Manufacturing Today Issue - 240 September 2025 | Page 50

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with 35 percent more storage capacity than other systems. It optimizes inventory storage, enhances throughput, expedites order fulfilment, and helps businesses optimize warehouse space. The solution can be configured to meet unique business needs and enhance workflow efficiencies.
Automation is the future of warehousing, delivering advantages like increased accuracy, productivity, and safety. OPEX continues to develop systems that address clients’ most significant challenges in the industry.
“ Our automated system selection aligns with our clients’ core warehouse functions, from storage and retrieval to sorting,” Drew elaborates.“ Our configurable solutions feature intelligent robotics, space-saving rack layouts, and functions designed to make life easier. With technology like our iBOTs, employees can take fewer steps while these autonomous systems efficiently navigate the racking system for streamlined storage and sorting.”
OPEX makes it possible to create a fully connected warehouse environment that reduces the burden on understaffed teams while making order fulfilment simpler and more systematic. Warehouse operations are essential to effective supply chains, and automation solutions from OPEX enable teams to keep up with demand.
“ My grandfather always had the philosophy that the more we can control our own destiny, the better we would be as an organization,” Drew shares.“ So, we have maintained a very high level of vertical integration as a priority. What that allows us to do is make a commitment to our customers. Control is in our hands. We’ re not reliant on multiple third parties to help us complete a project. From engineering an initial concept to
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