotters, Then Autonomous Over-the-Road Trucks

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…the Right Technology For Your Inventory Management Related Resources Using Autonomous Robots to Drive Supply Chain Innovation This paper details how new technologies are presenting promising opportunities for improvement across the supply chain and how autonomous robots and drones are poised to change the game. Download Now! Global Autonomous Inventory Robotics New Product Innovation Award This best practices research paper…


Shopify set to acquire 6 River Systems for $450 million

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…through various tasks such as inventory replenishment, picking, sorting, and packing. Shopify also explained that that this acquisition is a “critical step to accelerate its growth,” with 6 River Systems continuing to build and sell their offerings for warehouses. The Shopify Fulfillment Network was introduced by Shopify in June. Its primary objective is to provide United States-base merchants with a…


Shopify to acquire 6 River Systems

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…associates with daily tasks, including inventory replenishment, picking, sorting and packing. “Shopify is taking on fulfillment the same way we’ve approached other commerce challenges, by bringing together the best technology to help everyone compete,” said Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify. “With 6 River Systems, we will bring technology and operational efficiencies to companies of all sizes around the world.” “By…


Top Reasons to Automate Your Fulfillment Operations

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…human workforces unloading containers, organizing inventories on shelves, packing orders received online and shipping them out for delivery. Many eCommerce merchants who don't have the physical space to store and ship products depend on this service as a lifeline for their growing businesses. Top Benefits of an Automated Distribution Center After several years of improvements in shipping and logistics technology,…


Siemens and Dassault Systèmes Nab Top Spots in ABI Research’s Simulation Software Assessment

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…throughput, machine downtime, capacity, and inventory levels. Arena, owned by Rockwell Automation, topped the Followers category due to strong performance in data modelling and analytics. Arena’s complex variability modeling capabilities and its strong installed base within the market contributed to a strong score in implementation. “Ultimately the companies that scored best in the ranking can go beyond high-level factory layout…


GreyOrange partners with eight supply chain industry leaders in the United States

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…The company’s always-solving application platform, GreyMatter, orchestrates robots, people, promises and inventory to continuously adapt and accelerate accurate fulfillment in distribution centers and warehouses. GreyOrange experts work closely with organizations to master complex supply chain challenges so they can advance commerce and help employees thrive. The company has core operations in the United States, Singapore, Germany, Japan and India.


Other Voices: Five ways to use robotics in the warehouse

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…automation in the warehouse setting. Inventory management To err is human. But small errors can cause big problems when it happens in a warehouse. One job area where people are susceptible to simple mistakes is doing repetitive tasks and manual entry. If consistent errors are resulting in lost time from barcode scanning or human-made data entry, consider automating these processes…


Continental/Midland increases productivity with enhanced operator accessibility

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There are two basic approaches to picking and put-away with lift trucks—man-down and man-up. With the former, the operator remains at floor level as the truck moves the load, perhaps as much as 25 feet or higher in racks. With man-up, the operator travels along with the load to the rack position for a bird’s eye view of what’s going…


3YOURMIND Awarded Funding to Enhance Machine Learning in its Software

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…AM suitable parts from existing inventories. For companies and 3D printing services who are already actively 3D printing, the software suite becomes their digital access point for accurate pricing, file management, automated order processing and transparent tracking of the production floor. In 2019, in addition to building out machine connectivity, 3YOURMIND will focus on interlinking their software suite with machine…


2019 NextGen Supply Chain Awards winner recap

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…right-sizing maintenance parts and optimizing inventory to actual conditions at a location.” Among the other benefits being realized by condition-based maintenance is a 65% reduction in the mean time to repair, a significant improvement given that the company manages 5,000 connected chillers in 37 countries. It is also contributing to revenue, with a service contract renewal rate of more than…


Mobile Robotics Descend on Warehouse Operations

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…movements to reduce travel, and also will adjust slotting or other inventory location decisions to maximize pick density. “With robotics, what happens is that the software can slot the warehouse dynamically, without anybody having to do anything,” says Barber. “It’s really the software that understands the little nuances to order fulfillment that are going to drive productivity and maximize storage…


AutoStore acquired by Thomas H. Lee Partners

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…achieve nearly four times the inventory storage relative to manual alternatives, with enhanced inventory picking speed and accuracy. With over 11,000 robots in operation across 28 countries, AutoStore is the most deployed provider of gridbased, high density goods-to-person systems, participating in the global automated storage and retrieval systems (“ASRS”) market. Global megatrends, including the increasing focus on automation and robotization,…


Solving the Palletizing Puzzle

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…be ready to manage the inventory of those dynamic slots and provide visibility to the order-processing layer to quickly optimize those slots. The next tier of sophistication is a multi-level pick-to-belt module, and the same AS/RS can handle multiple tiers. This still doesn’t support a sequenced pallet at the case level, Khodl says, but it might support grouping by family.…


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