On-floor Seminars

The pace of change in materials handling automation keeps accelerating, and the progress of enabling technologies like machine vision, motion planning and grasping are major drivers. But operations have important questions when it comes to this relentless advance of technology, including what manual ...

Is your warehouse future-proof? Is it agile, scalable and adaptable? It can be. Join Manhattan Associates’ Adam Kline to discover how cloud-native systems empower organizations to profitably deliver in today’s modern warehouse and keep up with constantly changing demands.

The global market for Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) is projected to reach US $10.5 billion by 2027. With numerous and diverse options available in the market, determining the right solution for your business can seem complicated. In this session, OPEX discusses the evolution of ASRS, ...

Today, automated guided vehicles, laser-guided vehicles, and self-driven forklifts represent the most flexible, reliable, and advanced technology to integrate all the supply chain operations. Since AGVs and LGVs are constantly in motion, operating unmanned over large areas in manufacturing and distribution, ...

Your business requires efficient energy solutions to increase uptime, reduce costs and overcome the challenges of today with increased demands for speed and sustainability. The right partner can provide a solution for not only where you need to be now, but where you want to be in the future. Learn more ...

Learn how to identify and fix common ERP issues that affect inventory accuracy, costing and pricing, purchasing and material planning, resource scheduling, and customer satisfaction. Most operational leaders spend months or years selecting the best ERP application for their distribution or manufacturing ...

Today, Li-ion batteries are perhaps best known for their use in a variety of portable electronic devices and cars, but these modern energy sources are also increasingly being specified in materials handling equipment. That leaves many materials handling professionals with questions: what are the differences ...

Is your team struggling to handle heavy and unusually shaped packages? Join us to discover the GENI-Flex™ - an automated sortation system from Fives that efficiently connects oversize, overweight, and unusually shaped packages with their destination. A fully scalable solution flexible enough ...

With supply chains in flux and ecommerce orders surging, automation is increasingly being leveraged to reduce labor dependencies while also improving distribution efficiencies, fulfillment timeframes, customer service, cost savings and resilience. However, determining the right application for warehouse ...

Rapid growth led MJ Holding, the largest North American distributor of trading cards, to determine it was time to combine multiple inventory locations into a new warehouse that could accommodate all on-hand inventory. The company originally planned to copy their current facility layout and picking processes ...

The modern supply chain is no longer a linear process, but a dynamic one. Meeting the complex needs of a demanding market requires a dynamic approach that solves operations and labor challenges while delivering insights on safety, providence, and location of goods. This new, node-to-node approach leverages ...

What to consider when adding autonomous vehicles to a facility. From choosing the right of vehicle, to planning the first install, to scaling across a single facility and beyond. Whether you're starting with one facility or rolling out automation across multiple facilities, this session is for you.

As the installed base of MFCs continues to grow, key questions that faced early adopters are being answered. The automation systems that deliver the best combination of density, flexibility and throughput have been clearly established; design and implementation processes refined; and critical software ...

With an array of power choices available for today’s industrial fleets – from traditional lead acid batteries to advanced chemistries including Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) and Lithium-ion (Li-ion) – it can be challenging for warehouse managers to determine the solution that’s best for their unique fleet. ...

What’s better than robotics for micro-fulfillment? Robotics combined with virtual reality (VR) training for workers. With increasingly smaller micro-fulfillment center footprints, dedicating production space to worker training can mean losing significant operational efficiency every time a worker needs ...