AI Route Optimization Saves Money, Cuts Fuel Consumption and Provides Faster Delivery Times
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Amazon, which pioneered same-day delivery, uses an AI system that requires digesting a huge amount of data to determine the best routes to avoid traffic and get the driver to your home in the fastest possible time.
Mastering peak season with robotics & automation
This year, continued economic uncertainty and geopolitical disruption are once again complicating peak season planning, compounded by the ongoing industry-wide labor shortage which makes it harder to scale the workforce fast enough to meet demand.
The Role of Automation in Supply Chain Resilience
While automation offers significant benefits for enhancing supply chain resilience, it also comes with challenges and considerations that businesses must address to ensure successful implementation.
Shop Floor Scheduling: Are You Getting the Most out of Your Plant's Production Capacity?
By leveraging modern production scheduling tools, you can ensure your operations are not only efficient but also adaptable to the dynamic demands of the industry.
What role does automation play in the manufacturing supply chain?
Adrian Wood, Strategic Business Development Director at DELMIA, gives us some very informative and interesting insights into automation's integral role in the manufacturing supply chain.
AI-Powered Kindred INDUCT Automates Induction of One Million Items with 95% Accuracy
An INDUCT workcell was incorporated into an existing induction line at a global logistics facility and transportation hub where 200,000 small parcels are sorted each hour, and up to 400,000 parcels are processed during the peak holiday season.
5 Transportation Solutions for Fragile Robots
Businesses may need to move robots for one of many reasons. They could move to a new facility, place some robots in storage during slow seasons or have to move newly purchased machines themselves.
Automation Is a Game Changer for Supply Chains
That's not to say the entire supply chain, from end to end, will be automated in full. There will always be people involved in its operations. However, some degree of automation is essential to keeping things moving.
Berkshire Grey and FedEx Expand Their Robotic Automation Solutions Relationship
The new product development agreement is an expansion of this collaboration and offers new opportunities for the two companies to work together to further increase efficiencies across the FedEx enterprise using AI-enabled robotic automation.
AGV Selection Process for 2022 Must Start with Delivery Commitment Guarantee
Throughout industrial manufacturing, distribution, and logistics the lead time from many AGV manufacturers is more than a year. That means product ordered in Q1 2022 will not be delivered until the following year.
2021 Top Article - Sustainable Supply Chains in the Era of Industry 4.0
Because supply chains consume resources on a large scale, they are responsible for a disproportionately large share of the world's carbon emissions.
How Commercial Robotics Could Improve the Inventory and Shipping Crisis of 2021
Supply chains have been disrupting virtually every industry from top to bottom. Numerous factors are contributing to the issue, so finding a solution that can mitigate the strain on the supply chain is challenging.
5 MIR1000 Robots Automates the Internal Transportation of Heavy Loads at Florisa
Five autonomous mobile robots (AMR) MiR1000 have improved productivity, safety and eliminated storage problems within the Florisa plant, a company that operates in the textile segment, with production focused on the dyeing of natural and artificial fibers.
Supplychainbrain: Out With Conveyors, in With Autonomous Mobile Robots
You can't totally count conveyors out, because they'll always have a place. But the truth is, robots are here, and AMRs are changing warehouse operations. While conveyors are effective, their capabilities are also limited.
How AI is Changing the Future of Supply Chain Costs
AI brings efficiency through big data analytics and performance insights on an unprecedented scale. With this power, AI is advancing supply chains for a cleaner, more cost-effective future. Preparing for this future starts with understanding AI implementation in the present.
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