The 'Supply Chain Frontiers' podcast explores the research collaboration between MIT and Mecalux to innovate logistics through AI and machine learning. This episode focuses on smart warehouses and how to overcome the challenges of integrating advanced technologies into traditional logistics environments.
The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and Mecalux collaborate on research into new applications of self-learning AI for businesses and society. The goal of this partnership is to incorporate the latest scientific advancements into warehouse software and automation systems.
The Intelligent Logistics Systems Lab will apply AI- and machine-learning-based methods and technologies to the logistics problems with the greatest impact for businesses and society.
Issue 24 of the Mecalux logistics magazine includes nine customer projects, an interview, several reports and news on the latest projects on which Mecalux is collaborating around the world.
Mecalux will supply pallet racking, an automated warehouse for boxes and the Easy WMS warehouse management system.
The company will rely on technology and automation to streamline and facilitate goods management.
Pallet Shuttle and Easy WMS: two solutions for storage capacity and traceability control.
The 21st edition of Mecalux's Best Practices magazine includes 12 projects from customers in different sectors
Logistics provider SATAR will equip its new warehouse in Agen (southern France) with 13 racking units and the semi-automated Pallet Shuttle system. Its objective is clear: to optimise its storage area.
The expansion will consist of two 19-metre-tall racking units to store 9,504 additional pallets.
Pinturas Lepanto will completely revamp its supply chain by replacing its old pallet racks with new taller ones and installing Easy WMS, the warehouse management system from Mecalux, at its facility in Binéfar (north-east Spain).
The new installation will be tasked with storing finished products from the production lines.
The installation is composed of 8 aisles measuring 23 m long with 10-metre-tall racking on both sides.
Automation will boost operations to absorb the increase in production and streamline picking.
Steklarna Rogaška, a manufacturer of high-end crystal home goods, will improve its stock management with the help of the Easy WMS warehouse management system from Mecalux.
The firm will go from managing products and operations in its warehouse manually to doing so digitally.
The WMS will offer full traceability of the available goods, which belong to customers from all sectors.
The 3PL provider has installed Easy WMS from Mecalux in its new warehouse in Saint-Priest, France.
Textbook rental specialist Rent a Book has upgraded its warehouse management system in Enghein, Belgium.
The 3PL has implemented the new version of Easy WMS at its three facilities in France.
