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Designing and deploying a digital warehouse can be a challenge, with numerous technology options to add to your operations. From robotics and automation to the latest data analytics and artificial intelligence, how can you take advantage of digitalization?

At 2:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 4, expert panelists will discuss how emerging technologies are changing how engineers design warehouse systems and how businesses can gain insights and efficiencies with them. Sensors, digital twins, wearables, and virtual assistants are some of the tools that are part of this digital transformation.

In this free webinar, viewers can learn about:

• Ways to improve labor productivity with workforce management
• The orchestration of people and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for order picking and fulfillment
• Where augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) fit in the warehouse
• How AI will change how operators use data in positive feedback cycle
• How to scale digital transformation across facilities and the supply chain

Register now to attend this webinar on digitalization, and have your questions answered live. Registrants will be able to view it on demand after the broadcast date.

Digitalization speakers to share insights

Robert C. Kennedy is principal at RC Kennedy Consulting. For over four decades, he has planned, developed, and implemented industry-leading supply chain execution systems around the globe. Kennedy and his staff have led more than 200 large-scale implementation projects of supply chain execution software for leading customers in a variety of industries, including pharmaceutical, electronics, third-party logistics (3PL), and food and beverage.

As a leading voice of expertise, Bob is featured in regular interviews by industry media and has published articles, and he has presented at numerous trade shows and seminars.

RC Kennedy Consulting provides assistance to companies to improve operational efficiencies through process design and systems. It also helps them develop strategies for growth.

Ken Ramoutar is chief marketing officer at Lucas Systems, which helps companies transform their distribution center by dramatically increasing worker productivity, operational agility, and customer and worker satisfaction using voice and AI optimization technologies.

In his 25 years of customer centric roles in supply chain software and consulting, Ramoutar has navigated companies through uncertainty and volatility as a thought leader and change agent.

Prior to Lucas, Ken was senior vice president and global head of customer experience at Avanade, a $3 billion Accenture and Microsoft-owned company, and he has held leadership roles at IBM, Sterling Commerce, and SAP/Ariba.

Michael Taylor is the chief product officer and co-founder of Duality AI. He has a 20-year career in mobile robotics, with 15 years dedicated to building autonomous field robots at Caterpillar.

While there, Mike led the team developing the autonomy system for Caterpillar’s autonomous dozer, and he helped launch the Autonomous Mining Truck program. His roles included architecting behaviors and planning systems, as well as building a collection of simulation technologies to accelerate deployment to customer sites.

Taylor was also part of the Carnegie Mellon team that won DARPA’s Urban Challenge, where he led both the Controls Team and the Field Calibration Team. Taylor holds dozens of patents in fields ranging from robotics to simulation technologies.

At Duality AI, Taylor leads the company’s Product and Solutions Engineering team. He is responsible for steering Duality’s product strategy, developing technologies to address customer needs, and helping ensure that customers maximize the value they extract from Falcon. This includes projects ranging from a simulation solution to support a drone-based AI perception system, to generating synthetic data for high-volume manufacturing quality assurance, to characterizing and modeling of uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) navigating novel environments. 

Eugene Demaitre, moderator, is the editorial director for robotics at WTWH Media, which produces Automated Warehouse, The Robot Report, the Robotics Summit & Expo, and RoboBusiness. Prior to working for WTWH Media, he was an editor at BNA (now part of Bloomberg), Computerworld, TechTarget, Robotics Business Review, and Robotics 24/7.

Demaitre has participated in conferences worldwide, as well as spoken on numerous webcasts and podcasts. He is always interested in learning more about robotics. He has a master’s from the George Washington University and lives in the Boston area.

This webinar is sponsored by Baluff and Dexory.