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Phil Van Wormer, Executive Vice President, Sky-Trax, Inc.:
"Bridging the Divide between Man and Automation: Merging Driven and Unmanned Materials Handling Vehicles into High Performance Fleets"
Topic Info (co-presentation with Kollmorgen):
The ability to automatically locate and track driven material handling vehicles with inch-accuracy inside industrial buildings is ushering in a new era for material handling automation. New vehicle location technologies are the key to automating tasks in existing facilities with today’s industrial vehicles in a flexible and economical way. Optical real-time location technology used for driven vehicles can also be applied to automatically guided vehicles; allowing for a combined work environment of driven and guided vehicles working together safely and cooperatively within a traditional warehouse environment.
Discover the possibilities of optical guidance systems as we explore how new real-time location technologies provide remote control guidance for automated vehicles, as well as the ability to monitor, control, and manage manned vehicles in a shared work environment. Sky-Trax and Kollmorgen will discuss implementation considerations to merge the driven and unmanned vehicle operations; and the benefits to be gained with the new mixed vehicle fleets. Learn how this new combination of driven and optically guided vehicle fleets can improve operational performance, efficiency, increase safety through collision prediction, track and direct all resources within the entire fleet of vehicles for optimized operation, and provide near real-time job routing throughout the entire fleet. Case study examples of current implementations will be included.
Philip B. Van Wormer:
Philip B. Van Wormer is Executive Vice President of Sky-Trax, Incorporated, the leading solutions provider of patented Optical Real-Time Location Systems for tracking goods, vehicles and guiding autonomous vehicles in any size facility.
Mr. Van Wormer joined Sky-Trax with 30 years of extensive experience in leading global revenue growth for a wide variety of businesses including third party logistics and transportation. His results have been consistently delivered through the execution of award winning marketing strategies, development of new sales channels, launching new products and services, building partnerships with OEM’s and Tier 1 suppliers as well as the integration of strategic acquisitions.
Prior to joining Sky-Trax, Mr. Van Wormer was the President and CEO of LaneScan, LLC, a private equity backed, safety technology company focused on over-the-road transportation fleets. Prior to LaneScan, he was Senior Vice President at APL Logistics with responsibility for global sales, marketing and supply chain engineering. While at APLL, he was instrumental in transitioning the company from a regional service provider into a leading provider of integrated global supply chain solutions. Prior to APLL, Mr. Van Wormer was the Senior Vice President of global marketing at GE Capital’s Transport International Pool (TIP). At TIP, he initiated the launch of several new services including GPS trailer tracking and was recognized corporately for his innovative sales and marketing programs to more effectively sell TIP’s solutions to C-level executives. Prior to TIP, he held various senior manager roles at DuPont with such well known brands as TEFLON and CORIAN.
Mr. Van Wormer holds a chemical engineering degree from Tufts University and during his career has also been involved in a number of entrepreneurial endeavors involving wireless telecommunications and off-grid solar systems.