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There's high-density storage and there's narrow-aisle storage, but Schenker's gone one better: no-aisle storage. Its ultra-dense system stores pallets 24 deep and requires no human intervention.
Although they had been kicking around in research and development labs for years, it wasn't until the summer of 1974 that the bar code was unveiled to the public.
For small truckers, an out-of-service rig means an out-of-work driver. One truckmaker is borrowing distribution techniques from the retail world to get repair parts right out to dealers and trucks back on the road.
Sophisticated technology makes it possible to track a product's exact whereabouts through the entire supply process and beyond. But the story it reveals might be more than you want to or ought to know.
Many industry observers see auto ID as the breakthrough technology to watch the one that will forever change the way in which our supply chains operate.