Conveyors and sortations before were the only material handling equipment that was automated. Nowadays, there are a lot more equipment that provides easy functionality for everyone, but still feels necessity for conveyors. For example, a goods-to-person solution for picking requires conveyors to be able to deliver products from storage and send them to picking stations, and then onwards to the packing stations and shipping docks. At present, it uses much lesser conveyors than it did years ago which is a big improvement.
When you think of the past, conveyors are all about speeding things up. But today, conveyors are unbelievably smarter and can choose to take a slower pace and still perform to its maximum ability and can do it even in a smaller space. This is made possible by its new warehouse control system, drives and PLC’s.
Slowly but surely, South Americans, Latin Americans and Mexicans are starting to like the idea of material handling automation. Countries like Brazil, Argentina, Columbia and Mexico as well, are becoming constant electronic readers.
On a different note, Ned Thompson the CEO and president of PRAB, which is a conveyor company from Michigan, stated that a chaplain is part of his company and will always be. He believes that prayer is a very substantial component of a person’s life; his company even sends out employees for missions which they have been doing for quite some time now. He constantly makes it clear for everyone though, that his company is always open for those who are churched and un-churched.