Material Handling Systems (MHS)
Transforming Material Handling with Innovation

Much like several tech giants that started in the late 20th century, Material Handling Systems (MHS) was conceived in a single room—a barn, to be precise. Today, the company is a leading all-in-one turnkey material handling automation solutions provider trusted by businesses around the world. MHS’s solutions can handle all aspects of distribution center projects.

A customer-first mentality, which was established at the core early on, is now the driving force behind the company’s success. While the growth of e-commerce has irreversibly changed consumer behavior, MHS steadfastly maintained focus on delivering the best solutions and superior services to their customers with the help of rapid technology adoption and strategic acquisitions to expand their capabilities. Today, MHS is at the forefront of excellence in intralogistics, offering a truly comprehensive suite of solutions ranging from automated storage and retrieval system to robotics and HMI/ visualization. A sizable proportion of MHS’s clientele comprises parceling, distribution and fulfillment, integrators manufacturing, food and beverage, and e-commerce companies.

Built with state-of-the-art technology and years of industry knowledge and research, MHS’s Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) today helps businesses automate warehouse management. With AMRs, companies can automate loading/unloading and transportation of irregular-shaped and large products while also picking and moving items to and from fixed automation components. This finds great use when sorting items to the right outbound destinations.

MHS’s robotic solutions have a wide range of applications and can be customized to unique logistics-related challenges that businesses face today. “We’re a team of problem solvers, inventors and innovators with the expertise to engineer automated solutions for real-world logistics challenges by working closely and cooperatively with our customers. This agile approach accelerates the pace of development and gets us quickly from the lab into a live operational environment, where the real development continues,” says Dean Terrell, Senior Vice President, Research And Development, MHS. “We leverage MHS’s collective material handling knowledge as an experienced full-service provider, so our customers can be confident that our robotics solutions will integrate seamlessly, just like our more traditional automated systems.”

With the onset of the pandemic, contactless technology has become integral to every industry. Against this backdrop, MHS’s commitment to innovation extends to cutting-edge research-led advancements in the areas of vision, sensing, and gripping technology as well. The company’s automated systems are designed to reduce the need for manual intervention and maximize storage density by using vertical space. The automated storage and retrieval system by MHS has the capability to receive, put away and even receive inventory, irrespective of the environment or load size.

Through the proprietary ZoomOptix platform and comprehensive equipment controls expertise, MHS provides the HMI tools operations need for visibility, flexibility, and insight. It is a single user interface providing a complete view of the detailed equipment statuses, allowing everyone from upper management to maintenance technicians to receive the information they need, where and when they need it – on both workstations and mobile devices. The right HMI and visualization solutions can substantially increase visibility into system performance and provide quick access to system data for faster maintenance and information sharing.

MHS’s intralogistics solutions go beyond hardware and equipment. Their innovative software solutions help automate warehouse management systems (WMS) and warehouse control systems (WCS). By combining a fully-loaded WCS enhanced with key WMS functionalities, MHS makes way for intelligent decision making while executing and optimizing a wide range of distribution center processes.

Widely recognized as a leader in intralogistics solutions, MHS sets itself apart due to its unwavering focus on the customer and a strong management ethos that drives innovation and agility across the board, thereby achieving phenomenal results for each and every client.