articleIs Amazon suffering from a logistics cost crisis?
LCP Consulting asks: is Amazon’s Prime service is hurting the online retail giant from within?
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articleSwisslog and KUKA unveil new HRI Technology
For the first time, Swisslog exhibited with KUKA at Hannover Messe, presenting its jointly developed Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) concept named ‘Automated Item Pick’.
productLB Foster solution is top banana
When tropical produce importer, Fyffes, wanted to automate a banana ripening and distribution centre in Normanton, West Yorkshire, it turned to LB Foster Materials Handling of Leicester for a solution. The £520,000 project included the manufacture and installation of production lines and an accumulating pallet conveyor which is over 100m long.
productSovex renews UK servicing agreement with DHL Express
North West manufacturer Sovex has renewed a major servicing agreement with DHL Express UK & Ireland, the express delivery services and international shipping experts.
articleInterroll now manufacturing Portec belt curves in Europe
With the acquisition of Portec the leading US manufacturer of belt curves – back in 2013, Interroll will now begin to manufacture and market this reliable and robust solution in Europe.
articleQuick conveyor assembly with modular concept
Interroll’s modular conveyor platform helps its customers, system integrators and OEMs, to react to the growing importance of efficient material flow to end users.
articleHigh throughput achieved by picking robot
The first installation of KNAPP’s Pick-it-Easy Robot solution is operating successfully at the site of dental supplies wholesaler, Basiq Dental, in The Netherlands.
articleIf I had a hammer…
Tim Stokes, SICK (UK) Auto Ident specialist warns you to be sceptical when suppliers bang on about their ‘golden hammers’.
productIntelligent materials management
Testimony to Konecranes’ commitment to embracing the emerging industrial Internet is the company’s latest service innovation – Agilon – set to be launched in the UK in September. Standing as a patented, fully–automated and modular intelligent materials management solution, Konecranes says the system is set to revolutionise the way in which components are managed, stored, picked and replenished, irrespective of end-use application.
productDedicated service division
Power and control systems specialist, The Automated Technology Group, recently welcomed Conservative MP for Stafford, Jeremy Lefroy, to cut the ribbon on its brand-new site in Stafford. The strategically located facility has been opened to provide the base for the launch of the group’s service division.
articleTurnover up by 20% for KNAPP
The Austrian-owned automated handling company has increased turnover by 20% from 2013/14 to 2014/15 to over €466 million, with profit (EBIT) of €21m.
productUser-friendly features
Post print services supplier Comag Forward is continuing its long-standing relationship with strapping specialist Mosca Direct with the installation of four Mosca Romfusion automatic strapping machines at its distribution hub in Coventry.
articleSuperdrug NDC increases throughput by 48%
With eCommerce sales more than doubling year on year, Logistex was asked to design a solution capable of handling in excess of 60,000 orders per day.
articleLogistics robots – now and in the future
Robots and automated processes are taking a greater role in logistics, so what is do-able now and what is waiting in the future, asks HSS Editor Simon Duddy?
articlePicking plus
Work in the warehouse is increasingly multi-faceted, with employees being asked to multi-task. This versatility can be facilitated by voice technology, says Darrel Williams from Vocollect by Honeywell.
articleDeep freeze goes tall
Egemin Automation will build a new automated deep-freeze warehouse for producer of frozen French fries Agristo on its production site in Belgium.
articleProductivity doubled
Clothing retailer Cassis has deployed the ZetesMedea voice solution in its logistics centre allowing 20,000 items to be picked daily.
productIncreased capacity palletising robots
Capable of operating 2050 cycles per hour with a 130kg payload is the claim of Kawasaki Robotics for its new CP range of palletising robots. Three new models make up the CP range, offering maximum payloads of 180, 300 and 500kg.
productAssembly plant opens in China
This June CSi industries BV opened its first assembly plant in China. Despite relatively low labour costs the demand for automation in China is definitely on the increase as the country seeks to attract high quality engineering solutions to reduce its dependence on local labour.
productApplied Automation launches Carryline conveyors
Engineering firm Applied Automation (UK) is launching a range of Swedish conveyors.
