摘要: |
If last year the spigot on materials handling system investments was nearly wide open, this year a more conservative approach is revealed in our annual survey into automation spending and related trends. The spigot isn't being shut off, but there is some fiddling of that spigot to find just the right flow of automation spend and projects to arrive at productivity gains that will help con- tain costs over the longer term. Our "Annual Warehouse and Distribution Center (DC) Equipment Survey" sets out to find how much was spent on materials handling automation, equipment, and related software over the past year, while also asking about the outlook for future spending as well as trends that will be growing in importance. |