Browsing: Automation

Deciding whether automation is appropriate for your operation is not always straightforward. We asked industry experts for their tips on how to make the right decisions.

CeMAT, the giant materials handling show, kicks off in Hanover on 2nd May under the tagline “Sustainability in intralogistics”. Here’s a quick guide to some of the new products at the show

Online retailer Play.com has hired Cheshire based factory and logistics automation company Conveyor Networks for a three year contract to support a fulfilment system it installed last year

Ruprich becomes managing director at Penske; FB Chain names Church managing director; Knapp appoints Priestly business development manager; Kwik-Fit hires 74 “master technicians”

Halfords is now able to send out up to 200,000 items a day after consolidating two distribution centres into a single unit in Coventry and installing a Dematic picking system.

It’s all a matter of choice, of course, but ensuring that you have the right picking system for your particular product needs careful thought. Malory Davies examines some of the issues.