On-floor Seminars

Minimizing risk is at the core of all decision-making when it comes to moving freight – how do you know if you’ve made the right call and selected the right carrier? Using the traditional approach, the answer won’t become evident until after the deal is done and the freight delivered. Oftentimes, bias ...

Software is a tool for delivering the customer experience a company wants to offer. Software should make it easy for companies to deliver what the customer cares about most: speed, quality, cost, capacity and more. With today’s acceleration of digital transformation, customers expect companies to be ...

Erik Nieves, co-founder and CEO of Plus One Robotics will provide an overview of industrial automation and explain how technology is enabling digitization of the supply chain at a pace that wasn’t possible even a decade ago. Technologies like AMRs which provide greater mobility, and robots armed with ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 cloud has transformed many different industries, companies and applications, so why would robotics be any different? While “lifting and shifting” basic functionality such as fleet management, analytics, and workflow development to the cloud is valuable from an availability and uptime perspective, ...

Logistics facilities have a need for more intelligent robotic systems, which are value-adding, production-ready, and reduce the cost of the overall material handling solution. The next generation of robots should be capable of perception, awareness, and autonomous decision-making, which will allow companies ...

From manufacturing through fulfillment, today’s supply chain requires increased visibility to ensure accuracy and quality. ThruWave has now expanded that visibility to see and inspect inside of sealed containers, cartons, and totes when moving on high-speed conveyors, up to 600 ft/min, to analyze and ...

Next-generation DCs will combine robots with people in ways that are far more fluid and dynamic than traditional automated or manual facilities. As a result, warehouse operators face new challenges in coordinating and optimizing the work of humans and their robotic coworkers. Lucas Systems and Fetch ...

With a limited amount of labor resources on any given day inside a facility, robotic automation is the key to maintaining and increasing production. A new breed of quick deploying, cost efficient robotic workcells are available to automate dexterous and labor intensive tasks such as end of line packaging, ...

Most 3PLs don’t have the level of visibility to understand the true cost of picking errors. In this presentation, Jerome Dubois, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of 6 River Systems, will break down the impact of a mispick on a hypothetical company’s budget.

The recent influx of investment and technology to the supply chain space has been a boon for productivity. However, as a practitioner, trying to understand which technologies can have the biggest impact often involves wading through a buzzword soup. After you decide to invest in automation solutions, ...

As Supply Chain and Logistics companies look to automate and digitalize their warehouses and distribution hub centers, the need for a high-performance, reliable, and secure wireless network becomes an essential part of their connectivity infrastructure. While Wi-Fi has been the default wireless network ...

The pandemic has placed increased stress on supply chains from all sides. Demand for goods has increased significantly for many businesses, and a robust e-commerce distribution capability has become table-stakes to compete in this new environment. At the same time however, distribution centers are experiencing ...