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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 the earth. | 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 present automated. Nevertheless, the growing complexity of provide chains, together with growing stress on profitability from rising prices and competitors for purchasers 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.) will probably 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 various kinds of know-how, together with automated storage and retrieval methods (ASRS), robotic arms, goods-to-person robots, in addition to information analytics, lots of them industry-first implementations — and the way they have 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 location 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 have been chosen to optimize returns operations, also referred to as reverse logistics, for a client electronics firm, and custom-designed to deal with a excessive charge of throughput at minimal value, whereas growing accuracy and productiveness, decreasing prices, and elevating profitability for the client. The warehouse is able to processing 50,000 digital units per day with know-how that may choose a particular 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 aware of 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. ft of house throughout 27 nations. GXO’s contract logistics prospects function in know-how[15] and infrastructure.

RoboBusiness is the main occasion centered on growing business robots. There will probably be 60-plus audio system, 100-plus exhibitors and demos on the expo ground, networking receptions, the Pitchfire Robotics Startup Competitors and extra. You’ll be able to take a look at the present record of audio system, to which extra will probably be added.

RoboBusiness will probably be co-located with the Subject Robotics Engineering Discussion board, an occasion centered on efficiently growing robots that function in wide-ranging, out of doors, dynamic environments.

Additionally co-located with RoboBusiness is DeviceTalks West, the premier {industry} occasion for medical know-how professionals, at present in its ninth yr. Each occasions appeal to engineering and enterprise professionals from a broad vary of healthcare and medical know-how backgrounds.