This year, ProMat features three keynote presentations, each offering critical insights from experts into future developments in robotics, business and the supply chain. The first runs Monday morning from 8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. in the ...
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Among the nearly 800 exhibitors at ProMat are five companies making their debut at the event. Although trade shows in general have drawn lower attendance and exhibitor numbers over the past few years of the recession, many of these new ...
Liberty Technologies,a Millwood company and a worldwide industry leader and innovator of unit load and packaging systems,materials and services,has signed an exclusive sales and marketing agreement with SafeFlo Technologies,LLC. Based in ...
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DAP Technologies is introducing its MT1010 rugged tablet, a lightweight tablet, in direct response to enterprise's top demands for a Windows® operating system that integrates into existing networks. The MT1010's rugged ...
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With an increased emphasis of the importance of materials handling to the supply chain—and the globalization of the world’s economy—don’t be surprised to hear conversations in languages other than English as you ...
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What is ‘The Hub’? The Hub is an interactive resource center that offers multiple social media and informational opportunities for ProMat visitors. Located in the center of the ProMat 2013 show floor, The Hub features a social ...
The Board of Governors of Material Handling Industry has voted to rebrand the Material Handling Industry of America and adopt a new name:"MHI—The Industry That Makes the Supply Chain Work." "The decision to become MHI was made to ...
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Meet Modern’s team of editors covering ProMat 2013. Bob Trebilcock Bob Trebilcock, Modern’s executive editor, has covered materials handling, technology and supply chain topics for Modern Materials Handling since 1984. A ...
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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 ...
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ProMat, the materials handling industry’s premier trade show and educational conference, will be held at McCormick Place South from January 21 to 24, 2013, and officials are getting ready to welcome nearly 30,000 visitors. Attendees ...
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ProMat 2013 is introducing a new award:the ProMat Innovation Award competition.Submissions are now being accepted.The ProMat innovation award serves to educate and provide valuable insights on the latest manufacturing and supply chain ...
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ProMat is presenting three separate educational tracks during the show. Each offers an expanded view into a specific topic related to material handling and supply chains. On Tuesday, the Association for Automatic Identification and ...
Your ProMat 2013 registration not only gives you access to the 300,000 square feet of exhibits, educational sessions and keynotes in McCormick Place South, it also grants you access to Automate 2013 located directly across the Grand ...
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The Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility(AIM)has announced its participation in MHIA's ProMat 2013 event to be held January 21-24,2013 at Chicago's McCormick Place. ProMat is one of the largest annual supply chain ...
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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 ...
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