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Melissa Auer, CEM, Manager of Exhibitor Services Amy Shelton, Creative Manager The people who work at MHI are the gears that keep the association rolling. They ensure MHI continues to be a valuable association and resource for people involved in the industry, and do so with wit, competence and a smile on their face. The goal of this column in ...

CEO UPDATE: Next-Gen Supply Chain Technology — By George W. Prest, Chief Executive Officer, MHI Anyone who attended MODEX 2018 will tell you, technology is disrupting supply chains and early adopters are successfully combining NextGen innovations to improve speed and agility and increase efficiency and visibility. These trends and technologies are having a dramatic business impact on supply chains, their ...

2018 MHI Annual Industry Report Highlights NextGen Innovations and How to Overcome Top Barriers to Their Adoption * By Carol Miller, MHI Vice President of Marketing and Communications * For the fifth consecutive year, MHI and the Deloitte Consulting LLP research team—led by Scott Sopher, principal and leader of the Global Supply Chain Practice—queried more than 1,100 manufacturing and supply ...

They’re collaborative, they’re autonomous, they’re intelligent. Fast-evolving technology in robotics—now often called “co-botics”—is allowing machines to pick, pack, tug and transport in ways they haven’t in the past. Cheaper than ever, more flexible than ever, they’re offering sensible solutions to the supply chain’s increasing need for speed. * By Amy Drew Thompson * Valvoline. Volleyball nets. Vegan cookbooks. Viagra. A ...

Is Blockchain the Answer to Supply Chain Security? * By Mary Lou Jay * Three years ago, when Nick Vyas spoke at the University of Southern California’s Supply Chain Digital Transformation Hackathon, he asked the 300-member audience how many had ever heard of blockchain. “Just four hands went up,” recalled Vyas, assistant professor of clinical data sciences and operations at ...

By Greg Baer, MHI Director of Sales For the sixth year, MHI honored the MODEX exhibitors deemed by an expert panel of industry insiders to have created the most innovative products and solutions in our industry. Prior to MODEX in April, exhibitors were invited to submit entries in three different categories: Best New Innovation, Best Innovation of an Existing Product ...

* By Fiona Soltes * It’s generally understood that the digital, “Next-Gen” supply chain will be the predominant way of operating in coming years. Still up for debate, however, is when that expectation will finally become reality. “The adoption rate has not been progressing as fast as everybody anticipated five years ago,” admits Scott Sopher, principal and leader of the ...

Artificial Intelligence Poised to Have Big Impact on Supply Chains * By Nick Fortuna * One machine looks like the world’s biggest Roomba vacuum cleaner, and the other is somewhat reminiscent of the classic claw-machine arcade games that let players try to grab a prize of their choosing, usually to no avail. But the self-driving vehicle and the bin-picking robot ...

The Definition of Last Mile Is Changing and So Are the Solutions and Options * By Sandy Smith * If there was any doubt just how important the last mile was throughout the supply chain, consider this cautionary note from the 2018 MHI Annual Industry Report: “An inability to solve the riddle of the last mile has driven many promising ...