{"id":2094,"date":"2019-03-27T16:18:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T21:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2019-06-19T16:19:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:19:39","slug":"product-spotlight-the-robotics-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/27\/product-spotlight-the-robotics-group\/","title":{"rendered":"PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT:  The Robotics Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Robotics_Group_450x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2082\" src=\"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Robotics_Group_450x300-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Robotics_Group_450x300-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Robotics_Group_450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Recent Trends Lead to Creation of New MHI Industry Group: The Robotics Group <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>* By Katie Kuehner-Hebert *<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MHI has a new Industry Group, The Robotics Group, focusing on broader applications of robotics\u2014whether it\u2019s arms or vehicles\u2014within the fulfillment process to ease workforce availability problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaterial handling operators across the country all see the freight train coming\u2014a lack of labor available to support the growth of the industry, especially e-commerce,\u201d said Erik Nieves, founder of Plus One Robotics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs labor markets continue to tighten, people find more options for employment, which leaves warehouses and distribution centers in a high-churn scenario where they are perpetually onboarding and training staff,\u201d Nieves said. \u201cBy applying automation for the mundane tasks, people are freed up to move into more complex\u2014and engaging\u2014roles within the operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, there are a number of perceived barriers holding back early adopters of such technology that The Robotics Group will seek to identify, as well as find ways to mitigate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the barriers is that they just don\u2019t know how to justify that there\u2019s a business case for robotics,\u201d Nieves said. \u201cHow do they do quantify the benefits? Surely there is more than some labor savings. And how does automation get introduced and still fit within the overall workflow? No one wants to revamp the entire operation just to fit a robot in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other barrier is their concern over whether the technology is going to work for them, he said. \u201cWill they be able to keep this robot running?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warehouse managers are necessarily risk averse and need any solution to be reliable, so they want to know if early adopters were successful and what they had to learn to make the robots really effective, Nieves said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhisolutions-digital.com\/mhiq\/0219_volume_7_issue_2\/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1475611#articleId1475611\"><em>Read More&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Trends Lead to Creation of New MHI Industry Group: The Robotics Group * By Katie Kuehner-Hebert * MHI has a new Industry Group, The Robotics Group, focusing on broader applications of robotics\u2014whether it\u2019s arms or vehicles\u2014within the fulfillment process to ease workforce availability problems. \u201cMaterial handling operators across the country all see the freight &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38,40,35,39,37,36,24],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions-spotlight","tag-dave-robson","tag-dick-motley","tag-erik-nieves","tag-fanuc-america","tag-fetch-robotics","tag-plus-one-robotics","tag-the-robotics-group"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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