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Shopify, a leading multi-channel commerce platform, has announced an agreement to acquire 6 River Systems, a leading provider of collaborative warehouse fulfillment solutions. In June, Shopify introduced the Shopify Fulfillment Network, a fulfillment network intended to offer timely deliveries, lower shipping costs, and improve customer experience for merchants and their customers. According to a release, this acquisition is a critical…
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Digital manufacturer Protolabs has added the Carbon platform to its portfolio of production-grade additive manufacturing technologies. With Carbon Digital Light Synthesis (DLS), the goal is to enable Protolabs’ customers to move into production faster and more cost-efficiently with 3D printing, the companies say. “We recognize that market demand for additive manufacturing has moved beyond prototyping and is being leveraged to…
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Automating Fulfillment Automation is the way of tomorrow, but how does it fit into your business' fulfillment strategy today? Before we answer this question, let's first refresh on what a fulfillment center is. In the not-so-distant past, fulfillment centers included a warehouse fueled by human workforces unloading containers, organizing inventories on shelves, packing orders received online and shipping them out…
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ANSYS and Autodesk, Inc. have announced a collaboration to help automotive companies combine visual design review and regulatory compliance validation in a connected workflow. The alliance will connect Autodesk’s automotive 3D visualization and virtual prototyping software with ANSYS’ physics-based lighting simulation solutions, enabling automakers to complement hyper-realistic visualizations of vehicle interiors and exteriors with lighting simulation. The ANSYS-Autodesk workflow uses…
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Additive Industries North America, Inc. announces the purchase of six MetalFAB1 systems by an aerospace company located in California. This firm order validates the Additive Industries’ concept of production-based metal powder bed fusion systems for overall equipment efficiency. When the order for six machines arrives at the customer site later this year, it will bring the installed base of MetalFAB1…
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Honeywell Intelligrated & The Apparel Logistics Group Honeywell Intelligrated has partnered with The Apparel Logistics Group – a leading provider of third-party logistics (3PL) and order fulfillment services for apparel, footwear, and accessories – to more than triple its daily e-commerce order output by installing new automated material handling solutions. Honeywell’s technology and support services will help to: Increase productivity…
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Ranked as the top manufacturing simulation software vendor, Siemens scored highest in implementation and topped four of the 10 scoring criteria, states global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research. Dassault Systèmes came in a close second, having scored the highest in innovation and topped three of the 10 criteria. The Manufacturing Simulation Software Competitive Assessment analyzed and ranked seven major…
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In today’s global marketplace of food logistics, it’s vital to recognize that refrigeration, food safety, and food waste are intimately linked. Perishable food, including fruits, vegetables, dairy products, meats and fish products, needs to be kept in a chilled or frozen state along the entire supply chain. When the safety risk is unknown or not reported, the food may be…
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Renishaw, a precision engineering and manufacturing technologies company, worked with Michigan-based Cobra Aeroto to improve the engine manufacturer’s design processes for aircraft and motorcycle engines. After completing the project with Renishaw, Cobra Aero invested in an AM 400 system to increase its in-house additive manufacturing (AM) capabilities. To optimize the design of its engine cylinders and to gain expertise in…
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With its Fiber Patch Placement system, SAMBA, Cevotec enables aerospace manufacturers to automate the multi-material layup of geometrically complex components in one integrated production system, monitored and guided by self-corrective process control. Cevotec offers production systems based on the Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) technology: SAMBA Multi features parallel feeding units for processing up to four different materials and placing them…
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CONTACT Software is a new member of Mitsubishi Electric's e-F@ctory Alliance. This partner network supports Mitsubishi Electric's Factory Automation division in providing its customers with solutions for smart connected manufacturing. Mitsubishi Electric is a supplier in the field of factory automation. Headquartered in Tokyo, the company supplies its customers with control and drive technology, robots and more, but also accompanies…
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Boosted by new, easier to use tools and more readily available compute resources, simulation technology is increasingly used more frequently and earlier in the design process, and by a wider array of professionals. On the CAASE The Conference on Advancing Analysis and Simulation (CAASE), presented by NAFEMS and Digital Engineering, is a great way to learn more about simulation. CAASE…
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In today’s e-commerce world, fulfillment has as much to do with the design of the network as it does with what happens inside the facilities located along that network. In the best of circumstances, the two work hand-in-hand. What’s more, in a fast-changing industry, what you’re doing today is not nearly as important as positioning your company for where you…
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Manufacturing is changing. Never mind the remarkable utility of 3D scanning, the customization capability of additive manufacturing, or the facile methods of rapid prototyping—there’s a whole new way of using cloud computing to disseminate design information instantly. Potentially, it provides a new chapter in the way we manufacture everything. Welcome to contract manufacturing—also known as manufacturing as a service (MaaS).…
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RSL is in the process of building out a different kind of network, with a different style of fulfillment center. Receiving: RSL receives an advanced ship notification (ASN) for all incoming product. When it’s received (1) at the facility, it is counted twice and then scanned into RSL’s proprietary warehouse management system 〈WMS〉. Product is placed into the storage bins…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse components that will be on the…
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse robots and software that will be on…
