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The CEMA Application Guide
for Unit Handling Conveyors
2nd Edition
The most comprehensive
technical resource and
education guide available
for the Conveyor and
Intralogistics industries.
Developed by the Foremost
Experts in the Industry
Buy a hard copy or download direct from:
www.cemanet.org/publications/
Conveyor Equipment
Manufacturers Association
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No other organization has
been more instrumental in the
development of standards,
technical information,
publications, safety practices
or engineering manuals than
CEMA, the Voice of the Conveyor
Industry of the Americas.
b Inventory management, information technology, and controlling
technologies, which include computers, controllers, and software as
well as wireless control systems and
voice recognition systems.
b Automatic identification equipment and systems, such as bar-
code printers and scanners, vision
systems, voice recognition systems,
and radio-frequency identification
(RFID) systems.
b Transportation and logistics,
such as road, rail, sea, and air freight
transportation services; autono-
mous vehicles and robotics; and
third-party logistics and reverse logistics.
b Material handling and logistics
equipment and systems, which include
a broad array of products ranging from
the highly complex (like automated
guided vehicles and automated storage
and retrieval systems) to the elegantly
simple (like casters, racks, and shelves).
b Emerging technologies, a category
that includes everything from sensors
and software to driverless vehicles and
robotics to augmented reality and wearable technologies.
b Supply chain management, which
serves as a catch-all category for such
products and services as alternative fuel
systems, parcel management and distribution, reverse logistics, and inventory
security services.
A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE
In addition to the exhibition, an extensive educational conference will run
concurrently with the show. The conference features four keynote addresses,
a “Women in Supply Chain Industry
Forum,” and more than 150 supplier-led
seminars on a broad array of manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain
topics.
The Modex keynote presentations will
offer a glimpse of the future and insights
into how businesses can prepare themselves for what lies ahead. On Monday,
March 9, Nikki Haley, who has served
as governor of South Carolina and U.S.
permanent representative to the United
Nations, will deliver the opening keynote address. In an interview with DC
VELOCITY Group Editorial Director
Mitch Mac Donald, Haley will share
her personal story of leadership and talk
about the supply chain’s critical role in
both U.S. economic development and
global commerce.
On Tuesday, March 10, Tan Le, founder and CEO of bio-informatics and tech
company Emotiv, will deliver a talk on
how technological advances on the near
horizon will offer us ways of integrating
humans and machines. Arguing that
automation and AI (artificial intelligence) are not competitors to humans,
but rather part of an extended, augmented human organism, Le will explain how
