Storage Manufacturers Work to Integrate with New Innovations
Article from MHI Solutions Magazine
Autonomous mobile robots in distribution facilities are “the future”—and members of MHI’s Storage Manufacturers Association (SMA) are working to make their products compatible with this emerging technology.
SMA members are the industry’s leading suppliers of industrial storage equipment. They supply storage solutions worldwide and in virtually every major manufacturing and distribution sector.
Industrial storage equipment includes steel shelving, industrial work platforms, work and assembly stations, modular drawer equipment, clothing storage lockers, movable base storage equipment, storage containers and directly related equipment.
Warehouses are made up of storage racks, shelving and different components that create vertical space within an environment and equipment that’s used to gain access to these different components, said Bruce Marks, vice president of enterprise sales at MHI member Western Pacific Storage Solutions. Typically, order pickers or forklifts grab the product off the rack and bring it over to the shipping area, then to a truck…
