Zebra Technologies Unveils Solutions Advancing Intelligent Automation at ProMat 2025

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Zebra Technologies Unveils Solutions Advancing Intelligent Automation at ProMat 2025

2025-03-18 01:07 Last Updated At：17:55

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 17, 2025--

Zebra Technologies Corporation, a global leader in digitizing and automating frontline workflows, today announced new solutions to advance automation and visibility across manufacturing, warehousing, and supply chain operations. Zebra’s portfolio of new and current solutions is showcased in Booth #S637 at ProMat 2025 on March 17-20 at Chicago’s McCormick Place.

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Visitors at ProMat will see Zebra‘s new Aurora Velocity™ scan tunnel that ensures efficient, error-free package sorting and routing to drive automated warehouse operations. Available now in North America, Velocity uses centralized processing to deliver exceptional barcode reading performance at high speeds, while its scalable architecture makes it easy and cost effective to combine multiple machine vision capabilities in a single scan tunnel. These capabilities include dimensioning, AI-powered HAZMAT/Dangerous Goods label detection, optical character recognition (OCR), and package damage inspection. Furthermore, Velocity can seamlessly integrate additional functionality such as RFID, weighing, and print and apply.

According to the latest Zebra Warehousing vision study, customer demands are evolving rapidly, placing a majority (70%) of warehouse decision-makers under high pressure to modernize their operations. With 63% of decision-makers planning to accelerate modernization initiatives and investments in labor optimization in the next five years, AI and workflow automation are set to transform warehousing operations.

“Zebra is deeply committed to providing technology that improves frontline performance today while shaping the future of workflows with collaborative solutions that empower our customers to achieve unprecedented efficiency,” said Andy Zosel, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Intelligent Automation, Zebra Technologies. “Our ProMat booth visitors will experience how our solutions automate critical business workflows by leveraging advanced technologies such as machine vision, mobile computers, robotics, RFID, and AI.”

Zebra is showcasing several other solutions at ProMat, including:

FS80 fixed industrial scanner is designed to tackle challenges in warehouse, logistics, and distribution center environments. Its integrated lighting, enhanced read rates and extended depth-of-field make it an indispensable solution for businesses seeking to improve their automated applications driven by machine learning and track-and-trace solutions.

WS501 is the latest addition to Zebra’s wearable technology offerings. This powerful Android mobile computer is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and it supports multiple applications with unlimited mobile computing, scanning, communication, and collaboration capabilities. With the Zebra DNA software suite, it delivers uninterrupted connectivity for workflows.

Zebra Guardian is an integrated solution with four components for fleets of mobile computers. It provides secure device log-in, access control, device recovery, and loss and theft prevention, ensuring employees always have ready-to-use devices. Identity Guardian uses facial biometrics and SSO for convenient access, and Device Guardian offers cloud-based visibility for quick recovery. Device Guardian Access Management provides real-time charging status while Guardian Cabinets securely store and charge devices, optimizing management and efficiency across the portfolio.

Zebra Symmetry Fulfillment, launched earlier this year, is an AMR-assisted picking solution that combines autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) with wearable technologies, software, and analytics to boost productivity and cut costs. The AI-powered system enables workers to load and unload orders to and from carts without requiring the AMR to remain permanently attached to each cart, increasing utilization and reducing the number of AMRs required by up to 30%.

Zebra Tread Intel automates tire tread depth measurements, significantly reducing labor costs and manual errors. Designed to work with Zebra’s TC78 and TC58e rugged mobile computers, this solution utilizes Zebra OCR Wedge optical recognition software to capture essential data, enhance passenger safety and improve efficiency in vehicle fleet operations.

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Zebra (NASDAQ: ZBRA) provides the solutions to help businesses grow through increased asset visibility, connected frontline workers, and intelligent automation. The company operates in more than 100 countries, and our customers include over 80% of the Fortune 500. Designed for the frontline, Zebra’s award-winning portfolio includes hardware, software, and services, all backed by our 50+ years of innovation and global partner ecosystem. Follow Zebra on our blog and LinkedIn, visit our newsroom and learn more at www.zebra.com.

Evacuations begin for passengers on MV Hondius cruise ship off Tenerife hit by hantavirus

TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) — The first passengers to be evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship that is off Spain's Canary Islands arrived Sunday afternoon in Madrid, where they are being taken to a military hospital.

