December 3, 2020
5 Questions Answered: Automation in Automotive ...
Boom-and-bust cycles are not uncommon in the automotive sector. However, the COVID-19 pandemic left even the automotive industry shocked by the extreme levels of fluctuation. The United States automotive industry went from facing facility shutdowns ...
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November 24, 2020
Automotive: How to Use Automation to Keep ...
The automotive industry in the United States has been in constant flux due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Over the course of the second quarter in 2020, the pandemic caused many automotive companies to virtually shut down. With consumers facing very ...
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October 6, 2020
Seegrid Acquires Box Robotics: Q&A with Jim Rock, ...
Today, Seegrid announced the strategic acquisition of Box Robotics, a mobile robotics startup, to accelerate the development of human-like situational awareness for self-driving industrial vehicles. We sat down with Seegrid CEO Jim Rock to talk ...
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Seegrid Technology
September 24, 2020
VGV Safety is in the Driver's Seat
The future is speeding toward us as the adoption of automation and robotics continues to rise — businesses in virtually every industry seek to manage fluctuations in demand and workforce. The ability to tackle the problem effectively and safely with ...
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AGV Safety
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Seegrid Technology
July 21, 2020
Optimize for Operational Efficiency with AGV Data
Learn How to Deliver Data that Drives Results Consumers want products faster, better, and at low cost, driving the material handling sector to become more competitive. Because of this, forward-thinking companies are seeking ways to implement ...
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Industry 4.0
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Advanced Analytics
June 9, 2020
Productivity and Safety: Achieve Both Goals ...
Hard-working industrial vehicles are critical to moving and placing materials in a variety of challenging environments. However, with traditional, manually-driven powered industrial trucks (PIT) being prone to accidents and injuries, facilities are ...
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AGV Safety
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Seegrid Technology
May 19, 2020
3 Pillars to Achieve Data Goals for AGVs and ...
No matter the industry or business segment, companies around the globe are collecting enormous amounts of information about everything. There seems to be no end to the streams of available data, and with information flooding in at ever-accelerating ...
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Advanced Analytics
April 20, 2020
COVID-19 Supply Chain Impacts: Taming the ...
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic began a wave of panic buying and stockpiling, as many consumers want to make sure there are no shortages of essential items in their homes. Whether it's toilet paper, hand sanitizer, cleaning products, or ...
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Material Flow
March 12, 2020
MODEX 2020 Wrap-Up
Manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics companies around the world leverage Seegrid smart automation, including our self-driving, vision guided vehicles, fleet management software, and actionable analytics platforms. MODEX provides a one-of-a-kind ...
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December 17, 2019
Ramp Up for a Holiday Shutdown
Traditionally, manufacturing plants have halted operations and utilized the slow week between Christmas and New Year’s to perform much-needed maintenance and repairs on facility equipment. Any amount of downtime can be extremely costly for an ...
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November 25, 2019
Top Tips to Tackle Peak Demand with Automation
How Automated Guided Vehicles can Increase Productivity With retailer events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, holiday shopping has taken a large shift to the online space. According to Adobe Analytics, in 2019, online shoppers in the U.S. are ...
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August 6, 2019
Train One AGV, Train Them All
Seegrid Vision Technology Eliminates Downtime for Training (and Re-training) Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) Planning for Growth with AGVs When selecting an automation vendor for material movement, it’s important to consider not only your current ...
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December 12, 2018
Adapting to Automation: Lessons for Long-Term ...
This article was originally published in SupplyChainBrain. What’s the top next-gen technology that’s on strategic agendas across executive war rooms? The answer is automation and robotics, according to a recent survey of more than 800 financial ...
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December 11, 2018
How Employers and Employees Can Adapt to an ...
This article was originally published in InformationWeek. Despite the fact that suppliers who are adopting automation technologies have the potential to reap substantial cost savings and increase profitability, some fear that the proliferation of ...
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AGV Safety
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Industry 4.0
December 8, 2018
Advance Your Materials Handling Operations with ...
This article was originally published in IndustryWeek. As manufacturers and distributors undertake new automation initiatives and push toward Industry 4.0 - the fourth industrial revolution - they have access to an unprecedented amount of data. The ...
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Industry 4.0
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Advanced Analytics
November 7, 2018
Seegrid Supervisor: Your Key to the Smart Factory ...
As an integral part of the Seegrid Smart Platform, Supervisor fleet management software is the key to your smart factory. With real time dispatching, vehicle status updates, and object interactions, Supervisor software was designed to keep your ...
