Topic: Automation

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Amazon’s Highly Automated Robotic Fulfillment Center - Delivering Customer Preference Experience

March 2, 2020 · Visiting Amazon's Robotic Fulfillment Center, North Haven, Connecticut; the materials handling systems and robots are impressive, but what makes Amazon Amazon is delivering customer experience, you don't get that by automation alone.

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RIA announces 2020 Board of Directors

February 19, 2020 · New and returning industry professionals pledge to guide and support the robotics industry in a time of rapid growth.

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Collaborative Multi-Bot Solutions Drive Efficiency and Productivity to New Heights

February 12, 2020 · Learn how collaborative autonomous mobile robots give fulfillment warehouse operators a powerful automation solution that increases worker productivity 2X – 3X, provide insightful business intelligence, and improve the overall workplace quality.

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OTTO Motors expands in Japan

February 11, 2020 · Partnership with Altech Co. Ltd. serves growing market and demand in Japan

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Real-time location technology sees the space between

February 6, 2020 · After decades of steady progress, the industry prepares for a flood of technology to capture and act upon real-time location of assets, people and goods.

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Universal Robots launches leasing program in collaboration with DLL

February 5, 2020 · Flexible, usage-based financing to benefit modern manufacturing businesses while enabling growth.

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UST Global announces partnership with GreyOrange

February 4, 2020 · Partnership will implement the GreyOrange Fulfillment Operating System for clients across retail and logistics industries

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Warehouse/DC: The Changing Metrics of Retail Success

February 4, 2020 · Total sales still matter. But few other measures do as retail morphs. While many want to characterize e-commerce as a great destroyer, it’s actually a great creator, bringing retailers and customers even closer together.

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New Cold’s Distribution Center: Automation wherever possible

January 23, 2020 · Automatic trailer unloading and automated storage come together to handle 3,500 pallets per day in and out of NewCold’s new distribution center.

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Shopping for an E-Grocery Fulfillment Technology

January 21, 2020 · The surge in demand for e-grocery services creates both tremendous opportunity and serious challenges for grocers.

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HighJump and Locus Robotics roll out strategic partnership

January 14, 2020 · The companies said they will collaborate to facilitate the development of integration tools allowing for faster, seamless implementations to improve productivity and efficiency for shared retail and 3PL customers, as well as establish HighJump as a licensed retailer of Locus’s autonomous, multi-robot solution for warehouse fulfillment, too.

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What’s in store for 2020

January 1, 2020 · Technology continues to be the driving force, but it's evolving.

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North American machine vision market falls 4.6% through third quarter

December 9, 2019 · Just over half of industry experts believe machine vision market will increase in the next six months, 38% believe sales will remain flat. Seven in 10 expect flat performance in the machine vision market, 24% believing sales will increase in the next six months.

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Other Voices: The need for an evolved supply chain in e-commerce

December 3, 2019 · Supply chains can improve customer experience by making it easy to send data up and down the chain, with real-time information delivered via APIs and automated updates.

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Autonomous Vehicles for Fulfillment and Delivery a ‘$250B revolution,’ Says IDTechEx

December 2, 2019 · Suppliers following a traditional model of equipment sales should consider "a subscription platform in their business model to offer maintenance and upgrades, especially cloud-based software updates."

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ABB and B&R launch first fully integrated machine-centric robotics solution

December 2, 2019 · Solution to improve flexibility at all levels, including machines, to support shorter product cycles and smaller lots of greater variety.

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Report: Global Next-Gen Supply Chain Market to More Than Double to $75B by 2030

December 2, 2019 · Future of logistics to be driven by artificial intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things, AR, drones, 5G and robotics.

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Rockwell Automation and ANSYS Set up Strategic Partnership

November 21, 2019 · Companies that target industrial automation and simulation help customers realize better business outcomes through simulation-based digital twins.

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Dyndrite Unveils GPU-Powered, Python-Scriptable, Additive Manufacturing Build Processor

November 20, 2019 · New application brings native CAD-to-print capabilities to additive manufacturing technicians.

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