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A lot is happening and changing in mobile automation, with emerging technologies bringing even greater value to warehouse managers and new products coming to market that are revolutionizing how mobile automation is viewed and being incorporated.

Safety is paramount for the operation of any equipment in a warehouse space, but it takes on particular gravity in the field of underhung cranes and monorail systems, which are installed in facilities for overhead material handling and load movement.

The annual DC Measures Study and Report confirmed and quantified the challenges faced by warehousing and distribution professionals over the past 24 months.

Robots can be equipped with a variety of interchangeable end effectors tailored to handling specific kinds of products, which is making them invaluable on the warehouse floor and in other material handling environments.

While the hallmarks of this year’s economic activity in the United States and other advanced economies have been slower year-on-year growth rates with relatively high inflation, the pressures on EM and LIDC economies are dire—and mounting with each passing month.

Cassie Johnson, a MHEFI award winner, joined global technology company ABB right out of college and is taking part in their Discovery Program. She is rotating through three different areas of business, spending eight months in each role.

The Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) announced the launch of the new DC Measures Benchmarking Tool, available online. This new digital resource is designed to help practitioners, 3PLs and consultants leverage hard data to measure and improve operational performance for either themselves or clients. The DC Measures data creates benchmarks for warehouse operations from a proven set of data, ...

At warehouses and distribution centers, the migration toward automation is taking on greater urgency in 2022, and late adopters are realizing they can’t afford to sit on the sidelines any longer.

MHI Industry Group, the Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association, has launched the ProGMA Protective Guarding Search Tool—a search engine for protective guarding equipment.

The Material Handling Education Foundation, Inc. (MHEFI) Board of Directors announced the election of three new directors whose terms began January 1, 2022