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According to Tom Imerito, Science Communications, Pittsburgh’s leadership in artificial intelligence is spawning the technologies of tomorrow. Posted by Jonathan Kersting in Techburgher, Seegrid is bringing artificial intelligence to the marketplace with its robotic industrial trucks. The TECHburgher is a blog about technology (“tech”) and Pittsburgh (“burgher”).

AGVs are losing significant marketshare to Seegrid’s robotic industrial trucks. From manufacturers to distribution centers it has become clear that spending millions of dollars on AGVs is needless. It simply does not make sense to pay an operator $184 a day to complete non-value-added travel, when a Seegrid robot performs the same task, three shifts a day, five days a week, for as little as $44 day or $1.85 per hour. Seegrid robots are more affordable than an employee making minimum wage and do not require benefits, breaks, or vacation, and increase operational productivity and efficiency.

The Seegrid lease opportunity expires on February 28, 2013 and will not be extended. During ProMat 2013, Seegrid Corporation (www.seegrid.com), the leading manufacturer of robotic industrial trucks, announced a special leasing opportunity. The opportunity to purchase these units is limited and expires in just four weeks.

Equipment Leasing and Finance Association releases the Monthly Leasing and Finance Index (MLFI-25) for December showing new business volume is up 6% year over year, up 14% year-end, and up 80% month to month. The MLFI-25 is the only index that reflects the volume of commercial equipment financed in the United States.

During ProMat 2013, Seegrid Corporation, the leading manufacturer of robotic industrial trucks, announced a special leasing opportunity. The opportunity to purchase these units is limited and expires in less than a month.

Empty pallets lock together when stacked for easy storage, minimizing space required inside the delivery trailer and warehouse. The CooLift pallets are durable, made of tough, impact-resistant polypropylene, providing years of re-use – and they are recyclable.

More than 1000 attendees at ProMat stopped at the Seegrid booth and are exploring the purchase of multiple Robotic Industrial Trucks (GT10 model) before the end of February 2013. The special ProMat leasing discount makes the pricing so attractive (at $44 per day) that even the most skeptical buyer was convinced to arrange purchasing. According to Michael M. Hasco, Chief Growth Officer at Seegrid, noted, “ProMat attendees were looking for great solutions in material handling at the right price. Seegrid made sure to offer the best product at the best price and the response was spectacular. This short-term leasing opportunity tipped the scale and we are prepared to deliver thousands of robots in the next 45 days.”

Seegrid had a fantastic ProMat 2013. It started on January 21st when Seegrid became the top vote getter for the One Minute to Connect video contest for the second year in a row. Seegrid Corporation, the leading manufacturer of robotic industrial trucks, was interview by Mike Bacidore, Plant Services Magazine, Editor in Chief. John Hayes, with Seegrid shared his thoughts with Bacidore.

Fewer trucks on the road cuts fuel costs. CooLift ensures that combining C-Store and grocery deliveries increases fleet flexibility and reduces assets while changing from side-load to end-load trucks reduces maintenance costs.

Seegrid Corporation, the leading manufacturer of robotic industrial trucks, announced a ProMat show special lease opportunity. According to David Noble, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Seegrid, “The ProMat special leasing opportunity allows facilities to deploy the driverless GP8 single or double pallet truck for as little as $888 a month. According to Salary.com, a material handling employee, fully-burdened, costs a company $47,639 a year. This equates to a monthly cost of $3,680 or an hourly cost of $23.00. Instead of moving product with manned industrial equipment, companies will lease the GP8 pallet truck at a record low cost.”

Seegrid’s products include the driverless single and double pallet trucks and tow tractors. Robotic industrial trucks are available for purchase by manufacturing and warehousing facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and the Sultanate of Oman.

Pallet Trucks UK has just launched their new website, PalletTrucksUK.co.uk, to quickly and simply provide customers with information about their extensive range of products. Established in 1984, the company is one of the largest wholesalers of transport equipment in the UK. Featuring hundreds of high quality models in stock, the company’s new website allows customers to easily find the merchandise they need and receive it when they need it most.

