Articles & News on Warehouse / Logistics

NiceLabel offers free subscriptions of cloud label software to organizations fighting COVID-19

  • April 7, 2020
  • News

NiceLabel has launched the non-commercial and non-profit-based initiative in order to help these organizations get much needed deliveries of medical equipment and supplies; respirators, disinfectants, masks or other critical supplies to those in need as quickly as possible.
 

Industrial Internet Consortium announces newest edition of Journal of Innovation

  • April 1, 2020
  • News

The latest issue delves into the topic of intelligent transport systems (ITS). In this edition, experts discuss important issues for ITS, including over-the-air updates, security and logistics.

Toyota Material Handling North America announces grant recipients of TMHNA University Research Program

  • March 18, 2020
  • News

TMHNA announced the recipients of grant funding during a joint press conference at MODEX 2020 held in conjunction with Material Handling Institute (MHI).

MSC partners with Plus One Robotics to support customer fulfillment centers

  • March 5, 2020
  • News

With Plus One Robotics, MSC has deployed a patent-pending 3D-vision and AI-enabled robotic packing system in its Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, customer fulfillment center and now plans to implement the system across its five major centers.

Graham Packaging announces Balaji Jayaseelan as director of sustainability and regulatory affairs

  • March 5, 2020
  • News

In his role, Jayaseelan will drive company-wide sustainability initiatives for plant operations, design, engineering, procurement, finance and marketing.

Robots on the Grindstone: Material Removal Robotics

  • by Bennett Brumson
  • July 5, 2010
  • News

In an era of historically high prices for metals and energy, manufacturers are feeling the pinch. To ease the effect of increasing costs of these products, industry is taking a close look at ways of keeping energy and material expenses in line. Investing in robotics for material removal can be part of a mix of strategies to keep costs down by more efficiently using materials, time and energy.

Dematic supplies sortation system to JCPenny

  • by Jim McMahon
  • July 12, 2007
  • Case Study

Ultra-precise merge gapping, parallel diverting sortation with linear induction motors, modular variable-speed functionality and single-point system control – JCPenney’s new Lathrop, California DC with its Integrated Sortation Sub-System (ISS) technology including a 980-foot long single-unit continuous sorter from Dematic, is processing up to 165,000 cases per day at 99.9 percent accuracy.

Vecna Robotics announces partnership with UniCarriers Americas

  • News

Through this partnership, UniCarriers will manufacture and promote their pallet jacks running Vecna Robotics’ Pivotal automation software.

Peak-Ryzex announces partnership with ShipTrack to enhance logistics management solutions

  • News

ShipTrack’s cloud-based solution can operate as a stand-alone system or integrated with customers’ back-end systems. Whether the system of record is an online ecommerce platform,  ERP, TMS or just a financial software to manage logistics data, ShipTrack can integrate to existing systems and provide customers and the extended value chain 360-degree visibility of order or delivery statuses.