July 29, 2021
Automation in the Workplace: 3 Best Practices for ...
Automation in the workplace is now accessible to material handling facilities of all types and sizes. With shrinking labor pools, constantly evolving customer behaviors, and heightened expectations and demands, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), ...
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July 28, 2021
Leveraging Automation to Keep Up with Increased ...
Peak season is no longer on a set schedule, spanning a few predictable months out of the year—such as a holiday season—where retailers would gear up for an increase in demand, and then evaluate how to improve for the next round to meet performance ...
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July 22, 2021
3 Advantages of Creating an Empowered Team of ...
Let’s face it—change is hard. As creatures of habit, we take comfort in the routine. Change can quickly jolt us from our comfort zone, manifesting uncertainty that can derail positive momentum. However, when embraced correctly, change can propel ...
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July 15, 2021
What Is Lean Manufacturing? How to Streamline ...
Lean manufacturing is not a new term in the industry—lean methodology has been around since the 1990s, and it has roots dating back to early 1900s automobile production, with Ford’s assembly line and the Toyota Production System. But as consumers ...
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June 24, 2021
Understanding AMR Technologies: Computer Vision ...
Humans working collaboratively alongside self-driving robots is here, and an advanced future of intelligent automation is not only imaginable but compelling. Today, global leading brands in manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics rely on material ...
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June 10, 2021
Forklift-Free: The Benefits of AMRs Go Well ...
In the final segment of this two-part blog series on safety driving forklift-free initiatives, we uncover the consequential costs associated with manual forklift labor and the benefits resulting from implementing driverless autonomous mobile robots ...
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June 8, 2021
Forklift-Free: Driving Safety and Efficiency
In part one of this two-part blog series, we cover manually driven forklifts, otherwise known as powered industrial trucks, and the inherent dangers that these vehicles pose. Despite ever-present safety regulations in the workplace, forklift ...
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June 1, 2021
The 4 Drivers of Industry 4.0 & How They Will ...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution — also known as Industry 4.0 — is upon us. It was inspired by the same drivers as the First Industrial Revolution in the 18th century: reducing costs and boosting efficiency. Now, instead of looms and steam engines, ...
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Industry 4.0
Advanced Analytics
May 20, 2021
Power Your Facility and Drive Results Using AMR ...
Material handling automation can create immediate benefits for a company, including safer work environments, improved employee retention, boosted productivity levels, decreased travel times, reduced operating costs, and increased agility. However, ...
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May 18, 2021
3 Reasons Why You Should Automate Forklift ...
Technology and automation are the keys to a safer, more productive, and more cost-efficient warehouse. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and autonomous forklifts have proven to be safe, reliable, and consistent. Increasingly, more companies are ...
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Warehousing
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May 6, 2021
3 Warehouse Automation & Safety Tips
With an aging workforce, growing labor shortages, and extreme demands, warehouse safety is more important than ever to prevent injuries and avoid downtime. Nearly 95 million people miss work each year as a result of workplace injury, with ...
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Warehousing
April 29, 2021
Top 3 Trends to Watch for Supply Chains
Over the course of the past year, and continuing still today, it’s been made abundantly clear that supply chains need to be resilient in order to effectively and successfully support customers. In 2020, many manufacturing, logistics, e-commerce, and ...
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Material Flow
Industry 4.0
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April 22, 2021
ProMatDX 2021 Event Wrap-Up: Innovating Supply ...
ProMat is one of the largest industry events for manufacturing and supply chain professionals, providing individuals from the U.S. and over 140 countries access to the latest material handling solutions. Though this year looked different by ...
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March 23, 2021
Winds of Change in Consumer Goods Manufacturing
Think back to January 2020— life looked a little different. The global pandemic has had a profound impact on just about everything we do, forcing changes in how we work, play, communicate, and really, how we live. Our recent blog on consumer goods ...
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January 28, 2021
Increase Your ROI: How to Effectively Plan and ...
The ongoing pandemic and recession continue to present a seemingly endless stream of challenges for automotive manufacturers. Everything from shifting consumer preferences and unpredictable supply shortages to higher-than-normal-worker absence rates ...
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Manufacturing
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December 14, 2020
2020: The Perfect Storm & Lessons Learned in the ...
To say 2020 was a year like no other is an understatement. The global pandemic changed the way we live, from how we work to how we shop, and everything in between. In the consumer goods space, the pandemic rewrote the script for forecasting demand. ...
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Manufacturing
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Consumer Durable Goods
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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Manufacturing
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November 12, 2020
Operational Agility: How to Adapt with AMRs and ...
A year that brought on unpredictability and uncertainty like never before put a spotlight on the use of automation in manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics facilities. The COVID-19 pandemic quickly caused many unexpected disruptions that shook ...
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Advanced Analytics
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
AMR 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 AMR 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 AMRs 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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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
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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September 3, 2019
Train One AMR, Train Them All
Seegrid Vision Technology Eliminates Downtime for Training (and Retraining) Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) Planning for Growth with AMRs 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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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