On-floor Seminars

New warehouses are propagating that offer radical advantages in flexibility and modularity along with notable net reductions in both material and cost. While traditional warehousing relies heavily on fixed infrastructure, equipment operators, and capital-intensive material handling equipment, micro-fulfillment ...

Advanced LED technology allows users an unprecedented level of personalized utility in unique form factors and capability sets. Industrial lighting plays an important role in operator ergonomics, system productivity, and the quality of work being completed. Selecting and designing proper industrial lighting ...

What a challenging year we all have just been through. Every business has been forced to challenge their previous perceptions for the world we all now operate. While voice technology has been in use for more than twenty years, the technology has progressed this past year by leaps and bounds. Some of ...

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 ...

This seminar provides a real-life step-by-step analysis of the application of risk mitigation strategies to a palletizing cell. This scenario is applicable to many manufacturing and distribution scenarios where a palletizing or box packing robot needs to be safe. After defining the PLr, you will review ...

The explosion of e-commerce and the labor crunch are combining to drive advances in automation to meet the demand. There is an army of robots, AGVs, AS/RS systems, and technology, some of it yet to be invented, descending on your warehouses and distribution centers. To optimize the benefits of any new ...

Session will provide information on that state of the 3PL industry, how to select an appropriate 3PL partner; as well as how to convince prospects you would be an appropriate 3PL partner.

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 ...

Warehouses are bustling with the constant movement of people, merchandise, and equipment, creating the perfect environment for incidents to occur. How do you inspect, operate and maintain your pallet racks to keep your people and inventory safe and costs down? Charles Carbonneau (Ph.D.), head of an ...

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 ...