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PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: The Robotics Group
Content was pulled from MHI Solutions Magazine Q2.2019 MHI has a new Industry Group, The Robotics Group, focusing on broader applications of robotics—whether it’s arms or vehicles—within the fulfillment process to ease workforce availability problems. “Material handling operators across the […]
How AGV Systems Improve Safety at Material Handling Facilities
Content was pulled from MHI Solutions Magazine Q2.2019 An automatic guided vehicle (AGV) system consists of one or more computer controlled wheel-based load carriers. Typically battery powered, these systems operate on plant or warehouse floors or on paved areas outdoors […]
Material Handling… for Rocket Launch Pads!
By Alex Batty, MHI Marketing Communications Coordinator | @mhi_alex I get news alerts from BBC Science Focus Magazine (…shocker) and while the alerts most often pose questions like a 5-year-old asking why to everything, my inner child also wants to know […]
Why Pallet Flow Systems Are Designed For Specific Pallets And Loads
by MHI Industry Group, RMI (Rack Manufacturing Institute) The vast majority of industrial steel storage rack systems—including pallet flow (or “gravity flow”) rack—are engineered specifically for a single storage purpose. Likewise, when designing a high-density pallet flow system, there are […]
New Video on MHI View: The Emerging Risks of Blockchain Technology
As part of MHI’s ongoing video program, this new episode focuses on: Imagining the Future of the Supply Chain. The amount of time, energy and computational costs necessary to break modern encryption, especially blockchain, is an essentially futile exercise. But another […]
Humans + Machines = Exponential Improvements
Content was pulled from MHI Solutions Magazine Q2.2019 When MHI member Vecna Robotics first went to a FedEx facility to introduce its robots there, a worker reacted less than enthusiastically to the arrival of the new technology. The man approached […]