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Gap Inc. Expands its E-fulfillment Network
A new 800,000-square-foot DC in Texas optimizes fulfillment processes and the network.

4 Trends Impacting Picking Accuracy
Advances in automation and robotics are helping to streamline picking activities.

Food and Beverage Challenged to do More With Less
Consumers have more products, sizes and options available than ever before. They can buy online or in-store, and they need it now. On the flip side, costs have never been...

AutoStore: PickUpPort™ for Buy-Online-Pickup-in-Store (BOPIS) Strategy
The PickUpPort™ is the first public-facing port from AutoStore, allowing for a simple, efficient buy-online-pick-up-in-store customer experience. The Port helps retailers expand their omnichannel supply chain and meet consumer demand.

Beckhoff Automation: Revolutionary Planar Motor System
Beckhoff Introduces Contact-free, Flying Motion Technology with XPlanar. Revolutionary planar motor system uses free-floating movers with six degrees of freedom for new motion control concepts.

Beckhoff welcomed into key MHI industry groups
By joining the MHI Solutions Community and CSS groups, Beckhoff further commits to supplying innovative automation technologies for intralogistics

Efficient production and cost reduction with an integrated, ultra-compact control platform
Resource efficiency is the number one topic in the tyre industry: ranging from tyre resistance and associated fuel consumption

Seegrid: Supervisor fleet management tool
Display shows time of arrival between stations

Dove Tree Canyon Software, Inc.: PoweredPik Powered Mobile Batch Sortation Matrix
WCS supports mobile batch sortation cart

Reis Robotics: Line of Robots for Die Casting Automation
A line of robots for die casting automation delivers measurable energy savings with complete process and system integration. Used in a flexible standard cell configuration, the robot picks the parts...

BarCode ID Systems: Automation IQ Industrial Middleware
Automation IQ industrial middleware from BarCode ID Systems gives IT and operations managers more control of—and intelligence from—manufacturing processes. Capable of pinpointing where manufacturing systems are breaking down,...

Savant Automation: Q-CANDesigner quick-configurable automation software
Create, alter AGV path layout with software