Brian Albright

Pack stations are an important stop in the flow of goods through a warehouse—one of the last touchpoints where employees can check for order accuracy, quality and damage. The pack station is also a key junction where automation and robotics merge with man... See more

Vision technology has a long history in the warehouse. The technology has been used in optical bar code scanning applications for decades, but vision is now making its way into monitoring, inspection and robotic guidance solutions—and the data gathered by... See more

The Manufacturing Institute (MI) and the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) will formalize a new statewide partnership to bring the MI's AI Skills for Manufacturing Training Suite to Alabama's community colleges on Monday, Sept. 28, at Calhoun Commun... See more

Engineer, inventor and barcode technology pioneer Dr. Jerome “Jerry” Swartz passed away earlier this month. He was 86. According to posts on the Zebra Technologies LinkedIn page and the Symbol Technologies Alumni Facebook group, he died in early August. H... See more

Earlier this year, Elon Musk announced that his SpaceX company would put data centers into Earth’s orbit to help meet the enormous need for compute power generated by artificial intelligence (SpaceX has merged with Musk’s xAI project) while reducing the n... See more