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10 July 2025
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ROBOTS ARE giving growing e-commerce businesses the opportunity to sort orders in a highly efficient and scalable manner.
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10 June 2025
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Dave Sutton looks at how adopting an open platform can help bridge the gap between legacy assets and cutting-edge robotics in the logistics sector
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14 May 2025
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OVER THE last few years, the logistics sector has seen rapid growth, driven mainly by the boom in e-commerce, and customers are expecting faster and more reliable deliveries. The ‘last mile’ of a package’s journey centres around the fulfillment facility that collects and sorts it into the correct bin for delivery. Historically a manual operation, parcel sorting is increasingly becoming more automated, enabling logistics businesses to improve productivity and efficiency.
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11 March 2025
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Increasingly, the food industry relies on efficient and precise material handling solutions to maintain productivity, quality, and safety. Steve Hughes reports
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11 November 2024
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OVER THE past five decades, Nidec Drives' UK manufacturing facilities have undergone significant expansion and transformation. To maintain quality standards while continuing to serve customers, employees, and stakeholders efficiently, a new solution was required to tackle a critical challenge. Sue Clark reports
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11 September 2024
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WITH THE growing shortage of skilled workers increasing pressure on industrial companies to automate processes, flexible, cost-effective and easy-to-implement robotics solutions such as autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robots are in demand. Mobile manipulators connect both robot systems, but often cannot be used economically due to insufficient battery power. The solution: Wiferion's Wireless Power Kit, which enables inductive charging for both systems simultaneously.
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04 October 2024
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SPECIFYING LTO battery cell chemistry can be vital to boosting performance of mobile industrial robots, reports Owen McNally
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03 July 2024
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Intelligent energy management, or the optimisation of energy use within an organisation, can help identify feasible ways to decarbonise operations, as Sam Tilley asserts
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14 June 2024
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When Mercedes-Benz wanted to expand its AGV installation, automotive manufacturer called upon HMS to provide the wireless expertise, products, and hands on support to ensure the AGVs moved efficiently and safely around the factory
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14 May 2024
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Over time, robots are certain to become a more common sight at home, in pedestrian areas, on the roads, and in workplaces like factories, warehouses, and farms. With this in mind, Mark Patrick takes a look at building location-aware robots to operate in unstructured environments
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18 April 2024
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From circuit board assembly to healthcare applications, the ability of cobots to co-exist safely with humans on the same fenceless factory floor comes with its own stringent safety requirements. Fabrizio Petris explores the sensing technologies enabling such applications
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19 February 2024
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To streamline how parcels arrive on the doorstep, many businesses rely on localised or temporary facilities. For smaller sorting centres close to the customer, robots can help optimise routes, maximise capacity and reduce overheads. Hans Jongebloed explores the possibilities
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11 October 2023
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Dirk Van Lammeren explains why automation is becoming an established method for retaining existing staff and attracting new hires in the warehouse sector
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16 August 2023
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Sustainability doesn’t have to come at a cost, in fact many companies are finding that their environmental initiatives are saving them money. Ian Manning looks at opportunities to be found in supply chain management applications
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18 January 2023
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WITHIN MANUFACTURING the use of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) is maturing in ways that help to improve competitiveness, whilst adding enhanced resilience and flexibility to operations, asserts Paul Rivers
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05 December 2022
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THE ROLE of traceability in providing information for improving processes as well as helping to protects brand is gaining in importance. Against this background Omron leverages its vast experience in track, trace and control to help manufacturers build robust systems, as Stuart Coulton reports
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28 July 2022
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In addition to bringing benefits in terms of increased productivity and more efficient use of space, deploying automation in the warehouse can even help alleviate issues caused by staff shortages. Charlotte Stonestreet highlights some of the latest technologies on hand to help
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19 July 2022
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WITHIN THE space of just three years, Coca-Cola in Germany has invested around 50 million Euros in one of its biggest plants in Mannheim. KHS has contributed a returnable glass line to the project – one that also manages highly complex sorting tasks
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10 January 2022
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WAREHOUSE AUTOMATION is enabling PHOENIX Healthcare Distribution to fulfil patients' repeat prescription orders efficiently and securely from its facility in Runcorn, Cheshire. The company is using the Pack2Patient automated logistics solution developed and delivered by KNAPP, which enables single items to be processed rapidly, cost-effectively and with end-to-end traceability.
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10 July 2020
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In the first application for Hikrobot in the UK, global fashion brand, Superdry, is leveraging the flexibility of intelligent mini-robot carriers to transform order picking and put-away at its UK hub – just part of a phased roll-out of goods-to-person robotics that will boost productivity across its international network of multi-channel fulfilment centres.
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