How the metrics we inherited from manual warehouses became the metrics we least trust, and why the new ones can be just as misleading. The quarterly review opened the way it always did. The automation dashboard was green across the board. System uptime for the quarter: 98.7 percent, comfortably above target. Mean time between failures […]
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For a decade, piece picking has been the automation industry’s honest admission of failure. Pallets, cases, totes: all of that got automated years ago. But the single item pulled from a jumbled bin, in whatever shape, material, or orientation it happens to land in, remained the job robots couldn’t reliably do. Vendors kept promising the […]
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For years, warehouse automation was sold on a simple promise: install the robots, cut the errors, lower the cost. That promise held up right until the world stopped behaving predictably. Here’s what’s changed by 2026, and why flexibility has become a metric in its own right.
Continue ReadingGo-live day gets the champagne and the case study. The research shows the real test, and the real risk to people and performance, starts the day after.
Continue ReadingThe question is no longer how to move people efficiently through a warehouse. It is how to design a space where the automation you need in five years can actually work.
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A practitioner’s guide to the real capabilities, the concrete use cases, and the honest limitations of digital twin technology in warehouse operations right now.
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Warehouse automation has attracted substantial capital over the past decade. Driven by rising labour costs, the e-commerce boom, and growing supply chain complexity, businesses across industries have invested in everything from automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) to autonomous mobile robots and AI powered inventory platforms. Yet for all the enthusiasm, the track record is […]
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Increased Complexity in Warehouse Logistics Those of you who follow what is published about warehouse logistics and the rapid pace of development may have noticed a common thread through all the articles: increased complexity. Tackling Volatile Warehouse Logistics Flow The warehouse logistics flow is becoming more and more volatile, and to tackle this, we need […]
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Increasing Complexity in Warehouse Logistics We see increasingly complex flows in warehouse logistics, including several automation solutions, conveyor systems, and packing machines. It is extremely difficult to predict how these will work in practice and what the consequences will be with increased flow. How much growth can the solution handle before bottlenecks begin to appear? […]
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The Buzzword of Resilience in Warehouse Logistics In this very special situation with a pandemic, resilience has become a buzzword. Every business, not only the supply chain, is talking about resilience. However, what does resilience mean regarding warehouse logistics? Is it really something new in warehouse logistics? Automating Logistics for Resilience I subscribe to newsletters […]
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