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Outdoor retailer Cabela's wanted the advantages of voice technology but not the costs and hassles of a large-scale implementation. Could it find a system that filled the bill?
Planning a material handling system is not about what equipment to install—not at first. It's about starting with a clear understanding of what the system should do when it's up and running.
Utz Quality Foods wanted a way to assure there was nothing in its bags of snack foods but the product itself. With its new automated system and in-line X-ray, it now has visual proof.
An integrated order picking system has slashed labor costs, boosted throughput, and virtually eliminated errors at KeHe Distributors' new DC. And it used ordinary technologies to do it.
The latest "middleware" programs have eased the hassles of getting different software apps to "talk" to each other. Developments now under way promise to make it easier still.