Industrial Automation

What is a smart vending machine? Learn how it works, plus key features & benefits for improving inventory control and reducing costs.

Smart lockers are transforming asset security by combining automation, access controls, and real-time tracking to reduce loss and improve accountability. In this guide, you’ll learn how smart locker security helps businesses protect valuable assets while streamlining operations and strengthening asset management strategies.

Learn what asset management is, how asset management systems work, and how businesses monitor assets, reduce risk, and improve efficiency.

Research across 250 senior industry professionals found that the average frontline employee loses 2.5 hours per week simply locating the tools and components they need to do their job.

Using intelligent metalworking solutions is all about cost savings. This is the heart of the matter, whether you’re in manufacturing, MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations), warehousing, medical, or any of the myriad of fields where it’s applied.

For more and more companies an approach to maintaining control of key tools, consumables, and other items on the shop floor using vending machines and inventory management software has become an integral aspect of their overall business strategy.

Industrial Vending is not a phrase people would necessarily understand unless they work in an industrial environment. Typically, vending machines are associated with food or drinks dispensing in the wider context. However, those who are aware of industrial vending would first think of a hardware machine.

PPE management and its use is the new normal as we are in a challenging period globally. COVID-19 has disrupted businesses worldwide. With reports in the news on the lack of PPE, PPE being overused or abused, it’s important to protect what seems a rare commodity. Communities are sewing masks at home and ‘pitching’ in but should we even need to do that?