RFID and IT

Advanced vehicle routing technology from Navman Wireless has helped a waste management company to scoop one of the UK's leading sales awards – and improve productivity by 28%. Designed to showcase best practice in the professional sales industry, the National Sales Awards Programme presented Neales Waste Management with the prestigious …

Parkstein, Gardena, Europe's leading manufacturer of gardening equipment and tools awarded the system integrator Witron, Germany, the contract for the project planning and realization as general contractor of an automated warehouse and picking solution. In Ulm, Germany, Witron will integrate a highly dynamic system for articles to be picked in …

Winners and finalists inspire at Awards 2006. Ten more names have been etched gloriously into materials handling history as winners in the latest Fork Lift Truck Association Annual Awards for Excellence. But while nothing can compare with the prestige of actually winning an Award, the organisers have been keener than …

At the beginning of 2004 leading retailer Woolworths undertook a major review of its materials handling fleet, inviting tenders from the UK's leading lift truck providers. Ultimately, Woolworths chose Barloworld Handling as its materials handling partner. Woolworths is one of the UK's largest and best-known retailers, focusing on the home, …

System 3R UK – Stand No: 5291 Hall:5 The new WorkPal Compact Servo robot will be put through its paces for the first time in the UK at this year's MACH exhibition. This machine is the latest addition to System 3R's impressive range of automation robots that are focused on …

A scheme to electronically tag one of the basic tools of all manufacturers – the metal cages (stillages) used to transport components could save those manufacturers millions of pounds in lost equipment and lost production by ending the widespread stillage “disappearance” problem. Manufacturers rely on hundreds of thousands of relatively …

At MACH 2006, IAS Industore will be exhibiting Hänel's automated storage systems that have revolutionised warehousing and materials handling across the manufacturing, engineering and aerospace sectors. The Hänel Lean-Lift and Rotomat utilise the available room height of a premises in its entirety in a similar fashion to high bay racking. …

And quality performance capabilities with the introduction of the EPC Gen 2 “Wave” tag that establishes the next level of RFID tag performance. I've included the news release (below) in case you haven not seen this on the wire already but you should know that brand new high-resolution .jpeg images …

The Intelligent Transport Strategy solves the challenges of delivering business benefit in the mobile logistics marketplace. Key to the realisation of this strategy are real-time track and trace, the use of RFID auto ID technology for non-invasive data collection and the delivery of data using persistent message queuing. Microlise have …

Kardex extends industry-leading PowerPick 5000 software to give users instant, online visual analysis of critical warehouse statistics Keeping track of warehouse performance has become significantly easier for users of Kardex automated materials handling and retrieval systems. The materials access specialist has enhanced its productivity-boosting PowerPick 5000 software package with a …