On-floor Seminars

Autonomous forklifts transport large materials in the enterprise, but working flexibly in complex environments is still a challenge. On one hand, as logistics robots massively enter logistics and production, the complexity of business processes begins to emerge and the limitations of autonomous forklifts' ...

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 ...

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 ...

Session will provide information on that state of the 3PL industry, how to select an appropriate 3PL partner; as well as how to convince prospects you would be an appropriate 3PL partner.

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 ...

Can you achieve better results by removing human-decision making in your warehouse? With the need to respond lightning fast and analyze numerous data points, are humans making the best decisions to maximize your throughput? Learn how automated decision making technology is delivering higher warehousing ...

Let the Battle Bots begin! So many AMR manufacturers, models and applications today are vying to provide your warehouse or distribution center with solutions. Though AMRs provide high: performance, flexibility, and cost justification, not every use case can/should use the same solution. Different applications, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pallets are a crucial element in the world of supply chains—playing an important role in the material flow within manufacturing and distribution facilities. The flow of pallet-sized loads is continuous, complex, and often difficult to manage—making up the bulk of the costs and time of personnel working ...

In today’s warehouse, volumes continue to grow, putting significant productivity demands on operators to meet customer deadlines and keep control of costs. Operators are turning to AMR technology to span the labor gap, improve cost efficiencies, easily scale to manage growth and volume spikes, and deliver ...

Are you considering integrating a new Automated System into your network? Approaching the Facility Construction, Infrastructure Upgrades, and Automation integration can be quite a daunting task. The amount of coordination required and the complexity of these highly automated projects can lead to costly ...

While automation has been front and center for many, it's remained on the fringe for many others.  Current market conditions such as a shrinking labor force and shifting skill sets are motivating  stragglers to further investigate the benefits of automation. Overcoming perceived obstacles and reimagining ...

There is increasing pressure on distribution, driven by rising costs, labor shortages, and ever-faster cycle times. The good news: a new paradigm for the smart, automated warehouse is emerging, leveraging new technologies, advanced software capabilities that include self-running warehouse operations, ...

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 ...