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The evolving opportunities for warehouse automation
Warehouse automation is increasingly within reach of small to medium warehouses, as technology has advanced, and the costs and IT integration requirements lessened.
Warehouse automation used to be an option only for larger operations, with one of the major barriers being the significant capital investment required. Solutions were often extensive and complex, fixed conveyor systems, or embedded wires within warehouse floors to enable autonomous vehicles. Projects also involved lengthy timescales. The data on which a design was based would often be three to four years old by the time the automation was fully live, and solutions were not easily modified.
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