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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
VA to Expand Online Memorial Website to Include Veterans Buried Overseas
The Department of Veterans Affairs has added more than 210,000 veterans to its online memorial project for U.S. veterans, including pages for Americans buried in cemeteries overseas. Ahead of Memorial Day, the VA announced it has expanded its Veterans Legacy Memorial website to include those interred at locations overseen by the American Battle Monuments Commission, the federal agency that manages U.S. military burial sites in Europe, the United Kingdom, Africa, Asia and elsewhere. "The brave Americans resting in American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries and whose names are inscribed on ABMC memorials around the world sacrificed their lives to liberate allied countries and to protect our nation's interests," Acting Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs Ronald Walters said in a statement last week. "It's our honor to preserve their legacies." Read Next: Pentagon Will Use Health Screenings, Commanders to Ferret Out Trans Troops for Separations The VA launched the Veterans Legacy Memorial website in 2019 to highlight former service members buried at national cemeteries, giving loved ones the chance to tell their veterans' stories by adding service records, remembrances, photos, historical documents and more to their personal pages. The program later was expanded to include VA grant-funded cemeteries, those managed by the Department of Defense, U.S. Park Service cemeteries and private cemeteries where veterans have received a VA-provided grave marker since 1996. The project now includes more than 10 million pages, with more than 200,000 submissions made to veterans pages, according to the VA. Earlier this year, the VA announced that it will allow veterans to build their own VLM pages, uploading images, autobiographies, military achievements and life milestones -- anything they would want someone to know about them -- before they die. To use this VLM feature, known as "Your Life, Your Story," veterans must be eligible for burial in a national cemetery and have received pre-approval by the VA. They then will be able to log into a secure area of the site to create their pages; the content will go live once the veteran passes away and the VA approves their family's request for burial or other memorial benefit. VA officials have said the next goal for the VLM is to add the names of veterans who received VA-issued grave markers before 1996. The ABMC has managed overseas veteran graves since 1934, when President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order mandating that the agency oversee eight military cemeteries in Europe. It currently administers 26 American cemeteries overseas, caring for more than 124,000 graves and memorials dedicated to roughly 94,000 who are missing in action, lost or buried at sea. "We are proud to be a part of this partnership, which adds new resources to honor our nation's veterans from all wars and brings their stories to those who aren't able to visit our ABMC sites overseas," ABMC Acting Secretary Robert Dalessandro said in a news release last week. Related: This Memorial Day, VA Adds More than 300,000 Veterans to its Legacy Memorial Project Site
Time Business News
13-05-2025
- Business
- Time Business News
Smart Storage for Smart Startups: Tips for Stocking, Sorting and Managing Your Warehouse from Day One
Opening a warehouse is more than renting a large space and stocking it with products; it is about designing a program to aid in its organizational objectives and minimize waste and errors while it scales with the business. When a young company or small to mid-sized business objects to expanding its warehousing capacity and scaling operations, the design and layout of a warehouse greatly affect supply chain effectiveness. Yes, for your business, whether you're storing raw materials or managing fulfilment, dedicating time to planning the storage system of your warehouse is crucial for sustainability. But one of the crucial factors that relate to the planning is how to utilize the vertical and the horizontal space – and that is where modern storage systems come into play. Below are smart storage for smart startups. Perhaps one of the earliest decisions you'll need to make is the selection of the picking type and the construction materials that are going to define the structure. Conventional cage-racking formats tend to be cheaper initially yet contain wasted vertical heights and demand extra floorspaceYet, despite being cheaper initially, conventional cage-racking formats donot make the most of their potential height and take up more floor space, which negatively affects the efficiency of movements. The modern equivalent is the Vertical Lift Module (VLM), an AS/RS that takes advantage of vertical space rather than horizontal space. Accommodating startups and growing businesses, VLMs are intended to store goods in trays picked by the system and delivered to an access location upon voice command. Not only does this increase storage capacity, but also it provides efficient use of space and time, and that is by quickly locating inventory. After choosing the type of storage system that you need for your business, it is time to divide your warehouse into functional areas: receiving area, storage area, picking zone, packing area, and shipping area. It should also provide a rational and efficient flow of the materials and goods within this layout. For instance, whereas perishable products can be placed nearer to picking zones due to frequent handling, slow-moving goods can be placed at higher or remote parts of a VLM or racks. Effective zoning reduces the travel distances for workers, offers fewer opportunities for mistakes and increases the amount of products per hour, all of which are crucial for startup companies aiming to provide quality service with a small number of employees. One common mistake many new ventures make is that they design a warehouse that can contain the amount of stock required at the time of setting up the business and not the amount of stock that is anticipated in the future. It is, therefore, important to design some flexibility into your layout in order to avoid costly overhauls at later stages. Modular shelving, VLM systems, and, ergo-movable workbenches can be easily added up or expanded to accommodate such changes. Specifically, selecting a WMS that can scale means that your physical and digital setups remain highly compatible as your warehouse evolves. It is not the size of the warehouse that matters, but its design that best suits the company's needs. Choosing the appropriate storage systems and materials can have a positive impact on startups as it may enhance productivity and performance while at the same time minimizing wastage. It is now time to design with a goal in mind. Go past the bare bones of utilizing shelving and start using options that enhance productivity and maneuverability. Storage choices, especially when constructing a new building or expanding an existing one, are all crucial. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
