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AUTOMATION...
Reliability and productivity
in automated warehouses
Central to automated warehouses are the components that guide and transfer a
component around the system. Whether it’s a linear actuator to vertically retrieve a
part from high racking or a ring system to rotate an autonomous picking robot, linear
and rotary products play a key part. The experts from HepcoMotion tell us more
he logistics and warehousing industry has becoming fundamental to the warehousing and
been undergoing a period of immense logistics industry – particularly for online retail
change, most notably in recent months products sold in volume.
Tdue to the coronavirus pandemic. Demand Automated warehouses are efficient, fast,
for online deliveries has gone skyward, and retailers flexible and reliable. They allow for improved
have had to adapt rapidly. Customers are shopping warehousing, goods distribution, and optimum
online all over the world and automation is material flow. An automated warehouse uses a few
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