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Less than a month away, Pack Expo East (April 16-18, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia) already expects more than 6,000 attendees will convene at the biennial three-day event produced by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. Pack Expo East is set to showcase the latest packaging innovations driving the food and beverage, pharmaceutical and medical device, cosmetics and personal…
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“There’s something happening here, What it is ain’t exactly clear”….Stephen Stills Over the years, I’ve watched the adoption of any number of new technologies, from WMS to voice recognition systems to shuttle systems. In all three examples, technologies that we take for granted today were, in reality, fairly slow to become part of what Jim Rice at MIT calls “the…
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Title: Professor, University of California at Berkeley Location: Berkeley, Calif. Primary Focus: For the past several years, artificial intelligence as a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Until a few months ago, Abbeel was a researcher at Elon Musk’s OpenAI lab. More recently, he co-founded Embodied Intelligence with three researchers from OpenAI and Berkeley. The company teaches robots…
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At an Assa Abloy plant in Bucharest, Romania, the skills gap is widening every year. In response, the factory’s management invested in robotics to automate simple tasks and move workers to value-added positions. This generated in-house robotics expertise that set an example for the whole Assa Abloy group. About 500 people work at the plant, assembling locks that are sent…
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Global freight transportation and logistics services provider XPO Logistics has rolled out a new cloud-based mobile software platform. Entitled WMx, XPO said this offering, which is geared towards mobile devices, paves the way for the “rapid development and integration of automation and robotics” that is much lower than typical start-up times. XPO said that WMx serves as a single solution…
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Pearson Packaging Systems, a provider of discrete equipment and complete end-of-line systems for the secondary packaging automation market, has acquired robotic automation specialist Flexicell, Inc. According to a release, the combined organization will be counted among the three largest FANUC integrators in the packaging industry. With more than 25 years of applying robotics to solve packaging and warehouse automation challenges,…
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Tasked with supporting the fulfillment across a growing number of distribution channels, warehouses and distribution centers (DCs) are increasingly looked upon as strategic business assets versus cost centers. Where in the past a warehouse or DC was simply a storage facility for goods or a place to put “stuff” as it made its way through the supply chain, the modern-day…
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If there were one clear-cut conclusion to be drawn from our “2018 Warehouse and Distribution Center (DC) Equipment Survey,” it would be that the outlook for spending is bullish. The percentage of respondents saying that they’re “proceeding with investments” reached its highest level in four years, and the percent of respondents saying that they’re “holding off” on material handling solutions…
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The North American robotics, machine vision and motion control markets continue to set new records, according to the Association for Advancing Automation’s (A3) annual report on market statistics. “What I find most telling about these results is not simply that the automation market continues to grow, but that it is growing in such a wide variety of industries,” said Jeff…
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During the week of April 9, the Georgia World Congress Center will open its doors and welcome Modex 2018, an expo for the manufacturing, distribution and supply chain industries, sponsored by MHI. 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…
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As reported by The Verge, Amazon will finally launch its shipping service for businesses in Los Angeles in the “coming weeks,” according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The service, dubbed Shipping with Amazon or SWA, will directly compete with companies like United Parcel Service Inc. and Fed Ex Corp. However, it will be initially restricted to…
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EHANG, a global leader in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, has unveiled footage of the latest test flights of their self-flying passenger aircraft or Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (AAV). The EHANG 184 series is the world's first passenger drone capable of carrying a single person at up to 130 km/h and in force 7 typhoon conditions. These manned test flights are…
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