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Bluff's management team and Wincove plan to build on Bluff's position in the material handling market and to continue to provide dealers with the same service, products, and delivery.

The partnership is intended to provides shipper, 3PLs and other logistics services providers with a transportation planning and execution solution that will optimize delivery outcomes while controlling freight costs across all delivery modes.

Leo, the fully autonomous baggage robot, has the capacity to check in, print bag tags and transport up to two suitcases with a maximum weight of 32kg. It also has an obstacle avoidance capability and can navigate in a high-traffic environment such as an airport.

CeMAT, a trade fair for intralogistics and supply chain management will be co-staged with HANNOVER MESSE, a fair for industrial technology, every two years starting in 2018

CeMAT 2016 gets underway on 31 May with a diverse showcase of intralogistics products and solutions featuring some 1,000 exhibitors from 44 nations.

With Westfalia’s automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) and Savanna.NET warehouse execution system (WES), the 223,000 square-foot distribution center is more efficiently storing, retrieving and managing pallets of finished goods.

The fleet of OTTO self-driving vehicles will be used to load and deliver parts to work cells for repair. Once restored, OTTO will dispatch materials to shipping for return to customers.

The AGVs will help automate production of riding lawn mowers at Airiens' plant in Brillion, Wisconsin

The lab in Brewerton, NY, provides customers the opportunity to train on robots, PLCs and motors in a controlled environment.

Woroniecki most recently served as Chief Operating Officer at MHI. He has over 25 years of material handling industry experience.

Tim Spang joins Seegrid as the Vice President of Operations and Sean Stetson as Director of Product Development.

By Oleg Logvinov, chair, IEEE P2413 The IoT is opening up new and innovative ways for manufacturers and suppliers to accurately track parts and materials in real time, reducing or eliminating delivery delays or mix-ups that can cost millions of dollars.

MagneMotion is a manufacturer of intelligent conveying systems.

Asiatic Agricultural Industries updated its old scales to EX equipment.

Each forklift is linked to ITAMCO’s ERP system through its GPS and an application on a smart tablet mounted in the forklift.

The lubricant oil-blending plant of Total Oil Asia Pacific in Singapore uses Egemin AGVs to transfer pallets from the four filling lines in the production area to the distribution zone.

FIPA vacuum system helps automate inspection systems at STVision.

By Bob Jones, Integrated Systems Design One of the principal challenges any organization encounters is how to know when it may be strategically beneficial to push the envelope on an internal logistics system automation project. First you need to ask yourself and your organization some tough questions. Here we will focus on the top five questions to ask.

At Schenker Deutschland, noax forklift terminals now guarantee seamless data transfer for fulfillment right up to the production line.

The belt conveyor will replace a railway system currently used to transport ore out of the mine to the processing plant.