newsIgus showcases multi-direction drives for automated warehouses
Igus combines drylin SLW linear technology with opposed rotating leadscrews to provide flexible and precise drive systems for automated warehouses.
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productReliable detection of medicine packages
Light section sensors designed for fully automated warehousing modules in pharmacy picking systems.
productUPS to build £120m sortation centre at London Gateway
The 32,000 sq m package sorting and delivery facility at the DP World London Gateway logistics site is one of the company’s largest infrastructure investments outside of the USA.
productUltrasonic sensors
Offering enhanced performance capability in its distance sensor portfolio, SICK has extended its family of compact ultrasonic detectors with the introduction of the UM12, UC30-2 and the UC4-Fast sensors.
news18 warehouse complex for Scotch whisky manufacturer
John Dewar & Sons has opened a blending and maturation facility in central Scotland that features a complex of 18 warehouses across the 100-acre site.
articleInsider advises on revamping your pharma supply chain
The pharmaceutical industry is facing enormous changes. Before joining Swisslog, Michiel Veenman spent 5 years optimising warehouse operations and IT systems for a pharmaceutical wholesaler. Here he explains the ways in which the industry can overcome the challenges of the future.
productCentralised automated warehouse
With over 2500 products in its portfolio, both food and non-food items, Norway’s leading grocery wholesaler, UNIL, identified a need for a more cost-efficient automated solution.
productMeeting pharma challenges
With the pharmaceutical industry facing enormous changes, Swisslog’s Michiel Veenman identifies ways in which the industry can overcome the challenges of the future.
productDream Factory expanded
Cimcorp’s revamped automation system offers an end-to-end tyre plant solution – from goods-in to finished tyre loading.
articleSwisslog provides centralised automated warehouse for grocery wholesaler
Norgesgruppen is Norway’s leading grocery wholesaler with 1,750 stores and 850 service trade customers.
productInterlocks get networked
Industrial safety specialist Fortress Interlocks is integrating AS-interface (AS-i) and PROFIsafe (PROFIbus Safety or PROFInet Safety) connectivity into its tGard and amGardpro interlocks. The company is also developing non-contact switches and output signal switching devices which can be incorporated into its tGard and amGardpro units.
articleWarehousing dynamics shift as eCommerce kicks in
A leading think tank has recommended owners and occupiers future proof their warehouses in the face of massive market disruption from eCommerce.
productWireless remote switch
The standard transmitter unit supplied with WERMA’s WIN wireless monitoring system transmits the status change in the Andon light to the WIN software, allowing users to collect machine or workstation performance data. Now the new “Slave Control” receiver unit offers a ‘command’ function for the first time.
productComponent transfer
UPM conveyors has designed, installed and commissioned a fully automated product handling system for Lindal Group in Mexico to transfer injection moulded components to assembly hoppers located on GIMA machines for production of aerosols.
articleSwisslog wins major food sector order
Saudi Arabian food producer Almarai has commissioned Swisslog to automate its distribution logistics for its operations in Al Kharj.
product3D software investment
A greater variety of applications for conveyors and the need for increased speed have driven change in the marketplace. In addition, PLCs now control systems that may incorporate product separation, centralising, orientation and merging or metal detection and weighting.
productOff-the-shelf AGV
The E’gv Compact from Egemin Automation is a compact yet robust new AGV designed to handle standard-sized loads at higher capacities than the AGCs (Automatic Guided Carts) currently available on the market. Egemin sees the unit as an add-on to its existing high-grade E’gv product line vehicles that are customised for specific applications.
productCouzens customers to benefit from manufacturing investment
Couzens Storage Solutions’ equipment supplier is building on its success in the USA. Systems Logistics, manufacturer of Modula Vertical Lift storage and retrieval systems, has opened a new factory in Lewistown, Maine.
articleSkyscraper warehouses if online retail boom continues
Future of retail will include super ports and showrooming as well as massive demand for warehouse space.
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