Category Archives: Automation

Autostore expands local footprint

In a move that AutoStore says is set to disrupt the warehouse automation industry, AutoStore has announced its strategic penetration of the market, in line with the company’s bold plans for global growth. Through the recent appointment of local business development manager, Jason Wu, the company is well-positioned to expand its footprint across New ZealandContinue reading “Autostore expands local footprint”

MATCHING SHUTTLE TECHNOLOGIES TO APPLICATIONS

Implementations of shuttle based automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) for goods-to-person (GtP) order fulfilment — particularly in direct-to-consumer e-commerce applications — are on the rise says Roald de Groot, sales director Warehouse Solutions at Vanderlande. He says these systems enable operations to hold, organise, track, and access a large volume of vastly different stockContinue reading “MATCHING SHUTTLE TECHNOLOGIES TO APPLICATIONS”

MHI AND MITSUBISHI LOGISNEXT TO START AUTOMATED PICKING

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd (MHI) and Mitsubishi Logisnext Co, Ltd, part of MHI Group, have completed development of an automated picking system. This system integrates automated guided forklifts (AGFs), automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and palletisers. LogiQ X Labo, a demonstration facility for this new logistics solution, has also opened at Yokohama Hardtech Hub (YHH), aContinue reading “MHI AND MITSUBISHI LOGISNEXT TO START AUTOMATED PICKING”

VANDERLANDE:

Matching shuttle technologies to applications Implementations of shuttle based automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) for goods-to-person (GtP) order fulfillment — particularly in direct-to-consumer e-commerce applications — are on the rise according to Roald de Groot, sales director warehousing solutions at Vanderlande. These systems, he says, enable operations to hold, organise, track, and access aContinue reading “VANDERLANDE:”

POCKET INNOVATION…

Vanderlande’s AirTrax Pocket supports The Beehive’s premium service Vanderlande has installed its advanced AirTrax Pocket for Netherland’s department store retailer de Bijenkorf (or ‘The Beehive’) at its Tilburg warehouse, the first large-scale system of its kind in The Netherlands. The omni-channel solution is now fully operational. The Pocket sorter supports three areas on site: B2CContinue reading “POCKET INNOVATION…”

Woolworths Selects Vanderlande’s StorePick solution for new Sydney DC

Vanderlande has signed a new contract with Australia’s largest food and grocery retailer, Woolworths, to deliver StorePick, a robotised, end-to-end automated case picking (ACP) warehouse solution. The system will be installed in a new, innovative regional distribution centre (DC) in Moorebank Logistics Park in Sydney and will supply over 200 stores in New South WalesContinue reading “Woolworths Selects Vanderlande’s StorePick solution for new Sydney DC”

Hyperautomation: What’s the hype?

According to Gartner, the tech trend of 2021 was hyperautomation — a business approach of automating as many processes as possible. Gartner predicts that, by 2024, hyperautomation will help organisations reduce operational costs by 30%. Successful execution of hyperautomation promises increased efficiency and reduced costs, but what are the barriers to pulling it off? Johan Jonzon, CMO and co-founder of pioneer in edge analytics and integration, Crosser, explores.