On-floor Seminars

Warehouses are bustling with the constant movement of people, merchandise, and equipment, creating the perfect environment for incidents to occur. How do you inspect, operate and maintain your pallet racks to keep your people and inventory safe and costs down? Charles Carbonneau (Ph.D.), head of an ...

Demands on your material handling operations grow increasingly complex and uncertain. Volatile energy costs, intense throughput demands, shifting operator demographics and even stringent sustainability requirements add new dimension and risk to decisions on motive power systems for your equipment. Traditional ...

In the ongoing pursuit of a greener future, companies of all sizes are embracing renewable energy in a big way. But how do you choose the right green energy source for your operations, while simultaneously ensuring it won't disrupt output and performance? Green Hydrogen is the answer. In this session ...

Movement of goods throughout an organization is a necessary but non-value-added task. Having multiple AGV or AMR types is also a challenge. The most efficient, flexible and transparent material transport within organizations is a critical. Mastering this task also represents a significant opportunity ...

Automation and robotics have never been more critical. But if you’re new to automation, how do you get started? Or if you’re already using automation, how do you take your strategy to the next level? How do you choose the right technologies and the right partners? How do you fine tune your strategies? ...

In this session we'll hear from ShipHero how they upgraded their operations with intelligent technologies – specifically digitization and automation – using existing facilities and operations. They were able to eliminate inefficiencies and better utilize their resources to increase productivity, without ...

Learn how to automatically inspect inside sealed boxes and totes moving on conveyors to automate your quality control and improve operational efficiencies, using human-safe 3D mmWave imaging.

When customer complaints, sluggish labor and high operating costs become too problematic to ignore, the status quo isn’t just not working – it’s holding you back from optimal performance. But is it possible to solve a combination of issues with just a new piece of technology? Join this session to hear ...

When it comes to designing a facility or system upgrade, order picking takes center stage. The technology and solutions are usually designed around picking operations. While there is no doubt that picking is key - due to the labor involved and direct impact over order efficiency - a common mistake is ...

The burden of liability and ever-increasing operating expenses encourage warehouse owners to seek trusted strategies to help them improve safety while reducing maintenance costs. Rack safety expert Marc Rousseau will show you a strategic framework based on best practices. You will leave the session ...

How much will a pallet rack system really cost? If you only look at the purchase price, you’re not factoring in the total cost of ownership. Looking at purchase price only could lead to much higher ongoing maintenance and loss-of-use costs over the life of your system. In this session, learn the questions ...

Following many decades of electric forklifts’ engineering evolution based on the single power-source technology (the lead-acid battery), electric lift trucks have finally adopted a new power source: a lithium-ion battery pack. The benefits of lithium solutions are well-known by now: longer runtime and ...

What is the perfect solution? It depends on the challenge, preferences, and often depends on the automation your partner has available. But by allowing yourself to have the flexibility to combine technologies from multiple providers you could potentially tap into one of the most highly efficient solutions ...

Guaranteeing business continuity in times of extreme labor scarcity is a daily challenge for distribution centers. To overcome this challenge and reduce dependency on manual labor, proven reliable robotic solutions are needed in your warehouse operation. In this seminar, you will learn how to successfully ...

What are the keys to designing a high performing warehouse of the future? The answer is very different than in the recent past. Today, supply chain leaders face continuously evolving challenges like labor, surges and a multitude of disruptions; to combat and thrive through these challenges, leaders must ...