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Large products or small, high volume or not so high?there are automated sortation applications available. But choose with care?you'll be living with your choices for years to come.

As the recession's haze clears, a brighter outlook emerges.

Actually, when it comes to conveyor safety, the answer is no. Without guidelines from OSHA, manufacturers and users looking to keep workers out of harm's way are on their own.

Collaborating with a third-party logistics management firm and an international material handling specialist, BMW runs a production parts warehouse in South Carolina that operates with the precision of a Z4 roadster.

Sagging electronics sales have driven PC makers to crank up the demands they make on the distributors that supply them with parts. One of those distributors has turned the crunch into an opportunity.

FDA approval came too late for last year's flu season. But Wyeth Pharmaceuticals plans to make up for lost time with this year's launch of its nasal influenza vaccine, FluMist. It's banking on a high-tech cold chain distribution network to make it happen.

Conveyors originally built for defunct online grocer Webvan now serve a new master: a large pharmaceutical company.

Sales of high-speed sorters may have peaked during the dot-com boom, but manufacturers aren't going down without a fight.

A maze of smoothly humming conveyors has replaced the jumble of pallets in distributor J. Polep's DC. The result? No more late shipments.