Safety

Why This Roundup Matters Now Six months after a fatal MD-11F crash prompted an Emergency Airworthiness Directive, FedEx signaled a May restart for its 29 parked tri-jets—and the industry took notice. This roundup gathers insight from safety auditors, operations chiefs, pilots, shippers, maintenance

Rohit Laila has spent decades building and tuning supply chains that balance speed, cost, and resilience. He’s led network shifts, overseen automation rollouts, and stayed close to the shop floor—from the hum of sorters to the cadence of dock doors. With a 2 million–square-foot distribution center

Relentless delivery windows, tighter audits, and rising energy costs have turned every minute of warehouse downtime into a measurable liability, and operators have responded by tightening workforce competency while installing access systems that fail safely and recover fast. The strategy has been

From pilots to prime time, a new operational threshold crystalized the shift: millions of verified robot tasks, sustained uptime across campuses, warehouses, and sidewalks, and measurable media reach turned autonomy from showcase to staple in day-to-day operations. The signal was not novelty but

Rohit Laila has spent decades in the trenches of supply chain and delivery, building and operating systems that have to work every single day, at scale. He’s equally at home on a dock floor listening to a sorter hum as he is in a war room studying dashboards. In this conversation, he shares how AI

Rohit Laila brings over two decades of specialized experience to the industrial logistics landscape, having navigated the complexities of supply chain management and last-mile delivery. His career has been defined by a deep commitment to integrating cutting-edge technology with traditional material