How to Implement Automation in Brownfield Facilities Without Disrupting Operations
Planning and testing will help keep operations running smoothly. Why Brownfield Automation Is So Complex You’re in a brownfield operation, and you’re about to embark on the implementation of new automation. While the payoff will be worthwhile, getting to that ...
Lessons Learned from Implementing Mobile Automation
While mobile automation technologies like Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) offer substantial benefits in efficiency, productivity, and safety, they also come with challenges that can impact success if overlooked. Recognizing and preparing for these potential obstacles ...
Second Acts: How Used Lithium-ion Batteries Can Continue Performing in ...
The end of a lithium-ion battery’s forklift usefulness isn’t the end of the show. In the circular economy, a battery’s lifecycle can have several acts. Act I – Introduction As discussed previously, the transition from lead-acid to lithium-ion battery (LIB) ...
Maximizing ROI and Mitigating Risks with Robotics
You must make the business case before making the investment. Robots are everywhere in the warehousing industry these days. A look around the showroom of a trade show will feature everything from traditional fixed arms to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), ...
The Evolution of AGVs and AMRs
While not new, mobile robotics are evolving rapidly. Warehousing has always been a largely manual operation, but increasingly, that landscape is changing. With rising labor costs and shortages and improved technologies, automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) ...
Demystifying Robots
The machines are well suited to a variety of environments, but it’s key to understand how. There’s a good deal of buzz around robots in the warehouse, and for good reason. They can help with the labor shortage, increase efficiencies, ...
Monitoring Sensors on the SLAM Line for Trouble
Sensors can help you prevent issues before they lead to downtime—essential when peak season is on the way. We don’t have to tell you how critical peak season is to your operations. Whether you’re just coming off the holiday peak ...
MHI Solutions Community Annual Meeting Panel
Sleeping better: How warehousing and distribution practitioners tackle today’s challenges When talking about the challenges of warehousing, there is a fine line between input and output, efficiency and practicality, pleasing stakeholders and pleasing customers, and everything in between. Tying all ...
Preventing Data Lag
Keep your SLAM line running smoothly. Automating the final 100 feet of your warehouse—the scan, label, apply and manifest (SLAM) tasks—is one of the best improvements you can make to ensure efficient shipping. Despite all the gains you can make ...
Recalculating: Including Productivity Gains in Total Cost of Ownership
As businesses transition from traditional power sources like fossil fuels and lead-acid batteries to new energy technologies like hydrogen fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries, it’s easy to get caught up in the dollar signs. It’s a big check. But when ...