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Industry charity Transaid celebrates Silver Jubilee

SMMT

This year international development organisation Transaid is celebrating a quarter of a century since it was formed by Save the Children, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK) and its Patron, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal.

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Packaging Robots Market to Worth US$ 7.5 Billion by 2032 at a CAGR of 7%

i4.0 today

Robots are capable of a wide range of tasks related to packaging, including picking and placing, boxing, palletizing, and warehousing. For instance, In 2020, one of the biggest manufacturers of robots, Fanuc Corporation, introduced the R-2000id robot with cable-integrated technology. Today Magazine.

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How DB Schenker used Feedly to create an “innovation hub” to detect new business opportunities

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

This leading logistics provider scans the horizon to identify trends and opportunities in real time. Impact Disseminate 18+ newsletters with over 2,000 internal newsletter subscriptions Surface the latest trends, emerging technologies and competitors Stay on top of customers’ latest logistics investments through targeted intelligence.

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Robotics and Automation in 2022 – Can They be a Hedge to Recession?

i4.0 today

This has made many large companies aware of the weaknesses of the current business model where manufacturing is outsourced, and global logistics is heavily needed. In 2020, the European Commission proposed its ‘Industry 5.0’ fold increase in demand for logistics and delivery robots and a 6.8-fold Compared with the ‘Industry 4.0’

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Collaborative robot market has strong long-term future

Control Engineering

A report by Interact Analysis indicates the future overall for the cobot market is strong as manufacturers continue to look to automation to improve their supply chain and logistics issues. The impact of delays to warehousing logistics projects has also resulted in a slower growth rate than expected.

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How automation and good jobs can co-exist

Control Engineering

In 2018, MIT convened its Task Force on the Work of the Future, which concluded in a 2020 report that while new technologies were not necessarily going to massively wipe out employment, smart practices and policies would be necessary to let automation complement good jobs.

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Global Robot Report Highlights UK’s Urgent Need to Increase Automation

i4.0 today

A record 517,385 new robots were installed in 2021 – an impressive 31% uplift from 2020.