ProMat provides visitors a chance to see how material handling equipment, technologies, and software solve real-world order fulfillment, logistics, and manufacturing problems. Today we are witnessing an unprecedented increase in consumers purchasing online. Couple the global pandemic with an already ...

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are becoming more and more industry standard. AGV technology itself is common across numerous suppliers. However, key elements such as the logistics interface for IT integration and the trend toward lithium-ion (Li-Ion) battery systems with automatic charging, continue ...

What’s next in automation? Autonomous equipment is already cleaning floors, stocking warehouse shelves, and steering vehicles on the road. But this is only possible with the human interaction required to charge the equipment. Have you considered the time cost of uncharged equipment as a result of ...

Whether your goals are focused on performance, reliability, reducing touch points, labor or cost optimization – robotic order picking is top of mind for many companies today. Join two of the world’s foremost experts on the subject of order picking robotics as they deliver core insights to help you implement ...

It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Your distribution model will have to adapt to ongoing business changes. Oftentimes, businesses are faced with two choices: 1. Build a totally new distribution center, OR 2. Retrofit an existing distribution center while staying operational. Successfully ...

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are capable of transporting loads up to 1,500 kilograms. Superior vision and mapping technologies enable Fetch mobile robots to perceive and navigate warehouse and factory environments. They’re intelligent enough to dynamically reroute around obstacles without operator ...

The buzzword in industrial robotics today is “collaborative,” and for good reason. This capability enables easier teachability and greater safety across the robotics ecosystem. Originally, industrial robots could only operate around people if they were caged because of how potentially dangerous they ...

Learn how intelligent logistic robots leverage AGV/AMR-technology, AI, and modular software and hardware, to deliver operational flexibility. True Industry 4.0 solutions mitigate issues related to data intelligence, unpredictable changes in inventory, customer demand and operational changes. Flexible ...

Up to very recently the material handling automation industry concentrated almost exclusively on storage, retrieval and transportation of goods. This session provides a broad overview of the latest approaches to automated and robotic order picking, with an emphasis on application fundamentals, performance, ...

This seminar will communicate how the growth of e-commerce (including the acceleration of that growth triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic) has affected supply chain networks (facility locations and mission), facility design for both major hubs and last mile e-commerce facilities and real estate pressure ...

With the increasing demand for speed and flexibility, companies are being forced to rethink how they handle their supply chain and logistics. One transition that many companies are considering is the move towards automation including robotics, AGV’s, and IoT within their operations. One of the enablers ...

In this session, OTTO Motors CEO and Co-Founder, Matthew Rendall and PULSE Integration's Chief of Strategy & Innovation, Matthew Chang, will explore one of the world’s first ‘at scale’ AMR deployments. Using a real-world example of AMR deployment at a F500 company, OTTO Motors and PULSE Integration will ...