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Material Flow
Industry 4.0
Seegrid Technology
October 17, 2018
Don't Get Beaten by a Robot: 3 Ways to Ensure ...
This article was originally published in Entrepreneur. A common thread in conversations about automation is the uncertainty people feel about their long-term job security. Despite (or perhaps because of) automation’s impressive ability to streamline ...
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Future of Automation
Industry 4.0
October 8, 2018
Eliminating Product Damage with AGV Technologies
Moving heavy materials throughout your supply chain all day, every day–accounting for labor shortages, peak season, and the potential of damaged goods–is no easy task. Even with the most skilled human labor, accidents can happen while picking and ...
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AGV Safety
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Warehousing
July 17, 2018
What Automation Means for the Human Workforce
This article was originally published in Business 2 Community. The advent of automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning is perhaps one of the biggest disruptions that the manufacturing industry has encountered. These technologies ...
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Future of Automation
Industry 4.0
May 16, 2018
4 Benefits Robots Bring to the Workforce
This article was originally published in Business 2 Community. Last month, an annual gathering of top manufacturing experts took place at MODEX, one of the world’s largest conferences for manufacturing and supply chain solutions. This year’s theme ...
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Industry 4.0
September 5, 2017
Lean Manufacturing: Eliminate the 7 Wastes With ...
More Optimization, Less Waste We live in an age when many aspects of our lives are continuously optimized and improved upon. We call up transportation at the touch of an app. Instead of waiting at a doctor’s office, we opt for medical consultations ...
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June 21, 2017
5 Steps on Your Journey Toward Industry 4.0
Introducing new technology can be disruptive: upending the status quo is always challenging for businesses and their employees. For manufacturers, though, the idea of the smart factory of the future is quickly becoming a reality, and even those ...
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Manufacturing
Industry 4.0
May 19, 2017
Productivity Boosts at Zulily With Seegrid's ...
Companies in manufacturing and warehousing today are turning to automatic guided vehicle solutions (AGVs) for their material movement needs. Accuracy, efficiency, and performance all factor into choosing the right AGV to meet your facility needs, ...
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Ecommerce
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May 17, 2017
Industry 4.0: Taking a Look into the Past, ...
The introduction of new technology can be disruptive: change is challenging for businesses and their employees. But the smart factory of the future is quickly becoming a reality, and even those hesitant to embrace these advancements are finding it ...
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Manufacturing
Industry 4.0
November 21, 2016
Disruption Ahead: Automotive Manufacturers Look ...
After a banner year in 2015—with over 17.5 million vehicles sold in the U.S., according to the Wall Street Journal—the automotive industry is poised to continue this pattern of growth through 2016 and beyond. That doesn’t mean the industry is ...
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Manufacturing
Industry 4.0
October 28, 2016
The Link Between AGVs and Labor Cost Reductions
For most companies, improving their bottom line is critical to success. When looking at the bigger picture, labor costs, operating costs, efficiency, and workflow processes are all aspects that play into a company’s overall progress. When ...
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Benefits of Automation
September 29, 2016
Seegrid Vision Guided AGVs Provide Warehouse ...
For many companies, the costs associated with manual material handling can make a huge impact to the bottom line. In recent years, automation advancements have driven a change in the market, becoming a go to solution for companies looking to ...
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Warehousing
Material Flow
September 29, 2016
Why Whirlpool Sees Seegrid as the Evolution in ...
Manufacturers across the U.S. are experiencing a damaging shortage of skilled labor — negatively impacting their ability to produce goods and their bottom lines. As companies search for automated solutions, Seegrid’s vision-powered AGVs are leading ...
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Manufacturing
Ecommerce
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July 14, 2016
18 Questions to Ask Your AGV Vendor: Part 2
Check out Part 1. With so many AGV solutions on the market, it can be difficult to tell which AGV is right for your application and facility. Before investing in automation, ask your AGV vendor these important questions about install times, safety ...
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July 13, 2016
Improving Safety in Manufacturing Through Seegrid ...
More than 34,000 serious injuries occur each year from forklifts.1 At Seegrid, we have taken the initiative to decrease that number. When we develop our products, safety in the workplace is a top priority. By emphasizing the importance of safety, ...
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Seegrid Technology
June 22, 2016
18 Questions to Ask Your AGV Vendor: Part 1
Manufacturers are increasingly turning to automation to solve their materials handling challenges. But as many are realizing, not all AGV companies are alike. The various AGV solutions on the market have vastly different degrees of flexibility, ...
