Topic: Logistics

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The Keys to a Future-Ready Automated Warehouse

October 1, 2018 · Dramatic changes to the warehouse are just beginning. Data-driven, flexible and robotic automation solutions help improve performance today while retaining the agility to adapt to tomorrow's changes.

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9 Attributes Redefining the Warehouse of the Future

October 1, 2018 · The continued growth of e-commerce, last mile delivery, and warehousing as a whole are driving significant demand for industrial properties and spurring innovation in how the assets are built and utilized.

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Material Handling & Logistics Conference: Day 2.

September 13, 2018 · Can we talk about robots? And, not just robots. Let’s add Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to the conversation, all of which have been on the menu at this year’s conference.

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Material Handling & Logistics Conference: Day 2.

September 11, 2018 · Can we talk about robots?

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Material Handling & Logistics Conference: Day 1.

September 10, 2018 · The future of work, robotics and artificial intelligence were on the first morning's agenda

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A scientific approach to warehouse automation

September 7, 2018 · Before making a large investment in automation, companies need to conduct a detailed data-driven, fact-based assessment across people, process and technology to identify the right fit.

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Warehouse Drones Ready for Digital Inventory Management

September 6, 2018 · Bolstered by the growth in industrial IoT, drones are proving their benefits for aerial inventory within warehouse facilities.

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FAA Completes Four Pilots in Its Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program

September 6, 2018 · The four pilots cover a wide range of applications for commercial drones, including healthcare materials delivery in North Carolina, consumer delivery in Virginia, providing bait to capture feral hogs in Oklahoma, and a beyond line of visual sight flights aimed at agricultural applications in Kansas.

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With more U.S.-based warehouse and DC workers needed, CBRE research provides some solutions

September 5, 2018 · As increasing e-commerce activity continues to be the “new normal when it comes to emerging supply chain strategies and planning, one thing that comes with that premise, which cannot be overlooked, is the need for more United States-based warehouse and distribution center workers to keep up with growing demand. That is the main takeaway in research published today by Los Angeles-based industrial real estate firm CBRE.

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MRO Academic Insights: Getting up to speed in Alabama

August 21, 2018 · In northern Alabama, the Alabama Robotics Technology Park is training nearly 1,000 automation operators and technicians each year for local manufacturers. It's one of the reasons Alabama is attracting so much manufacturing and distribution activity.

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As Amazon Ponders Airborne Fulfillment Centers Demand for Vertical Warehousing Grows

August 21, 2018 · With the first U.S. multistory warehouses preparing to open and amazon contemplating futuristic airborne fulfillment centers, demand is growing for the vertical construction of urban warehouses with smaller real estate footprints.

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Vision Picking Can Be Transformed Through Smart Engineers and Processes

August 20, 2018 · Augmented reality, smart glasses and other technologies are not enough in themselves to unlock value.

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Four Truths About DC Robots, Jobs, And Warehouse Execution

August 13, 2018 · Many articles about robots in the distribution center include predictions of large scale job losses. “Robots Replace People” is a good, attention-grabbing headline, but the truth is more complicated.

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While Uber Exits Self-Driving Trucks Kodiak Robotics Starts Up

August 8, 2018 · As the autonomous self-driving truck market heats up Otto/Google veteran Don Burnette and venture capitalist Paz Eshel and their start-up company Kodiak Robotics raise $40M to tackle the long-haul trucking business.

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Lift Truck Series: The brave new world of buying lift trucks

August 6, 2018 · The old days of buying a lift truck as a commodity unrelated to other materials handling equipment purchases are going away. Rapidly. It’s all because of fundamental shifts in how distribution centers operate—and new technology, of course.

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inVia Robotics raises $20 million Series B funding for warehouse automation robots

August 2, 2018 · The funds will be used to boost the commercial deployment of inVia's Picker robots and cloud-based Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) management system.

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Materials handling market to be worth more than $190 billion by 2024

August 2, 2018 · Material Handling Equipment Market size is set to exceed USD 190 billion by 2024; according to a new research report by Global Market Insights, Inc.

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How robotics can fit your operation

August 1, 2018 · There is a lot to like about robotics as a means of automating DCs. The tricky questions around robotics are not will they catch on, because they are, but what types of robotics will best suit an operation, and how will they interact with traditional automation and human labor?

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IoT, the talent shortage and robotics

July 27, 2018 · In its 4th annual survey of manufacturers and distributors, Sikich finds that companies are facing many challenges; answers are elusive.

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The $800M Autonomous Robo Vehicle That Could Beat Uber

July 20, 2018 · Zoox, a technology company founded to create the full realization of autonomous mobility, is on the verge of transforming the entire transportation industry by creating self-driving robots that will become the ride-shares of the future.

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