Spanish nationals were the first to leave the MV Hondius, which remains anchored off Tenerife, the largest island in the Spanish archipelago off West Africa's coast. The ship arrived early the same morning.

Planes carrying French and Canadian nationals left Tenerife after the Spanish plane. A Dutch plane was due to depart with Germans, Belgians and Greeks, while an American plane was expected to reach Tenerife around 5:30 p.m. local time (1630 GMT), according to FlightRadar 24, which shows live aircraft flight tracking details.

Maria van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization's top epidemiologist, said that a number of other flights were expected to arrive Sunday, including ones to repatriate passengers to Turkey, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

None of the more than 140 people on the Hondius has shown symptoms of the virus, officials from Spain's health ministry, WHO and cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions said.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sought to reassure the public, repeating on Sunday that the risk for the general public from the outbreak is low.

Even so, those disembarking and personnel working at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife wore protective gear during the evacuation process, including face masks, hazmat suits and respirators. Video obtained by The Associated Press showed passengers on the tarmac donning similar suits and being sprayed down with disinfectant.

A WHO spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a question from the AP about why such security protocols were being taken, despite officials' repeated reassurances about the low general risk from the virus.

Passengers and some crew members from more than 20 nationalities on board will be evacuated throughout Sunday into Monday.

After reaching Madrid, those evacuated on the first plane will be under quarantine, Spanish health authorities say. Only the 14 Spanish nationals on board will quarantine in the country.

Authorities have said that the passengers and crew members disembarking will be checked for symptoms, have no contact with the local population and will only be taken off the ship once evacuation flights are ready to fly them to their destinations. Tedros and Spain’s health and interior ministers are supervising the operation in Tenerife.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday thanked the Canary Islands for allowing the arrival of the Hondius.

Hantavirus usually spreads when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings and isn’t easily transmitted between people. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.

Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with hantavirus, which can cause life-threatening illness.

Passengers and crew members disembarking are leaving behind their luggage, and are allowed to take only a small bag with essential items, a cellphone, a charger, and documentation.

Some crew, as well as the body of a passenger who died on board, will remain on the ship, which will sail on to Rotterdam, Netherlands, where it will undergo disinfection, Spanish authorities said.

The expected sailing time to Rotterdam is around five days, the cruise company said.

The United Kingdom will send planes to evacuate its citizens. Americans on board will be quarantined at a medical center in Nebraska.

Twenty-nine people will be on board the Dutch charter flight, including Dutch nationals and people of other nationalities, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said.

The five French passengers being repatriated Sunday will be hospitalized for 72 hours for monitoring, after which they will quarantine at home for 45 days, France's Foreign Ministry said.

U.K. passengers and crew will be hospitalized for observation once they are flown home, British authorities say.

Australia is sending a plane, expected to arrive on Monday, to evacuate its nationals and those from nearby countries such as New Zealand and unspecified Asian countries, Spanish Health Minister Mónica García said. Its plane will be the last to leave Tenerife, she said.

Norway has sent an ambulance plane to Tenerife with personnel trained to transport patients with high-risk infections, its Directorate for Civil Protection told public broadcaster NRK.

The ambulance plane is owned by the European Union, but operated by Norway.

British Army medics have parachuted onto the remote South Atlantic territory of Tristan da Cunha, where one of the 221 residents has a suspected case of hantavirus.

The patient was a passenger on the MV Hondius and disembarked last month.

The U.K. defense ministry says a team of six paratroopers and two medical clinicians jumped Saturday from a Royal Air Force transport plane, which also dropped oxygen and medical equipment.

Tristan da Cunha is Britain’s most remote inhabited overseas territory, about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from the nearest inhabited island, St. Helena. The group of volcanic islands has no airstrip and is usually accessible only by boat on a six-day voyage from Cape Town, South Africa.

Meanwhile, a Spanish woman in the southeastern province of Alicante suspected of being infected tested negative for hantavirus, Spanish health authorities said Saturday.

The woman was a passenger on the same flight as the Dutch woman who died in Johannesburg after traveling on the cruise ship.

Suman Naishadham reported from Madrid. Angela Charlton in Paris, Jill Lawless in London, and Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin, contributed to this report.