The manufacturing industry figured that out 100 years ago.  Yet, automation somehow got lost on its walk from the manufacturing floor to the distribution center.  Well, it has now found its way.  And those that meet automation at their door and invite it in will survive.  And those that don’t; well, let’s just say the competitors your CEO worries about every day are hoping that you don’t look at robotic industrial trucks any time soon. Don’t believe me?  How many hand-sewn socks have you bought in the last 10 years?

The simple truth is that automation reduces costs, improves quality, makes work environments safer, and work easier for workers.  Those benefits have been known for a long time, just not available in distribution centers.

Robotic industrial trucks in the warehouse provide something very, very rare.  Something new, that both warehouse workers and management take as a positive change.  For managers, the cost reductions, process improvements, and simplicity are like no tool they have ever had before.  For workers, it’s clear they rather work with the machines, than be the machines themselves.

But don’t take my word for it, check it out for yourself.  Talk to users, the vendors.  YouTube.  It’s all going on right now.  You need to have an answer when your boss walks into your office with a published case study in his hand, touting the benefits your business competitor got when he installed robotic industrial trucks in his distribution center, months ago.

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