May 20, 2024
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Beckhoff’s Logistics Revolution: Pioneering Automated Warehousing for Unprecedented Growth

William Adams05 mins

Beckhoff Revolutionizes Logistics with Cutting-Edge Warehouse Transformation The surging demand for Beckhoff technologies has propelled the company’s U.S. revenue to a remarkable 33.4% growth in 2022. In response to this unprecedented demand, Beckhoff USA has undertaken a significant overhaul of its Minneapolis-area warehouse, introducing an innovative Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) from OPEX Corp….

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UPS opens huge automated warehouse, where robots outnumber people 15 to 1

William Adams08 mins

UPS Velocity warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky. [Photo: UPS Media] United Parcel Service opened a new, technologically advanced warehouse last week. The 900,000 square foot facility, the company’s largest, will operate with over 3,000 robots doing the heavy lifting. The warehouse will initially employ 200 workers, but that number may eventually grow to 500. All of…

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Montana train derailment report renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems

William Adams013 mins

Federal investigators renewed their recommendation that major freight railroads equip every locomotive with the kind of autonomous sensors that could have caught the track flaws that caused a fatal 2021 Amtrak derailment in northern Montana. But installing the sensors on the tens of thousands of locomotives in the fleet could be cost prohibitive, and it’s…

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MIT Researchers Developed BioAutoMATED: An Automated Machine-Learning System That Can Select And Build An Appropriate Model For A Given Dataset

William Adams06 mins

The task of building machine-learning models can be challenging, particularly for researchers without expertise in machine learning. However, a team of researchers at MIT has developed an innovative solution called BioAutoMATED. This automated machine-learning system streamlines the process of model selection and data preprocessing, significantly reducing the time and effort required. The researchers believe that…

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