Integrated System & Quality Assurance Drive Perfect Deliveries Lear Corporation's 94,000 sq ft, four assembly line seating plant in Montgomery, AL is one of the most modern and efficient facilities of its kind. At peak production, Lear ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components
In many respects, automated materials handling systems are like mutual funds: They’re front-end loaded. We put a lot of emphasis on conveyors, sorters, pick-to-light, voice technology and automated storage solutions. Packing stations, ...
Tags: automated materials handling systems, Processing Machinery
One of the world's most experienced logistics and supply chain professionals – Mike Kotecki, senior vice-president, Dematic, North America – will share his unique perspectives on 'smartly' imparting change to your supply chain ...
Muratec (Booth 3208) introduced new automated storage and AGV products at ProMat. The FX Quad is a high-speed mini-load automated storage and retrieval (AS/RS) crane capable of handling one, two and four cases at a time. Designed to ...
Tags: Muratec, automated storage, AGV products, ProMat
Dematic (Booth 1203) introduced the next generation of its Multishuttle, a high-speed automated storage, retrieval and picking solution for cases, totes and trays. The system is part of Dematic’s overall solution set designed to ...
It’s a New Year’s tradition for anyone who writes for a living: use the first column of the year to look back at what just happened and try to make sense of what’s to come. Truth be told, it was probably a way for writers ...
Tags: Automation, New Year, car industry, promoption
Law firm Sackers and Partners is using automated storage tiering to reduce costs and time taken to manage systems storing an ever increasing amount of data. Using a Dell Compellent system, Sackers is automatically storing data on low cost ...
Tags: Law firm, automated storage, security, Dell Compellent
X-IO is set to launch a new product in its Hyper ISE 7-series hybrid flash/HDD array line, the 740, which will double existing SSD capacity from 1.6TB to 3.2TB. The new product, revealed to Computer Weekly at SNW Europe, aims to fulfil ...
Tags: X IO, Computer Products, SSD capacity, Hyper ISE arrays
Think you know everything there is to know about how materials handling makes the supply chain work? Not so, according to the folks conducting the 90-plus free educational sessions located in the ProMat 2013 Knowledge Center. The sessions ...
Tags: On Floor Seminars, material handling, logistics solutions
The economic realities of the past few years have forced most companies to make cuts,frequently in personnel headcount,to accommodate the downturn in business as they fought hard to survive.Indeed,many facilitiesa-including ...
Linpac Allibert is set to launch a range of handling and logistics containers that have been designed to address the complex needs of automated handling equipment. The containers are combined with consistent sizing, which makes them ...
Tags: automated handling equipment, handling and logistics containers
IT consortium Charityshare has deployed a Violin Memory 3000 Series all-flash array to support the roll-out of up to 2,000 virtual desktops for its Age UK operations. Violin was chosen on grounds of cost and the company's backing from HP ...
Tags: Charityshare, Violin Memory, TMS, Gartner
BIG W’s state-of-the-art distribution centre at Hoxton Park, Sydney BIG W’s new 89,000sqm distribution centre at Hoxton Park in Sydney was the big winner at the recent Australian Supply Chain & Logistics Awards. The retail ...
I may have been an English major with limited mechanical ability, but I love watching machines at work. It’s one of the reasons I get a kick out of shows like ProMat. It’s also a reason I like writing about automation. When ...
Tags: automation, inventory, efficiency
Dutch cloud provider McCloud has chosen Amplidata object storage to support its remote backup services,over clustered NAS products from HP and NetApp. McCloud–which spoke to Computer Weekly at SNW Europe in Frankfurt this ...
Tags: Cloud backup, Amplidata object, remote backup services, NAS