{"id":10566,"date":"2022-08-16T01:42:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=10566"},"modified":"2022-08-10T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T07:46:00","slug":"mobile-automation-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/mobile-automation-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Automation Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhi.org\/mag\">The Mobile Automation Group (MAG)<\/a> industry group of MHI members reported an over 24% increase in mobile automation business in 2021 compared to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the 2021 data reported by member companies represents an average compounded annual increase of 17% for the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 24% increase confirms the growth we have all been seeing in the industry,\u201d stated Mark Longacre, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhi.org\/mag\">MAG<\/a> Chairman, and JBT Applications Engineering Manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe five-year growth rate shows this is not just a short-term spike, but a longer-term trend where systems deliver the expected results and customers roll systems out to many facilities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhi.org\/mag\">MAG<\/a> is a group of system and component suppliers that operate in the mobile automation market for material movement in manufacturing, warehousing, and other industrial applications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhi.org\/mag\">MAG<\/a> members are the industry\u2019s leading suppliers of automatic guided vehicle systems. They supply systems worldwide and in virtually every major manufacturing and distribution sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAG programs include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The development of educational and training materials.<\/li>\n<li>A voice in the development and maintenance of national standards.<\/li>\n<li>The confidential exchange of market statistics and publication of industry data to the public.<\/li>\n<li>The communication of the benefits of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhi.org\/mag\">MAG<\/a> solutions via trade shows, educational forums, and other national and regional seminars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about MHI industry groups, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhi.org\/industrygroups\">mhi.org\/industrygroups<\/a>. To learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhi.org\/mag\">MAG<\/a>, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhi.org\/mag\">mhi.org\/mag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8133\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8133\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mhiLogo-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mhiLogo-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mhiLogo-1-768x344.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mhiLogo-1-1536x688.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mhiLogo-1-2048x917.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mhiLogo-1-400x179.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mhiLogo-1-440x197.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mhiLogo-1-650x291.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mhiLogo-1-848x380.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MHI is an international trade association that has represented the material handling, logistics and supply chain industry since 1945.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mobile Automation Group (MAG) industry group of MHI members reported an over 24% increase in mobile automation business in 2021 compared to 2020. In addition, the 2021 data reported by member companies represents an average compounded annual increase of 17% for the last five years. \u201cThis 24% increase confirms the growth we have all&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/mobile-automation-up\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[896,377,106,51,6116,5544,590],"class_list":["post-10566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-featured","category-news","tag-distribution-center","tag-manufacturing","tag-material-handling","tag-mhi","tag-mobile-automation","tag-mobile-automation-group","tag-warehousing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mobile Automation Up - Find A Distributor Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/mobile-automation-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mobile Automation Up - Find A Distributor Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Mobile Automation Group (MAG) industry group of MHI members reported an over 24% increase in mobile automation business in 2021 compared to 2020. 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