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The labor market is changing. How can robotics help?

The labor market is changing, but even more dramatically in the logistics industry. Qualified labor is getting harder to find, while a significant percentage of the existing workforce — baby boomers — will be leaving the workforce over the next 10 to 15 years. For the first time, there is an inversion in the marketplace, meaning that there are now more jobs available than people available to fill them across the entire economy and particularly in this industry.

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Are you looking into adding more office space to your facility?

Is your office too small to keep up with your company's rapidly growing operations and space requirements? If you're thinking about expanding your office or relocating it, you should consider a modular office system.

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Robotic Small Item Sorting

Designed and manufactured by OPEX® Corporation, Sure Sort is a robotic item sorter that easily handles complex variables and delivers a wide variety of parcels and single items to their final location in a single pass. Sure Sort's compact array of sort locations can be scaled, sized, and customized as well.

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Could automation be the cure for your distribution center woes?

Do you ever find yourself agonizing over your current processes and thinking, "Sure, automation sounds great, but how will I know when I should consider it for my DC?"  

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Now is the time to prepare for your peak season!

Is it too early to start thinking about filling orders for your peak season? Probably not! Even if everything went well the last go around, you've likely already spent some time looking at your fulfillment processes to identify potential improvements. But what about your material handling equipment?

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Let a Robot Do the Lifting

When you've got a 60-pound box of books, manually moving that from the line to the middle of a fresh pallet isn't the most fun of jobs. Once they've dropped the box onto the pallet, workers are probably pulling a face as they try to straighten up. So you may be considering robotic palletizing to keep them happy (and you out of trouble).

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A Siggins eWMS Success Story

Click here for more information.From their early days in the 1920s when they combined porcelain enameling, pigments and modern manufacturing methods, to current operations where they continue to innovate and create new coatings and colors, Ferro has a long history of finding new ways to improve performance.

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