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June 17, 2016
How AGVs Cut Through Waste to Increase Throughput
Seegrid’s vision-powered automated guided vehicles (AGVs) do exactly what we train them to do—on time, every time, any time, day or night. Our AGVs, also known as Vision Guided Vehicles (VGV), bring revolutionary technology to the manufacturing ...
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May 25, 2016
IIoT: The Next Frontier in Manufacturing
Machines on the plant floor will soon actively identify problems, determine a course of action, execute, and measure those results—all without human interaction. It's not the Jetsons—it's the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and it's already ...
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Industry 4.0
May 11, 2016
Aerospace Manufacturing: A Need to Innovate, But ...
Like many industries, the aerospace and defense (A&D) sector is facing increased pressure to continuously innovate and increase productivity, while also reducing labor and operating costs. Achieving all these targets requires a large, specialized ...
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December 29, 2015
Vision Makes the Difference in Autonomous Robots
As we approach the new year, developments in the robotics industry are promising. In 2015, we saw robots emerge in manufacturing and distribution facilities worldwide, as automated vehicles have proven to be a safer and more efficient, decreasing ...
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Seegrid Technology
July 16, 2015
Myth Busting: Greater Manufacturing Automation ...
Myth: A myth is an "idea or story that is believed by many but is not true." So why is it, then, that we're quick to assume that ideas without any factual basis are, in fact, true? Perhaps it's because opinions tend to spread like wildfire. In the ...
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May 13, 2015
3 Key Ways Automation Reduces Safety and ...
With an aging workforce, injuries are expected to increase in the labor force. Therefore, leveraging technology to automate difficult or repetitive tasks will positively impact concerns over safety and ergonomic issues, and other labor challenges ...
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April 16, 2015
The Benefits of Automated Fork Trucks
Many material handling warehouse activities these days are being automated, partly due to technology advances and partly due to the very competitive nature of business. Picking, packing, shipping, cross-docking—automation is seemingly taking over ...
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Seegrid Technology
April 10, 2015
The Benefit of AGV Safety Standards
Seegrid’s vision-powered automated guided vehicles (AGVs) safely and reliably operate in manufacturing and distribution facilities every day. These vehicles can reduce costs, boost efficiency, and improve safety within your operation. Keeping safety ...
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Seegrid Technology
March 11, 2015
Flexible Automation For a Dynamic Manufacturing ...
In a dynamic production environment, as companies continue to experience an increase in manufacturing complexities, there is typically an increase in labor resources as well. For operations managers, it becomes a balancing act to manage the ...
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Seegrid Technology
October 22, 2014
Three Key Advantages of Mother Daughter Carts and ...
Through the years, the use of mother-daughter cart solutions in conjunction with vision guided vehicles (VGVs) has become more widely recognized, and for many applications is considered to be a Lean best practice. While many users documenting the ...
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Seegrid Technology
September 17, 2014
Customers Leading the Way: Lean and Flexible ...
Lean manufacturing or lean production, as we know, is not a new approach for implementing efficient manufacturing processes. Lean is a well-known philosophy and has been part of manufacturing methods since the 1990s, but as customers increase the ...
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July 2, 2014
Forklift-Free: Automated Tugger Solutions With ...
In the final part of the two part blog series on forklift-free driving safety, we cover the consequential costs associated with forklift labor, and the benefits that result from implementing driverless automated tugger solutions safer alternative. ...
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June 25, 2014
Forklift Free: Driving Safety and Efficiency
In part one of the two part series of this blog, we cover forklift dangers being inherently dangerous vehicles, as approximately every three days, someone in the U.S. is killed in a forklift related accident. Even with safety regulations for the ...
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Benefits of Automation
February 20, 2014
Automation in the Workplace: Best Practices for ...
Workplace automation can transform your business by reducing errors, increasing efficiency, and cutting costs. In fact, while the cost of manual labor has dramatically increased in recent years, automation equipment, including robotics, conveyors, ...
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AGV Safety
February 5, 2014
Improve Forklift Battery Best Practices in 9 Easy ...
Prior to Seegrid, Weiss worked for Brooks Automation as the chief technology officer. Weiss came to Brooks after the strategic merger of Brooks with PRI Automation. At PRI, he served as chief technology officer and vice president of ...
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September 16, 2011
Improve Efficiency with Vision Guided AGVs
When companies look to improve efficiency, automation and industry 4.0 initiatives have become the roadmap to success. Implementing technology like Seegrid’s vision-powered automated guided vehicles (AGVs) can improve efficiency by transporting ...
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