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Emerging Technologies

IARW/WFLO Expo Keynote: Technologies That Will Change The Business

Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA)

Futurist Jack Uldrich subtitled his presentation as “The Big AHA,” the three letters standing for awareness, humility and action.

Futurist author Jack Uldrich presents the “Big AHA” to the IARW/WFLO expo in Orlando.

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Software & Technology

Walmart Looks To U.K. Unit For Lessons In Online Grocery

Aided by the deep pockets of its parent company, Asda offers online grocery delivery across 97 percent of the U.K. and is pushing aggressively into "click-and-collect," where customers order online and pick up in person at no extra charge.

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Featured In Food Logistics: The Role Of ERP Technology In Meeting Food Safety Rules

Modern food industry specific business management solutions coupled with mobile electronic data capture technologies provide the ideal solution for a comprehensive food safety quality assurance solution.

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Wing-In-Ground Effect Vessels: Future Freight Transport?

WIG craft are maritime vessels that would be built to maritime structural standards and designs include pontoons, water skis and possibly hydrofoils to allow for touch down on and lift-off from a water surface.

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'Agrobots' Offer A Solution To U.S. Farm Labor Shortage

A 14-arm automated harvester that wheels through rows of strawberry plants, harnessing high-powered computing, color sensors and small metal baskets attached to the robotic arms to pluck ripe strawberries from below leaves while ignoring unripe fruit.

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Food Safety Best Practices In Food Transportation And The Role Of ERP Technology

FSMA will require those who transport food to use sanitary transportation best practices to ensure the safety of the food.

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Blue Bell Ice Cream Struggles To Find Bacteria Source

The decision to pull all of its products from stores after a listeria outbreak marks one of the most sweeping U.S. food recalls by a single brand and highlights the difficulty of controlling the potentially deadly bacteria.

The decision was the result of findings from an enhanced sampling program initiated by Blue Bell which revealed that Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream half gallons produced on March 17, 2015, and March 27, 2015, contained the bacteria. This means Blue Bell has now had several positive tests for Listeria in different places and plants and as previously reported five patients were treated in Kansas and three in Texas after testing positive for Listeria monocytogenes.

Swisslog Acquires FORTE Industries, Boosting Its Strategy In North America

Swisslog Americas

FORTE’s expertise in conveyor systems, case and piece picking, and sortation solutions, particularly in the e-commerce and multichannel retail segment, will strengthen Swisslog’s offering in North America.

E-Commerce Leaders Add Brick And Mortar Stores

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Software Solutions

Farmers Adopt Drones For Tending To Livestock

Scientists at the University of Oxford and other U.K. universities launched the “Robot Sheepdog Project” in 1995, and developed a box-size device that could chase a dozen ducks to one place in an enclosed area.

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Software Solutions

How Big Data is Changing Retail

SPS Commerce, Inc.

In today’s omnichannel retail environment, consumer-focused retailers meticulously monitor everything from transactions and demographics to what people are saying in social media circles.

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Fleet Management

Featured In Food Logistics: Efficient Fleets – Do You Need Telematics?

Telematics executives provide insight into what challenges in the telematics market will be, what they are currently experiencing in the field as the electronic logging device mandate draws near, and how real-time information has become crucial to f&b.

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