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Brightpick’s Autopicker Increases Order Fulfillment Visibility

Brightpick offers a warehouse automation solution for order fulfillment with its Autopicker, an autonomous mobile robot capable of picking and consolidating orders as it moves around the aisles of a warehouse.

According to the company, the advantages of using Autopicker include a 95% savings on picking labor cost, non-requirement of centralized picking stations, ease-of-installation, and scalability.

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Brightpick | The world’s most efficient warehouse automation solution for order fulfillment (Feb 14, 2023, Brightpick)

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By Anita Lee-Post, Ph.D.|2023-03-10T03:28:00+00:00March 10, 2023|Tags: automation, ERP, order fulfillment, robot, warehouse|

How Digital Data Enables Strategic Fit

While Carhartt traces its roots back 133 years, the company is now implementing digital tools (cloud, analytics, artificial intelligence, etc.) to improve its overall supply chain operations.

To implement process improvements, data must be timely, accurate, and relevant. A common expression amongst operations leaders: for something to be “meaningful” it also needs to be “measurable.” Hence the requirement for real-time data analytics.

Carhartt continues to improve its operational capabilities—for example increasing factory automation—as a means to further enhance a differentiated business strategy […]

By James Kirby Easterling|2023-01-04T07:24:05+00:00January 8, 2023|Tags: analytics, artificial intelligence, automation, data mining, inventory management, logistics, MRP, operations strategy, strategy, supply chain mapping, warehouse|

Agility Robotics Is Developing a Bipedal Robot for Warehouses

Agility Robotics is focusing on developing a bipedal ‘Digit’ robot that can unpack trucks and move boxes around warehouses.

Additional funding is secured to expand operations to three locations, namely Oregon, Bay Area, and Pittsburg, to deliver its robots to customers including Amazon and Ford.

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The Future of Robotics (Apr 22, 2022, Agility Robotics)

This post is based on the TechCrunch article, As it brings its bipedal robots to market, Agility announces a […]

By Anita Lee-Post, Ph.D.|2022-06-06T07:07:25+00:00June 16, 2022|Tags: innovation, last mile delivery, process design, robotics, robots, technology, warehouse, warehousing|

Pop-Up Container Yards Add Storage Capacity For Port of Savannah

Pop-up container yards have reduced congestion at the Port of Savannah, in Georgia.

The pop-up container yard concept, combined with working 24 hours a day, helped reduce the number of cargo vessels waiting to be unloaded from 31 to 6 in late 2021.

Set up in idle rail yards, pop-up container yards are stocked ‘five by five’, five containers high by five wide. These mini-yards help get cargo off ships, away from the dock, and allow more ships to be unloaded.

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By Anita Lee-Post, Ph.D.|2022-01-31T03:00:05+00:00January 31, 2022|Tags: cargo container, logistics, process layout, storage, transportation, waiting line, warehouse|