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                  Charlotte, NC – (October 26, 2021) – Murata Machinery USA, Inc. (Muratec) is now EHS Insight integrated with our Cleanroom Factory Automation division and offers a “one stop safety shop” to help enhance factory workflows, drive continuous improvement, and build a strong safety culture with EHS…

Charlotte, NC – (September 23, 2021) – Murata Machinery USA, Inc. (Muratec) introduced their latest innovation and revealed their new integrated, value-added approach to industrial automation at FABTECH 2021 in Chicago. Showcasing what humanizing automation at the core means, attendees experienced live demos on how Muratec systems can integrate, helping customers make it, move it,…

Does Your Food & Beverage Operation Need a Driverless Forklift? Cold supply chain management for food and beverage warehousing presents a variety of challenges for companies. Operating in chilled or frozen temperatures can be hazardous for employees and significantly increase the costs of labor, operations, and storage.  With driverless forklifts, food and beverage operations can…

Automated Cold Storage Solutions Can Save Time, Space, and Money In cold storage logistics, protecting margins is a matter of eliminating waste. Automated storage and material handling technology helps every link in the chain maximize efficiency, maintain product integrity, and reliably meet demand.  How Integrated Automation Protects the Cold Supply Chain Manufacturers, warehouses, and distributors…

AGV ROI: A Deeper Cost-Benefit Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicles It’s widely accepted that automated guided vehicles (AGVs) help businesses save money. What everyone really wants to know is – how much, and how quickly? To answer these questions, most people come up with a hard number that weighs the total cost of the AGV…

Charlotte, NC – (April 6, 2021) – Murata Machinery, Ltd. (Muratec) is proud to announce that it has earned the Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) Award for 2020. Through its dedication to continuous quality improvement, Muratec has achieved a level of performance that consistently exceeds Intel’s expectations. “As one of only 26 Preferred Quality Supplier Award…

With the uncertainty surrounding the workforce in the past year, it’s tempting to reduce headcount as the fastest and easiest way to minimize labor challenges, lower your costs, and maintain profitability. But you will lose good employees and forfeit the opportunity to ramp up production.  To take your business (and employees) to the next level, choose a combination machine that improves your ability to retain valued employees, increase hours worked with less fatigue, retrain and…

On January 1, Congress enacted the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2021. The NDAA is an annual piece of legislation that sets policies to guide the U.S. Department of Defense and authorizes appropriations for the upcoming fiscal year. For the first time, this year’s act contains provisions to stimulate and incentivize semiconductor manufacturing on…

Warehouse Automation Solutions A skilled labor shortage has afflicted the logistics industry for several years. The warehouse labor shortage in 2020 has been compounded and complicated by COVID-19, which has made the public increasingly reliant on ecommerce. When labor shortages prevent businesses from meeting order fulfillment expectations, operations leaders look to warehouse automation.  Here are…

How Will Warehouse Automation Overcome Supply Chain Weaknesses Exposed By COVID-19? Any reflection on the year 2020 would be incomplete without considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In manufacturing and logistics, global shutdowns caused supply chain interruptions, production slowdowns, and missed fulfillment deadlines prompting widespread shortages of essential products. From many perspectives, these shortages…