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KION North America
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Robert Half Technology
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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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Delft University of Technology
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Rite-Hite Holding Corporation announced that its line of loading dock seal and shelter products previously branded as Frommelt products, will now be branded under the Rite-Hite name. Frommelt Products Corporation – which has been a part of the Rite-Hite family since 1991 – will now be known as Rite-Hite Environmental Enclosures Corporation, and will continue to deliver the highest level…
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Stratasys
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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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Made In Space
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Think Logistics
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Frommelt Safety Products (a division of Rite-Hite Doors) will change its name to Rite-Hite Machine Guarding, effective September 1, 2014. The name change is part of an overall initiative to further strengthen and focus on the Rite-Hite brand. The announcement follows the streamlining of the product line that the machine guarding division undertook earlier this year. In similar fashion, Frommelt…
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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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The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) will host the International Collaborative Robots Workshop on September 30, 2014 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. The workshop will explore advancements in the field with a global view on collaborative robot technology, applications, safety implications and human impacts. “We’re bringing together international robotics industry leaders, researchers, suppliers and users to…
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It’s no secret that some of the world’s most impressive organizations have historically relied on manual systems for dock operations. Industry leaders at process efficiency inside their buildings are still manually spotting trailers and managing door traffic or using homemade software to orchestrate tasks. A larger concern is that entire operations are often supported by equipment that does not enjoy…
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Universal Robots, the Danish manufacturer of industrial robots, has celebrated the opening of its new company headquarters in Odense, Denmark. Moving into new facilities will extend production capacity as the company aims for turnover of one billion Danish kroner by 2017 ($185 million), a tenfold increase compared to the company’s 2013 revenue. Ever since the first UR robot hit the…
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When visualizing industrial robots, the classic six-axis arm comes readily to mind. In manufacturing applications, these robots have spent decades living up to the definition of the word robot as “a device that automatically performs complicated or repetitive tasks.” While there is no shortage of complication and repetition in warehousing and distribution, robotic automation has had to develop a whole…
GENISOM AI makes ICRA debut at conference in Vienna
World's first omni-modal evaluation including tactile sensing for…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
North America’s largest automation and robotics event takes place June 22-25