Channel Post MEA
19-03-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Milestone Leverages NVIDIA Cosmos Curator To Launch Platform To Democratize AI-Model Training
AI developers across the globe share the challenge of finding sufficient high-quality, accurate and reliable video data to train visual AI models. Milestone Systems has announced Project Hafnia to build services and democratize AI-model training with high-quality, compliant video data leveraging NVIDIA Cosmos Curator and AI model, fine-tuning microservices. Leveraging the NVIDIA platform, Milestone Systems' Project Hafnia is aiming to be a leading service for data generators, to share and utilize their data, and for developers, to access traceable and regulatory-compliant annotated video data. Milestone's goal is to put the latest advances in Vision Language Models (VLM) and supporting data curation capabilities in the hands of as many developers as possible. One of the first service offerings is a VLM, fine-tuned using NVIDIA fine-tuning microservices on a large volume of compliant transportation data, curated using NVIDIA Cosmos Curator. The VLM's accuracy and performance optimizations are tuned for running on NVIDIA GPUs and in NVIDIA's video search and summarization (VSS) AI blueprint. 'By leveraging the NVIDIA platform, Milestone Systems is helping accelerate this next wave of powerful visual services,' says Deepu Talla NVIDIA Vice President and General Manager — Embedded and Edge Computing. 'The next phase in development and adoption of visually perceptive Agentic AI services will be unlocked by recipes like NVIDIA VSS blueprint combined with widely available and accessible fine-tuned VLM models,' he says. Access to data Milestone Systems, a global leader in data-driven video technology and analytics, is aggregating compliant data through its global network of partners and customers in video data management. These organizations seek to leverage their own data to develop smarter analytics and will be able to benefit from the platform, which can be utilized to train AI models on sufficient, compliant data. 'Artificial intelligence is our generation's biggest game-changer. A major challenge for the ongoing development is having access to enough high-quality data for training AI models. The Project Hafnia platform will collect and curate data with the aspiration to be the world's smartest, fastest and responsible platform for video data and training of AI models,' says Thomas Jensen, CEO of Milestone Systems. Additionally, Project Hafnia will remove major friction points and provide smooth and seamless access to data. Driven by NVIDIA Cosmos Curator data curation, the service will speed up developing AI and analytics – up to 30 times faster than today's standards. Accuracy and speed Milestone Systems will offer two services: A cutting-edge service for AI model training with high-quality video data through Training as a Service, where software developers can access quality data to train AI-models A new Visual Language Model as a Service for smart city transportation and Intelligent Traffic Service use-cases that will be industry leading in performance. With new high-quality data and improved annotation, future analytic software for applications such as traffic management, manufacturing, airports, law enforcement, and business could achieve accuracy high enough to enable large-scale automation of operations and surveillance like never before. Traffic Management VLM By leveraging the NVIDIA platform, Milestone Systems has taken the first step in developing a market leading traffic and transportation Visual Language Model (VLM). The model supports a range of use cases, including general traffic assessments, driving condition evaluations, alert validation, and incident reporting. Project Hafnia is initially launching as a pilot, with developers having the opportunity to sign up for early access at The platform will initially focus on video data from traffic with plans to broaden the scope once fully live. Milestone Systems owns and manages the platform. 0 0
Zawya
19-03-2025
- Business
- Zawya
With NVIDIA Cosmos Curator, Milestone announces a platform to enable access to data and train AI Models
AI developers across the globe share the challenge of finding sufficient high-quality, accurate and reliable video data to train visual AI models. Today, Milestone Systems announces Project Hafnia to build services and democratize AI-model training with high-quality, compliant video data leveraging NVIDIA Cosmos Curator and AI model, fine-tuning microservices. Leveraging the NVIDIA platform, Milestone Systems' Project Hafnia is aiming to be a leading service for data generators, to share and utilize their data, and for developers, to access traceable and regulatory-compliant annotated video data. Milestone's goal is to put the latest advances in Vision Language Models (VLM) and supporting data curation capabilities in the hands of as many developers as possible. One of the first service offerings is a VLM, fine-tuned using NVIDIA fine-tuning microservices on a large volume of compliant transportation data, curated using NVIDIA Cosmos Curator. The VLM's accuracy and performance optimizations are tuned for running on NVIDIA GPUs and in NVIDIA's video search and summarization (VSS) AI blueprint. 'By leveraging the NVIDIA platform, Milestone Systems is helping accelerate this next wave of powerful visual services,' says Deepu Talla NVIDIA Vice President and General Manager — Embedded and Edge Computing. 'The next phase in development and adoption of visually perceptive Agentic AI services will be unlocked by recipes like NVIDIA VSS blueprint combined with widely available and accessible fine-tuned VLM models,' he says. Access to data Milestone Systems, a global leader in data-driven video technology and analytics, is aggregating compliant data through its global network of partners and customers in video data management. These organizations seek to leverage their own data to develop smarter analytics and will be able to benefit from the platform, which can be utilized to train AI models on sufficient, compliant data. 'Artificial intelligence is our generation's biggest game-changer. A major challenge for the ongoing development is having access to enough high-quality data for training AI models. The Project Hafnia platform will collect and curate data with the aspiration to be the world's smartest, fastest and responsible platform for video data and training of AI models,' says Thomas Jensen, CEO of Milestone Systems. Additionally, