Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 20, 2022

When and how does real-time warehouse data deliver productivity? In general, real-time location data on mobile assets in a warehouse is most valuable when the assets are valuable and highly mobile. Real-time data is most important when time value is high. Real-time data is most important when time value is high.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 16, 2024

Forklift telematics systems deliver the vital statistics data that every warehouse or distribution centre manager needs to get the most from their materials handling equipment budget. For example, how busy are they during their working day? Are more drivers needed to run the operation smoothly or is the opposite the case?

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Conger

JANUARY 27, 2023

Examples of automation range from a household thermostat to a large industrial control system, self-driven vehicles, and warehousing robots. Examples are industrial robots and multipurpose CNC machines. Process Automation Process automation means using technology to automate manual processes through data and systems integration.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 28, 2024

The company has released a digital cognitive platform, ‘Luminate’, a generative AI capability, ‘Orchestrator’, and a new data cloud service with its partner Snowflake. Data is gold. It factors in all relevant data and context within the supply chain application to optimize and augment user prompts. It should be quick to install.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2021

As an entrepreneur I’ve been reflecting on this a lot: The current milestone in logistics and fulfillment is using emerging technologies to capture and leverage exponentially growing data sets in warehouses and throughout the entire fulfillment network. Data sets have grown quickly in the cloud paradigm – and they exploded in 2020.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2021

One example of this is an application study in the Port of Antwerp, which includes one of Covestro’s largest European production sites. Another common image involves autonomous material handling and, perhaps, even a factory that is entirely operated remotely. Covestro is participating in tests of 5G.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 4, 2022

According to the recent SYSPRO global research survey, an enormous 82 percent of Fabricated Metal Manufacturers experienced supply chain and material handling disruptions over the past twelve months. The great advantage of the cloud is that storing this information is far easier and cheaper than on-premise data storage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2024

A WMS needs a warehouse control system to control the material handling equipment. For example, the AMR zone may need additional inventory as work proceeds. For example, the WES may want the inventory picked from location X rather than location Y. With gray box AMRs, the WMS can send order lines. That was not fully true.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 3, 2022

There are many other similar growth examples in warehouse automation. Daifuku doesn’t explicitly break out warehouse automation, but it does report on its intralogistics business (including manufacturing material handling). The Kardex Mlog division offers integrated materials handling systems and automated high bay warehouses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2024

It’s also a great example of how the boundaries between what we traditional think of as “IT” and “OT” cybersecurity are blurring.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For example, an ERP for automotive distributors needs to include not just a standard sales function but also allow for automotive-specific processes like call-offs and contract pricing, as well as other processes like returns and lot traceability. An ERP provides a central repository for all a distributor’s data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 19, 2021

By doing this, you can run a day or a week in the life of your operation and get back data on its performance capability. Material handling. Examples of use. Then you can run different scenarios over a similar seven-day period, against the data you have collected, to create an accurate “compare and contrast” picture.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Let’s add Big Data , Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to the conversation, all of which have been on the menu at this year’s conference. . It’s easy to think of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotics as four distinct things. The post Material Handling & Logistics Conference: Day 2.

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Turvo

AUGUST 24, 2021

Real-time data is critical to the supply chain’s smooth operations day in and day out. Examples would be some traditional forms of material handling equipment. Faster communication with automated messaging and data sharing. Data collection and analysis can be accurately applied to the network.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

To assist designers, I will outline seven key principles applicable to a warehouse or DC design, compiled from a review of literature, discussions with industry specialists and materials handling companies, plus my own design experience gained over many years and projects. For example: Why will it exist? Is it part of a network?

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A key element of Siemens’ service approach is predictive maintenance: collected data helps detect changes in the condition of systems and their components at an early stage. To store and analyze the data obtained, Siemens offers the open, cloud-based IoT operating system MindSphere. Installation is also possible on third-party sorters.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2021

7) Selecting the Materials Handling System. If you have a low number of SKUs and a low volume, you’re going to have a very simple materials handling system. Sometimes the volume stays the same but the SKUs increase, as highlighted by the following example. 8) Know Your Data. What are your rivals doing?

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Conger

APRIL 1, 2024

Examples include cleaning and lubricating the moving parts or replacing parts before they wear out. This strategy contrasts with predictive maintenance, which relies on real-time data to predict when a machine might fail. Lubrication: Ensuring all moving parts are lubricated reduces friction and wear.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

All this data can be accumulated and combined into a barcode and marked on the part. Barcode readers then decode the data throughout the part’s lifecycle and reliably transfer the information into an ERP software system ensuring full traceability for each part of a finished vehicle. A robust traceability system.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

Crown, one of the world’s largest material handling companies, has refined the design of its GPC and MPC Series order pickers and TC Series tow tractor as part of the company’s continuous product improvement efforts. This includes, for example, the ergonomic full-suspension operator platform.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 22, 2022

The shift from oversupply to the current worldwide shortage has impacted raw materials, inbound logistics, the factory floor, and the outbound warehouse. SYSPRO research revealed that 82% of fabricated metal businesses have experienced supply chain and material handling disruptions, further eating into diminishing margins.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Toyota Material Handling UK has helped the award-winning premium snack producer, Burts Snacks, to reduce intralogistics costs and achieve significant handling efficiency gains across its business. For example, if a lead acid battery is opportunity charged, this can cause significant implications to the battery.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

With the switch to lithium batteries, the efficiency and safety of materials-handling equipment and other off-highway and industrial electric vehicles are improving. Forklift battery CAN integration guarantees that the battery and the host truck or charger are working as one system and exchange all necessary data.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Since their introduction in 2021, the latest electric counterbalance trucks from Linde Material Handling (MH) have been setting new standards with regard to ergonomics, visibility, safety and energy efficiency. Now, the Linde E25 to E35 models are also available in explosion-proof versions. Close collaboration.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Ecommerce companies along with manufacturers are the two sectors currently trailblazing the uptake of this technology, but any company, large or small, with a warehouse and requirement for materials handling can benefit – whether they are in retail, apparel, automotive, electronics or third party logistics (3PL).

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To assist designers, I will outline seven key principles applicable to a warehouse or DC design, compiled from a review of literature, discussions with industry specialists and materials handling companies, plus my own design experience gained over many years and projects. For example: Why will it exist? Is it part of a network?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 14, 2022

Over the past few years, seventy percent of businesses experienced material handling and supply chain disruptions. Singapore, for example, relies on Malaysia for one-third of its total poultry supply. The dark side of supply chain disruptions. This was further exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 14, 2024

And, following a competitive tender process, Toyota Material Handling was awarded the contract to oversee the design and build of the new unit’s racking and storage scheme from start to finish. For example, having one point of contact allowed us to reduce the amount of management time we had to dedicate to the project considerably.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In fact, 97 percent of companies working with 3PL partners have reported successful relationships, asserts Material, Handling and Logistics, driven in part by stronger, more powerful technologies, including data-driven analytics, assessment of rate classification and improved customer-service capabilities. .

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Current liabilities are typically accounts payable, meaning the money you are due to payout, for example to suppliers. McDonalds, Amazon, Dell, General Electric, and Wal-Mart are examples. For example, airline companies must have jet engines periodically removed from aircraft for maintenance by the jet engine manufacturer.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The initiator of the event is once again the VDMA Materials Handling and Intralogistics Association with its member companies. B2B trade visitors can observe the functions of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) for themselves from 21st to 23rd March and exchange ideas with developers and scientists.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Smart attachments like Ravas iForks demonstrate how to shift forklift value away from mere materials handling and in the direction of data sampling. have created an ever-growing demand for data input as a tool to optimise supply chains and reach required profit levels. Logistics Business reports.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 18, 2016

When the Internet first arrived, the idea of waiting for an extended period to receive a product was great, asserts Gordon Hellberg of Material Handling and Logistics. The push toward a more efficient, data-driven supply chain will result in more competition among companies.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2023

So, to support warehouse applications, data driven simulation and up to date visualisation solutions are available now from Yale and its global network of independent local dealers. The Yale Warehouse Simulator allows experimentation with different layouts, equipment configurations and timings, in 2D and 3D, with data analysis.

Modeling Software 59

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2023

SICK has launched an industry-first safety light curtain system for Smart Box Detection, designed to enable the continuous safe material flow of cartons or cuboid goods at the entry or exit points of protected areas, while safeguarding people from dangerous materials-handling, conveying or packaging machinery.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

For example, in the future, staff scheduling need not be handled by employees, but rather can be carried out by intelligent software tools via data processing. Keywords like full data transparency, self-learning and self-recovery are hallmarks of TGW’s Future Fulfillment Center.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

No retailer or producer for example, wants to be implicated in a consumer health scare resulting from poor quality-management in their supply chain. In order to attain control over the entire supply chain , some larger supermarket chains are becoming directly involved in production activityfarming for example.

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