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by   Steve Banker March   10 th ,   2014 Traditionally, we said that warehouses were operated in either a manual, semi-automated, or highly automated fashion. In a manual warehouse, pickers used carts, forklifts and other “dumb” forms of carriage to go to picking locations, gather the inventory, and deliver those goods to the shipping dock. However, forklifts are becoming intelligent. With the right kind of control system, a warehouse using forklifts becomes semi-automated. Modern intelligent forklifts include diagnostics that allow the equipment to signal when it needs to be serviced, speed controls, anti-slip technology that monitors wheel spin and improve traction on slick floors, collision detection, fork speed optimization, and more. Intelligent forklifts promote new process flows in the warehouse.  When integrated to a WMS, the forklift’s fork and be raised or lowered much quicker. The WMS directs a forklift to a pick location. Once at the locatio...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the cereal grain. For other uses, see  Maize (disambiguation) . "Corn" redirects here. In British English, "corn" can mean any  cereal . For other uses, see  Corn (disambiguation) . Maize Illustration depicting both male and female flowers of maize Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Monocots (unranked): Commelinids Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Subfamily: Panicoideae Tribe: Andropogoneae Genus: Zea Species: Z. mays Subspecies: Z. mays  subsp.  mays Trinomial name Zea mays  subsp.  mays L. Maize  ( / ˈ m eɪ z /   mayz ;  Zea mays  subsp.  mays , from Spanish:  maíz  after  Taíno   mahiz ), known in some English-speaking countries as  corn , is a large grain  plant domesticated by  indigenous peoples  in  Mesoamerica  in  prehistoric time...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the cereal grain. For other uses, see  Maize (disambiguation) . "Corn" redirects here. In British English, "corn" can mean any  cereal . For other uses, see  Corn (disambiguation) . Maize Illustration depicting both male and female flowers of maize Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Monocots (unranked): Commelinids Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Subfamily: Panicoideae Tribe: Andropogoneae Genus: Zea Species: Z. mays Subspecies: Z. mays  subsp.  mays Trinomial name Zea mays  subsp.  mays L. Maize  ( / ˈ m eɪ z /   mayz ;  Zea mays  subsp.  mays , from Spanish:  maíz  after  Taíno   mahiz ), known in some English-speaking countries as  corn , is a large grain  plant domesticated by  indigenous peoples  in  Mesoamerica  in  prehistoric time...