{"id":1467,"date":"2017-06-09T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2017-09-15T08:55:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:55:22","slug":"supply-chain-transformers-how-robotics-and-automation-are-changing-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/09\/supply-chain-transformers-how-robotics-and-automation-are-changing-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply Chain Transformers! How Robotics and Automation Are Changing the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1468\" src=\"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MHI-Q0317-robotics-image-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MHI-Q0317-robotics-image-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MHI-Q0317-robotics-image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MHI-Q0317-robotics-image-768x772.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MHI-Q0317-robotics-image-1018x1024.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MHI-Q0317-robotics-image-795x800.jpg 795w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MHI-Q0317-robotics-image-530x533.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MHI-Q0317-robotics-image.jpg 1044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>At ProMat, people were saying: \u2018That\u2019s the future!\u2019 I was saying: \u2018That\u2019s the present,\u2019\u201d says Rafael Granato, marketing director for MHI member PINC Solutions. He\u2019s referring to the company\u2019s drone systems, which can fly through a manufacturing or distribution center facility under their own direction to take inventory. Automation and robotics have come of age; they\u2019ve reached the tipping point from being a solution for only the top rank of companies to a solution spreading throughout the entire industry.<\/p>\n<p>One driving factor is the increasing sophistication of today\u2019s robotic devices; instead of performing relatively simple, programmed tasks, they are able to assess variables, make decisions and choose the best course of action\u2014such as changing their routing to avoid obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a time when automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) were an elitist product, and really only applied within Fortune 50 companies\u2014and even with those, only on a very plant-by-plant basis,\u201d says Mark Longacre, marketing manager, automated systems for MHI member JBT Corporation. \u201cToday, it\u2019s a whole different environment. The product range has expanded a lot; that has really opened up these products to mid-size companies, and Fortune 50 companies are looking at enterprise-wide deployment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, says Simon Drexler, director of products for MHI member Otto Motors (a division of Clearpath Robotics Inc.), \u201cthe material handling market in the United States alone is about $100 billion. About $20 billion of that is allocated to fork trucks, tuggers and industrial vehicles and their drivers. About $80 billion is people moving things around. With traditional technology, the AGV market is about $150 million of that $100 billion market. Then we have new technology available that\u2019s part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re making this transition from hard-coded rigid systems to autonomous flexible systems, where the behaviors of the systems are based on the sensory perceptions of the machines,\u201d says Melonee Wise, CEO of MHI member Fetch Robotics. \u201cIf they are blocked on their path, they will recompute it, whereas traditional AGVs, would just stop and wait until the path was unblocked, which is not as efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>By Sarah B. Hood<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/naylor\/MHIQ\/MHIQ0317\/index.php#\/14\"><strong>Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At ProMat, people were saying: \u2018That\u2019s the future!\u2019 I was saying: \u2018That\u2019s the present,\u2019\u201d says Rafael Granato, marketing director for MHI member PINC Solutions. He\u2019s referring to the company\u2019s drone systems, which can fly through a manufacturing or distribution center facility under their own direction to take inventory. Automation and robotics have come of age; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":1468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Supply Chain Transformers! 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