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Mobile automation is messy. Brownfield constraints. Finance is pushing back on ROI. Safety sign-offs. Departments that need actually to work together.
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How to Judge an Automation Vendor Before You Sign the Contract (opens the original)
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The robot is the easy part. What happens around it decides whether your automation project works or ends up gathering dust in the corner. You've seen it happen: a company buys the flashy AGV or AMR, it doesn't hit expectations, and within a year it's sitting unused while everyone blames "the technology." If you're weighing a warehouse automation investment and worried about repeating someone else's mistake, this one's for you. Brian Spradlin is President of Rocrich AGV Solutions, with two decade
Manager of International Safety Standards: Why Listing Every AGV Standard on Your RFP Could Backfire (opens the original)
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Mobile robot standards are multiplying faster than most operations teams can track them. Your RFP lists every AGV and AMR safety standard under the sun, but does anyone on your team actually know which ones apply, or why? Between ANSI B56.5, R15.08, ISO 3691-4 and the forthcoming ISO 26058, it's easy to end up compliant on paper and exposed in practice. Chris Soranno is Manager of International Safety Standards at SICK Sensor Intelligence and chairman of the ANSI Industrial Robot Subcommittee on
Multi-Vendor Automation Projects: Where Things Go Wrong and How to Fix Them (opens the original)
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Scope creep, vendor accountability gaps, and undertrained teams at go-live. Three of the most common and costly problems in complex automation deployments - and three that are almost always avoidable. This excerpt from Episode 5 of The Automation Journey covers the section of the conversation where Yara Alsuwailem, Head of Engineering and Implementation at EQ Depot, goes deep on what causes these problems and exactly what integrators and customers need to do to prevent them. For the full convers
What It Really Takes to Deliver Complex Automation Projects - A Project Manager's View (opens the original)
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Your automated system is installed. The vendor says it's ready. So why isn't it performing? Scope creep, vendor accountability gaps, and underperforming systems in the first 90 days - these are three of the most common and costly challenges in complex automation deployments. And they're almost always avoidable. This excerpt from Episode 5 of The Automation Journey covers the section of the conversation where Yara Alsuwailem, Head of Engineering and Implementation at EQ Depot, goes deep on what c
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