On-floor Seminars

As companies continue to deploy more autonomous mobile platforms both inside and outside of their facilities interoperability between platforms will become an important requirement. This presentation will discuss the current status of the work being done to create a standard.

Traditional Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) are efficient – but are they “smart?” We have entered a new era in WMS, in which a combination of technologies – including Warehouse Execution Systems, sensors, mobile robots, AI, and machine learning – are delivering a step-change in warehouse system ...

See MODEX's latest and greatest advances presented to you in a short 25 minutes. This will allow you to stay laser focused on your objectives and reasons for attending Modex, and to see the new products and services you might have not have known were available. We will be reviewing the what, why and ...

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 ...

Liberty Hardware, a hardware fulfillment center, came to 6 River Systems (6RS) seeking a solution to keep up with their exponential growth due to brick and mortar sellers needing direct fulfillment in addition to wholesale orders and individual shoppers. 6RS deployed 16 Chucks in Liberty’s warehouse ...

The pandemic created a technology tipping point of historic proportions. Remaining competitive in this consumer- empowered era means getting in the race to be Omni-exceptional. New fulfillment models are helping retailers create new levels of convenience, immediacy and trust for their customers and new ...

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 ...

You are the right person in this seminar if you: - have challenges picking, sorting and packing the huge amount of Ecom orders that you experienced over the last few years. - are struggling with the returns that are coming with the above mentioned Ecom orders. - already heard about pouch sorters ...

Look around at MODEX and you’ll see robotic solutions at every turn. But how do you know which, if any of them, is right for your business? Is an AMR supported goods-to-person solution the one? Or is an automated put wall what you need? And what about software? How and where do you begin the process ...

The pandemic-induced e-commerce boom has accelerated the rate of change in buying behaviors, and that change has reverberated throughout the supply chain, placing a new series of demands on distribution operations. This session will address this period of flux by providing actionable takeaways that explore ...

What You Will Learn Labor shortages. Inventory delays. Limited warehouse vacancy. COVID-19-driven challenges thrusted logistics into the spotlight, and the warehouse emerged as the event horizon at the center of global commerce and public health. In parallel, a 2020 survey from McKinsey found that ...

Today, order fulfillment success requires precise orchestration of each and every order. You need powerful tools to define and execute business and fulfillment rules, both at the network-level and at each fulfillment node. The result: an enhanced customer experience, lower fulfillment costs, increased ...

MHI's newest Industry Group is called SLAM (Scan, Label, Apply, Manifest). Often the last steps in the fulfillment process can make or break your operations. Members of SLAM will present lessons learned and best practices when implementing the technologies and solutions that take your orders from the ...

Learn how to leverage a WMS implementation to address the challenges facing most operations in today’s environment. A first-hand case study presentation from a highly successful WMS implementation that resulted in a 30% improvement in labor efficiency, increased lines picked per hour by over 90%, reduced ...

As material handling continues to move towards autonomous robots and vehicles, there is still a need to interface these solutions with conveyor systems. Automated and autonomous vehicles are capable of being mobile conveyors to bridge the gap between fixed infrastructure and the flexible needs of the ...