Plant Services: Warehouses are ripe for robotics

From Plant Services:

The new MHS Insights solution from Material Handling Systems (MHS) helps warehouses and distribution centers optimize robotic system uptime through condition monitoring. It uses IoT sensors and system data to monitor handling systems, provide timely equipment maintenance recommendations and health assessments, and enable predictive maintenance.

“With MHS Insights, our goal isn’t to cover every single motor or gear in a facility with sensors. Our approach is more targeted, focusing on the most critical components to put the right data to work and provide insights operations can trust, easily translate into service action, and use for system lifecycle planning,” says John Sorensen, senior vice president of lifecycle performance services at MHS.

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