Zetes rolled out a combined voice and Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) system for the Co-op in Sweden, which the company says has pushed up productivity by some 70-80 per cent.
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Cargotec has customised an order of seven Kalmar reachstackers to improve pipe handling for Norwegian logistics firm NorSea Group.
Motorola has released the WT1090 – a voice-only wearable terminal designed for voice picking and other distribution applications.
Business secretary Lord Mandelson has unveiled ambitious plans to make the West Midlands a leader in low carbon technologies which will have significant supply chain implications.
PJH Group, which distributes bathrooms, kitchens and appliances to the home improvement market, has placed a £150,000 order with Solarsoft Business Systems for new voice picking software and Psion Teklogix WORKABOUT PRO units.
One e-commerce retailer has found strong customer support for moving over to a more environmentally friendly box filler.
International cheese and nutritional ingredients group, Glanbia, has seen picking accuracy levels shoot up to 100 per cent, since installing a voice-directed order picking system at two warehouses and two manufacturing plants in Ireland.
Excel Automation has completed all four phases of a contract to upgrade the Chivas Brothers’ palletisation and automatic dispatch facility in Dumbarton.
Over the past few years the growth of globalisation has challenged logisticians to deal with the massive changes of moving from local to international supply chains.
FP International has launched two environmentally friendly packaging lines.
