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GXO Logistics is a worldwide warehouse options firm that designs and operates a few of the most superior warehouse options on this planet. | Credit score: GXO Logistics
The worldwide marketplace for warehousing is estimated to whole over $400 billion, however lower than 5% of that market is at the moment automated. Nonetheless, the rising complexity of provide chains, together with rising strain on profitability from rising prices and competitors for patrons and labor, has created demand for warehouses with tech ecosystems — networks of robotics and software program designed to optimize security, effectivity and profitability.
RoboBusiness 2023 (Oct. 18-19 in Santa Clara, Calif.) can be diving into the way forward for warehouse automation. Rob Thyen SVP, Gross sales Options and Interim CIO at GXO Logistics, is speaking about “Designing the Warehouse of the Future” on Oct. 18 from 4:15-5 PM. This session will spotlight the several types of expertise, together with automated storage and retrieval methods (ASRS), robotic arms, goods-to-person robots, in addition to information analytics, a lot of them industry-first implementations — and the way they had been strategically built-in to create a state-of-the-art tech-ecosystem at this warehouse of the longer term. In 2023, GXO was the world’s largest contract logistics supplier.
In 2023, an instance of such a tech ecosystem was launched within the U.S. The positioning consists of one of many largest deployments of robotics in logistics and an industry-first mixture of state-of-the-art automation. The expertise options had been chosen to optimize returns operations, often known as reverse logistics, for a shopper electronics firm, and custom-designed to deal with a excessive fee of throughput at minimal price, whereas rising accuracy and productiveness, reducing prices, and elevating profitability for the client. The warehouse is able to processing 50,000 digital units per day with expertise that may choose a selected merchandise from over 2 million items of stock in seconds.
Rob Thyen
Thyen is the Senior Vice President of Gross sales Options and leads the IT perform for GXO within the Americas and Asia Pacific. He has greater than 20 years of expertise in provide chain methods and warehouse design. Thyen is intimately conversant in designing modern improvements to drive buyer options.
Primarily based in Greenwich, Conn., GXO Logistics is an American international contract logistics firm that manages outsourced provide chains and warehousing. GXO spun out of XPO in August 2021. Following the spinoff, GXO had roughly 94,000 staff and operated 869 warehouses with greater than 208 million sq. toes of area throughout 27 nations. GXO’s contract logistics prospects function in expertise[15] and infrastructure.
RoboBusiness is the main occasion centered on growing business robots. There can be 60-plus audio system, 100-plus exhibitors and demos on the expo flooring, networking receptions, the Pitchfire Robotics Startup Competitors and extra. You’ll be able to try the present record of audio system, to which extra can be added.
RoboBusiness can be co-located with the Area Robotics Engineering Discussion board, an occasion centered on efficiently growing robots that function in wide-ranging, out of doors, dynamic environments.
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