On-floor Seminars

Panel Discussion: The fragility of many supply chains was brutally exposed during the outbreak of the pandemic: poor visibility, lack of information, lengthy lead times, missing inventory, lack of manpower, over corrections, and the list goes on. Some companies fared much better than others, thanks to ...

Innovation and safeguarding improvements are critical to protecting people and products in industrial and supply chain facilities. In 2020, the estimated total cost of workplace injuries was $163.9 billion, while improper Machine Guarding has ranked near the top of OSHA violations in each of the past ...

The safe use of a storage rack system is key to the productivity of a warehouse. We discuss the resources available from the Rack Manufacturers Institute that can be used to design and implement a safe rack system. We discuss the inspections necessary in maintaining a safe rack system. We discuss how ...

Warehousing and distribution thought leaders will discuss what's new and what is needed to tap into the immense value that both people and technology bring to their supply chain performance, how robots (working in harmony with the human factor) can deliver labor savings and what innovative automation ...

As businesses continue to seek insight on prioritization of their limited investment dollars, how will you generate the business case for your project? This moderated panel session will share insight, learnings and mistakes on projects focused on ROI outcomes. In addition, how that differs from the business ...

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 ...

As ecommerce becomes the norm in warehousing and distribution, the need to adapt storage and retrieval systems is imminent. RMI industry experts will share how rack system designs are changing to meet the requirements in the ecommerce world.

MHI’s newly formed Condition Monitoring & Reliability Committee will share lessons from real industry experiences – both painful lessons and shining successes when seeking to transform your business with condition monitoring. You can expect to learn about fundamentals of a condition monitoring solution ...

Integrating workflows in your operations is a critical task – and can make or break your facility. But have you considered all the aspects that impact your operations at an enterprise level? On this panel we will discuss integrating robotics with humans and other standard automation including utilizing ...

Are you concerned with the operational safety of your conveyance & sortation systems? Is your system safe for both operators and operations? With more warehouse & material handling systems becoming automated the safety of operators and operations is coming to the forefront of the conversation. Machines ...

“If your company uses enterprise systems to support key business processes — and that’s almost every big firm these days — you should be exploring process mining.” Harvard Business Review Process optimization isn’t a new concept – improvement initiatives from “as is” to “future state” have helped ...

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 ...

Customers have been asked to choose between implementing a manual process or investing in a large, costly ASRS solutions for order fulfillment, with few options in between available in the market. Due to trending labor shortages, manual fulfillment operations have proven to be flexible but not scalable. ...

In today’s marketplace, people want their products without delay, and since the COVID lockdowns, they’ve become accustomed to fast & free delivery. Consumers' expectations for access to products and speed of delivery have rapidly risen, and it’s driving changes throughout industrial machinery, manufacturing, ...

MIX - Green Solution for Goods-to-Person. This innovative warehousing solution effectively combines the flexibility of latent AMR Goods-to-Person and the high storage advantage of Shuttle AMR Totes-to-Person, which simultaneously supports the storage and picking of large, medium and small sizes parcels. ...