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Automation
Building the Connected Warehouse
Materials handling innovations help warehouses and distribution centers steadily move past fully manual operations, boosting speed and efficiency in the process. Next, the focus shifts to integrating these disparate technologies into a single, cohesive ecosystem.
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Warehouse Robots At Your Service
Offering increased integration options and AI enhancements, warehouse automation systems give workers an even greater assist.
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The New Operating Model For Warehouse Performance
Four pillars of high-performing operations have emerged: workforce resilience, operational flexibility, automation readiness, and performance management.
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Driverless Trucks Are Already Delivering to Walmart. Can Your Operation Afford to Wait?
PepsiCo has 41 driverless trucks on the road. The economics are starting to make sense for other companies, too.
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Commanding Attention: Autonomous Tech Makes Gains
Companies are logging supply chain autonomy milestones with real-world testing and completed runs across land, air, and sea.
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You Diversified Your Suppliers, But What About Your Robots?
We often think about supply chain risk as something that happens upstream: an extreme weather event delaying a shipment from a single-source supplier or a carrier battling a data breach. That’s no longer the whole picture here. There are risks just as serious much closer to home.
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Clean Tech Hits Its Stride as Freight Faces a Defining Moment
ACT Expo 2026 signals a shift from experimentation to execution across fleets, fuels, and automation.
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10 Tips to Optimize Warehouse Automation
Warehouses are rapidly deploying automation, yet many fail to achieve their full return on investment. The challenge isn’t the hardware but poor coordination, creating “islands of automation” that worsen bottlenecks instead of synchronizing systems.
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3 Pillars of a Resilient Supply Chain
Rapidly evolving business dynamics, coupled with rising costs and labor constraints, have underscored the critical need for a resilient supply chain. A fully connected, technology-driven infrastructure strategy is required to maintain market share and successfully navigating this challenge requires an integrated approach anchored by three core pillars.
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When Will We Start Seeing Fully Autonomous Supply Chains?
100% Autonomous? Up in the Air Trick question. Full autonomy is likely already happening in some small pockets of the global economy. Scale is the real variable. Agentic AI is collapsing timelines fast: By 2030 the tech is ready and deployed for most routine decisions. However, 100% autonomy at scale takes decades: Human organizations change […]
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Building an Automation-Ready Warehouse Workforce in a Volatile Labor Market
Why workforce readiness—not technology alone—has become the defining factor in warehouse resilience.
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How Automation Builds Resilient Supply Chains
Resilience is the new efficiency. As automation touches every supply chain process—from picking to final delivery—future-proof solutions demand clean data, a holistic vision, and the right software backbone to weather any disruption.
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IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions
The Hyster J45-70A is an updated electric counterbalanced forklift, with zero exhaust emissions, in the 4,500- to 7,000-pound capacity range. Designed for industrial operations, it can be configured with a range of drive motor and battery options for outdoor and indoor applications.
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Supply Chain Predictions: Roadmap to 2030
Explore the strategic roadmap to 2030. Industry experts share predictions on AI adoption, autonomous vehicles, and the critical technology shifts required to stay competitive over the next decade.
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Robotics Turbocharge Inventory
With AI-optimized intelligence and storage-capacity boosting configurations, these robotics systems speed order fulfillment and enable supply chain efficiency gains.
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Last-Mile Solutions: Delivering the Future
New technologies are transforming last-mile delivery from a cost center into a strategic differentiator. Drones, robots, intelligent routing, and other innovations are reshaping how goods move and how brands win loyalty.
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Making Automation Less Scary: Addressing Obstacles and Setting Goals
Deploying automation can feel overwhelming. That’s why the starting points can’t be technology. It must be people and process.
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Generation AI: Preparing for the Future of Supply Chain
Here’s how companies are developing the workforce of the future and how current practitioners can future-proof their careers.
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Light the Way: Training Made Simple With LightSort® Pick-and-Put Solution
When a consolidator needed a fast, simple way to onboard warehouse workers, Engineering Innovation’s LightSort provided an intuitive solution that worked from day one.
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From Labor Retention to Continuous Flow: How DCs Are Redefining Efficiency
Leading warehouse automation solution providers are transforming distribution centers and empowering the workforce.
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