Patricio Rodriguez
Texas A&M International University, USA
Title: Case Study: Automation Influence on Logistics and Warehousing Business Sector
Biography
Biography: Patricio Rodriguez
Abstract
Shipping and handling costs account for 25-75% of the total cost of a product. Laredo, Texas is known as biggest land port in the south border of the United States. The economy in this area is dominated by the logistics and warehousing business sector. The logistics sector has slowly started to integrate automated processes within the warehousing departments. Clients demand lower prices thus affecting the economy of the business sector. Automating the warehouses can be a costly project that slowly has started to be done. Autonomous forklifts have started to be tested. Safety technology will be analyzed. This paper will focus on studying the advantages and disadvantages of using autonomous forklifts and the impact that this change in technology can bring. This can be a call for ways to make the automatization process more affordable as new technology emerges.
