John McDonald: Connected tech in aisle 6
Imagine if we could help eliminate food deserts altogether by using autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries to underserved neighborhoods.
Imagine if we could help eliminate food deserts altogether by using autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries to underserved neighborhoods.
The Indianapolis-based system has spent $9 million on the “high-tech integrated service center,” but hopes to save up to $3 million a year through standardizing inventory, ordering in bulk at a discount, and streamlining delivery routes.
Kroger Co. and United Kingdom-based online grocer Ocado Group are working on identifying sites for three automated distribution centers in the United States this year and may open as many as 20 within three years.
The number of warehousing and storage jobs in central Indiana has more than doubled since 2001, both in numbers and as a percentage of total local jobs.
Widespread fears about automation and job loss are often misplaced. Automation has actually helped create jobs in e-commerce, rather than eliminate them, and stands to create more in the years ahead.
Agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. is considering whether to go ahead with a planned seed-processing and distribution facility after Greenwood's mayor dropped his support for providing property tax breaks toward the project.
The company said it plans to lease a new 140,000-square-foot building in Southtech Business Park where it will process, package and distribute corn, soybean and cotton seed for field testing.
The rise of populism, increasing racial resentments and anti-immigrant rhetoric, the widening divide between flourishing cities populated with skilled workers and emptying rural areas pock-marked with abandoned factories and stores should be a wake-up call.
Our leaders in manufacturing, agriculture and distribution must pursue the internet-of-things economy.
Rob Hedges, the 38-year-old fleet and facility department manager at Monarch Beverage, has helped his employer reduce its carbon footprint and improve efficiency.
Vending machines, warehouses bristling with technology slash costs.
Westfield Steel owners Karyn and Fred Prine are well on the way to transitioning to the next generation—son Fritz—thanks to timely planning.
The Atlanta-based company plans to break ground this month on a 100,000-square-foot expansion of its southeast-side cold storage facility. The expansion should be finished in November 2011.
About 2.5 million square feet of industrial space is expected to hit the market between now and the end of the year, most
of it in the Plainfield area.
Counties wanting to speed traffic among suburbs are building highways to avoid having to travel into Indianapolis. The result,
a 100-mile outer loop beyond Interstate 465, won’t be completed for years, and it won’t be built to consistent standards,
but it might help ease congestion.
In early April, the 110,000-square-foot Indianapolis distribution center of California-based medical-device supplier DJO Inc.
will quietly roll out a revolutionary automated package-handling system.
In early April, the 110,000-square-foot Indianapolis distribution center of California-based medical-device supplier DJO Inc. will quietly roll out a revolutionary automated package-handling system. If it works as advertised, it could signify the dawn of a robot-centric age for Indiana’s distribution industry-a niche that, according to fi gures from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, employs […]
BOONE COUNTY Distribution/warehousing still rule Duke looking to rail potential in Lebanon while Whitestown heats up LEBANON-The economy might be slowing like a down-shifting Mack truck, but Boone County’s economic development engine of warehousing and distribution keeps accelerating. The sector now accounts for more than 25 percent of the tax revenue in the county seat […]
In 2003, Carmel-based Telamon Corp. hit rock bottom. So, founder Albert Chen returned to his roots. Taiwanese native Chen, 63, had spent two decades building his firm to serve telecommunications giants. But when the dot-com bubble burst, the telecom industry tanked along with it. Telamon-then Indiana’s largest minority-owned business-saw its annual revenue plummet $300 million, down from $456 million in 2001. Most managers would have chosen to shrink Telamon to reflect its new reality. But Chen doesn’t do mass layoffs….
Carol D’Amico, president and CEO of the newly formed industry advocacy group Conexus Indiana, is intent on boosting the visibility
and growth of the logistics industry. Large though it is, it’s also relatively ambiguous and sits in the shadow of the state’s
much-vaunted life sciences industry.