A Belgian food retailer has increased its investment in automation with the roll out of further Witron tote handling solutions.

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To help clients optimise their storage space, Weland Solutions is open to adapt vertical storage lifts to meet specific needs.

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We all have an image in our head of what happens behind the doors of a typical warehouse. Lots of people handling boxes, forklift trucks buzzing about and a cacophony of noise. Then you step inside the Digital Distribution Centre of the Future - a new $77 million facility at the SEGRO East Midlands Gateway, near Castle Donington.

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Britvic is a renowned soft drinks business with a turnover in the region of £1.5 billion and when it unveiled a £240m investment programme to transform its production and supply chain in the UK, it presented an opportunity to Mark Young, site operations manager of its facility in Leeds.

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Bilstein group has been operating a 19,000 square metre distribution centre in Markham Vale supplying the UK market since 2018.

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Materials handling specialist, Axiom GB, has installed two automated solutions into Kuehne + Nagel’s facility for the company’s BT contract with the mobile network operator, EE.

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ABB and Silicon Valley AI start-up Covariant have announced a partnership to bring AI-enabled robotics solutions to market, starting with a fully autonomous warehouse order fulfilment solution.

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Results from the Global Robotics Report 2019 identified that 79 per cent of automation distributors do not believe their customers understand the safety requirements of installing a collaborative robot.

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Dematic has expanded its Micro-Fulfillment solution for general merchandise and apparel industries to help retailers address rising consumer demand for rapid eCommerce order fulfillment and delivery.

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Ubimax offers FastTrack Vision Picking, a vision picking template that is configured and ready for productive use in the warehouse in less than an hour.

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Ocado’s losses grew almost 400% from £44 million in 2018 to £214.5m in 2019, mainly due to asset write-offs and other costs associated with a fire that destroyed its Andover fulfilment centre in February 2019.

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The 79,000 square metre, highly automated distribution centre will be built at Omega Park, Warrington and is expected to operational by mid-2023.

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Huge growth in eCommerce and an exponential increase in item picks has tempted many retailers to invest in automation in a bid to keep up.

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The e-grocery challenge and how to adapt.

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Smart warehouses powered by robots and AI systems from Geek+ processed a record 8 million orders in 72 hours during China’s Singles Day event in November.

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Inther has launched a gripping system for automated order picking.

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The RARUK Automation MiR autonomous mobile robot (AMR) has been extended with the addition of the MiR Shelf Lift.

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AMH Material Handling increases eCommerce throughput for Selfridges & Co at DHL facility.

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The SmartSight with EMA50 mobile automation system is a subscription-based robotic solution designed to improve front-of-store retail operations.

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The 100,000 sq m highly automated logistics centre will be the largest yet carried out by automation specialist Witron.

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The system is a unique and innovative intelligent monitoring and call-for-action system.

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As with all Sovex products; roller conveyor systems can be fixed or mobile. They can be lineshaft powered, belt driven or by 24 VDC powered rollers. All three types are designed to integrate seamlessly, with side profile and guiding matching up perfectly to safeguard against product hangups. Sovex’s in-house controls department offers full turnkey solutions.

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The economic solution to an ergonomic problem

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The standard TXP system is designed for internal combustion engine forklifts with an electrically selectable fluid transmission. The system will stop operators from changing gears whilst the engine revs are too high or the road speed is too fast.

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The speed limiter is a very comprehensive and highly reliable product. The system hard ware is produced by Siemens VDO and has been fitted to over 1,000,000 vehicles worldwide.

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The innovative Tool – Mover is one of RUD’s latest innovations, a manipulation device for the safe turning and tilting of heavy and awkward plant items such as plastic injection moulding tools.

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A industrial range of components including, handwheels, handles, levers, knobs, spring and indexing plungers, leveling feet, locks and latches and hydraulic tank accessories in engineering grade plastics, aluminium, steel and stainless steel

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Forklift truck and human interaction is one of the biggest hazards in the workplace today, in many businesses there is no way of avoiding this, that is why Fork Truck Control have developed a range of products to assist operators in reversing heavy plant equipment safely.

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We provide fully-integrated, complete warehouse solutions. The SEC Storage Systems Division understands that warehouses now play a pivotal role in the logistics industry and are a key component of your competitive advantage, enabling you to offer outstanding customer service by servitising the products you sell.

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Daifuku’s sliding-shoe sorter, named the Jet Surfing Sorter, is a high-speed automated sortation system for channeling and sorting medium size items, totes, and cartons.

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The FM Stand Alone Check System is a new and exciting addition to FTC’s already extensive product range. The system aims to provide a cost effective solution to completely replace paper based pre use check lists on any type of materials handling equipment.

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FTC have developed a range of camera systems to act as a security system and/or as a driver aid. Manoeuvring plant equipment safely can be difficult at times and an FTC camera system with in cab driver display offers the driver additional views to assist.

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Southampton based Import Services Limited are specialists in Retail Supply Chain Logistics. Their new DC, in the heart of Southampton container port, boasts an impressive 170,000 square feet with storage facilities for 20,000 pallets, utilising custom-built racking. To maximise their efficiency, they needed reliable, specially designed inbound conveyors to speed-up the unloading process of loose loaded cartons from 40-foot sea containers.

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Sovex Mobile Vehicle Loaders offer the benefits of a Sovex Fixed Vehicle Loader with the added flexibility to serve more than one door whilst using a mobile vehicle loader to transfer from ground level to working height inside the vehicle.

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The system, simple to retrofit to existing FIFO flow racking, solves many typical Kanban issues, increases significantly the floor space for value adding activities and increases cash flow.

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