Like all industries, the warehouse and logistic industry is moving into the future with a full head of steam. Companies across the country and the world are implementing a variety of new technologies in an effort to become safer, faster, and more cost effective.

One of these technologies is the automated guided vehicle, or AGV. As the name implies, an AGV is able to drive itself without human assistance, usually guided either by using pre programmed routes/floor plans, lasers, or some combination of the two.

So yes, it’s like a self-driving car combined with a forklift.

But can this new technology make an impact on your business right now? Or is the technology still a few years away from being viable? Continue reading →

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While watching HBO’s The Leftovers this past Sunday, I started thinking of what would affect me significantly if it one day just poofed and disappeared.

The answer was simple. The answer was pallets. And even though the answer was simple, the implications of how pallets would affect the world if they just vanished wouldn’t be.

Grant it, it wouldn’t be enough to fill an HBO drama (True Pallet Detective, anyone?), but the effects would be sprawling nonetheless. Continue reading →

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There are two types of people in the world right now: People who have heard of 2048, and people who are still able to focus on their jobs. Yes, the ever-popular tile-stacking math game has successfully stolen the attention of people across the nation who are trying to focus on things that don’t involve numbered tiles.

Believe it or not, there are some very important warehouse safety lessons that we can learn from this focus-siphoning life-stealer of a browser game.

When you really break down the strategy involved in 2048, you’ll find that it can actually be applied to a few different areas. Continue reading →

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