The Move It Show features five segments. Each segment highlights a different sector of the industry. The Move It Show is produced by AGiLE Business Media, LLC. They are the publisher of market-leading brands in the logistics and supply chain markets, including DC VELOCITY and CSCMP'S SUPPLY CHAIN QUARTERLY. Focused on delivering must-have business content to its audiences of senior executives, it provides information across the full spectrum of media platforms, ranging from traditional print to web, tablets, webcasts, events, and video.

Materials handling solutions are increasingly being employed strategically by companies to reduce inventory levels, improve order-to-delivery cycles and help companies adjust to constantly changing consumer demand. Manufacturing, distribution, consumption and disposal are all areas in the product life cycle that rely on material handling equipment.

Neotrucks.com, the truck buying search engine website has added a new service that will show the percentage by which any selected truck falls above or below market price. NeoTrucks.com is a simple-to-use truck search engine that aggregates listings from hundreds of dealer and listing websites with as many as 90 thousand listings added daily.

Seegrid Corporation, the leading manufacturer of robotic industrial trucks, will be featured in the Move It Show toward the end of December 2012. The video will also be featured at ProMat 2013 at the DC Velocity’s ProMat theatre. Seegrid will be exhibiting at booth 1531 during ProMat2013 January 21st -24th.

Seegrid Corp., the leading manufacturer of robotic industrial trucks, will be exhibiting at ProMat 2013. “Driverless Robotic Industrial Trucks: In Stock and Install in Hours” is the ProMat video entry of Seegrid. To vote for best ProMat video, all attendees must be a registered for ProMat 2013.

Magliner hand trucks still use magnesium. The company theme has always been—and always will be—value, quality, and innovation. The Magline dealer network, committed suppliers and partners, and loyal and valued customers are central to the success of the hand truck leader.

Most robots are designed to be a helping hand or a high-tech tool. They help people with tasks that would be difficult, unsafe, boring, or repetitive for a human to perform. The first industrial robots performed tasks that were, “Hot, Heavy, or Hazardous,” the three-H’s, performing tasks that were too difficult or too dangerous for people. Robots exhibit varying degrees of autonomous behavior; many robots are programmed to faithfully carry out specific repetitive actions without variation and with an extremely high degree of accuracy. These actions are determined by programmed routines that specify the direction, acceleration, velocity, deceleration, and distance of a series of coordinated motions. Sometimes they mimic the motions of humans exactly, and other times they improve upon it, moving faster, more precisely, or more smoothly than humans.

American Packaging Corp. (APC), recently expanded its facility in Columbus, WI. With this expansion, company executives recognized they either needed to add labor or automate. There was a need to safely transport printed materials across the 100,000 square foot expansion and adding labor was just not an option. Instead, APC added Seegrid’s Robotic Industrial Trucks and reassigned the labor needed to transport the product to more value-added functions.

Last month at PACK EXPO in Chicago, Seegrid Corp. held a press conference lead by Michael M. Hasco, Chief Growth Officer. Hasco explained, “Each company in the printing and packaging industry faces its own unique challenges, but the industry overall faces similar challenges. These challenges include the need to exceed customer demands, cut costs, improve safety and reduce waste.”

Following sizable facility expansions, American Packaging Corp. (APC) determined the length of simple A to B routes was not ergonomically ideal for human pallet truck operators. Facing a decision to add operators or automate, the company turned to robotic industrial pallet trucks to increase consistency and savings.

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DS Waters needed a new kind of bottled water truck, so they turned to Magline. The challenge was their route sales representatives were picking up one or two bottles by hand to carry to their customers.

In a recent issue of Modern Materials Handling, Associate editor Josh Bond wrote about how automation bridges transportation gaps He shared how facing a decision to add operators or automate, American Packaging Corp., turned to robotic industrial pallet trucks by Seegrid to increase consistency and savings.