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Is robotics the answer to warehouse labour shortages?

Robotic lift trucks can provide both short- and long-term cost savings related to labour, injuries, damage, and manual equipment fleets. However, ROI is not their only appeal, with leaders also choosing robotic solutions to hedge against long-term labour challenges and promote scalability without labour constraints and volatility, says Ron Farr

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Barcode reading between the lines

FROM SUPERMARKETS to warehouses, barcodes are ubiquitous for identifying and tracking items. The widespread adoption of barcodes is due to almost flawless reliability, with read rates exceeding 99.9% in perfect conditions. However, in parcel sorting, external factors can affect this almost seamless process, resulting in barcode no-reads and, consequently, rejected parcels. To limit such instances, Prime Vision has developed Barcode Vision, a unique solution that reduces the number of rejected parcels.

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Beating the plastic tax with LOCK N’POP™

LOOKING AT costs and ways of reducing them in the current economic time has never been more of an imperative. New UK tax legislation, introduced in 2022 focusing on the volumes of plastic packaging used by companies, creates further challenges to the operating costs and profitability of manufacturers in the food and beverage sectors.

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