Working in Harmony
Robots and humans together make for a more productive warehouse. Even prior to the pandemic, warehouses struggled to find enough skilled labor to fill all their positions. Once the pandemic kicked in, that number exploded—in just two years, businesses added ...
Podcast: Sensors Revolutionizing Automated Material Movement: Efficiency and Safety Enhanced
Are you ready to dive into the future of material handling and logistics? In our latest podcast episode, we explore the fascinating world of fully automated material movement and the pivotal role of sensors in this revolution. Join us as ...
Powering Tomorrow’s Mobile Automation
Adoption of mobile automation vehicles (MAVs) in warehouses continues to expand, especially as technology continues to mature—it’s been deployed in warehouses for several years now. Mobile automation is constantly proving its value, picking up repetitive, low-value tasks – freeing human ...
The Unexpected (Soft) Benefits of Mobile Automation
There are myriad valid reasons why organizations consider mobile automation vehicles (MAV), like automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for their operations. Most of these benefits are obvious and easy to use as justification for the expenditure. ...
Navigating the Mobile Automation Landscape
Enterprises in every sector, including logistics, use digital technology to enhance their supply chain systems’ environmental and economic sustainability. This is called the next-gen supply chain market. The worldwide next-gen supply chain market generated roughly $32 billion in 2019 and ...
Getting Started with Mobile Automation
Mobile automation (MA) is exploding and it’s tempting to jump in and give it a try. But first, there are four chief hurdles to implementation that you need to address. Having the desire to add MA is one thing; not ...
The Unexpected (Soft) Benefits of Mobile Automation
There are a myriad of valid reasons why organizations consider mobile automation, like automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for their operations. Most of these benefits are fairly obvious and easy to use as justification for the ...
Podcast: MAG – How To Get Started with Mobile Automation
In this episode, MAG (Mobile Automation Group) Members Noe van Bergen, Director of Automated Solutions with Linde Material Handling a division of KION North America and Brian Markison, Senior Director of AGV Sales with Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas discuss the topic ...
AGVs and AMRs in One Facility
In the midst of a historic labor shortage, more and more companies are turning to mobile vehicles to assist in operations. These can take on two main forms, automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Each has its ...
How to Make Mobile Automation Affordable
In a world where the labor force is shrinking and automation is thus becoming increasingly important, operations that have never considered mobile automation are now taking a closer look. But even with faster return on investment than ever before, financing ...