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GXO Logistics is a world warehouse options firm that designs and operates a few of the most superior warehouse options on the planet. | Credit score: GXO Logistics
The worldwide marketplace for warehousing is estimated to complete over $400 billion, however lower than 5% of that market is at the moment automated. Nevertheless, the growing complexity of provide chains, together with growing 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 know-how, together with automated storage and retrieval methods (ASRS), robotic arms, goods-to-person robots, in addition to knowledge 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 long run. 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 contains one of many largest deployments of robotics in logistics and an industry-first mixture of state-of-the-art automation. The know-how 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 charge of throughput at minimal price, whereas growing accuracy and productiveness, reducing prices, and elevating profitability for the shopper. The warehouse is able to processing 50,000 digital gadgets per day with know-how 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 operate 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 acquainted with designing modern improvements to drive buyer options.
Based mostly 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 workers and operated 869 warehouses with greater than 208 million sq. ft of area throughout 27 international locations. GXO’s contract logistics clients function in know-how[15] and infrastructure.
RoboBusiness is the main occasion centered on creating 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 may take a look at the present record of audio system, to which extra can be added.
RoboBusiness can be co-located with the Discipline Robotics Engineering Discussion board, an occasion centered on efficiently creating robots that function in wide-ranging, outside, dynamic environments.
Additionally co-located with RoboBusiness is DeviceTalks West, the premier {industry} occasion for medical know-how professionals, at the moment in its ninth 12 months. Each occasions entice engineering and enterprise professionals from a broad vary of healthcare and medical know-how backgrounds.
