{"id":6171,"date":"2019-03-22T05:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T05:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2019-03-18T13:31:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T13:31:25","slug":"matthews-experts-present-promat-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/matthews-experts-present-promat-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthews\u2019 Experts Present ProMat Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, April 10, three experts from Matthews Automation Solutions<\/a> will present a free, on-show-floor educational seminar, \u201cUsing Proven Material Handling Automation and Emerging Bot Technologies to Optimize Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Order Fulfillment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The session runs from 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. in Theater I and is hosted by Gary Cash, vice president of solution development and Dave Remsing, vice president of market development. The pair will be joined by Dr. Paul Rivers, managing director of Guidance Automation, part of the Matthews<\/a> Applied Technologies Group.<\/p>\n

Rivers will draw on Guidance\u2019s 25 years of providing robotic technologies to introduce today\u2019s state of the art autonomous solutions. This includes hardware and software advances designed to maximize intelligence, performance, safety and application flexibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe front line of autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and automatic guided vehicle (AGV) development focuses on reducing errors, increasing throughput and maximizing operational efficiency, while doing so on a scalable, adaptable platform that flexes with changing demand and requirements,\u201d shares Rivers. \u201cAMRs should further create opportunities to integrate and collaborate with proven material handling systems to optimize all resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Combined with collaborative robot technologies, Matthews delivers innovative systems that maximize order fulfillment processes today, and tomorrow.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a tremendous amount of buzz within the industry right now about robotic material handling solutions and their potential for alleviating the labor shortage,\u201d adds Remsing. \u201cAs a result, many operations\u2014particularly those in DTC and omni-channel order fulfillment\u2014are trying to figure out where within their process robots might best fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he continues, robotic automation remains largely an emerging technology, with potentially high implementation costs and complex integration requirements. \u201cMany companies consider all three of those points to be entry barriers,\u201d Remsing says. \u201cOur ProMat presentation will explain several ways in which the throughput rates and labor productivity associated with material handling automation systems can be further improved with selective and incremental implementations of robotics. The point is \u2018evolution,\u2019 not \u2018revolution.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, robotics can increase the agility and flexibility of an automated material handling operation, notes Cash: \u201cCombining AGVs, AMRs and other robotic solutions allows a distribution center to more easily customize their system, yet accommodates future changes in fulfillment channels and requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

The session will detail a range of specific application examples in which the addition of robotic solutions increased order fulfillment speed, accuracy and agility. Among them:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n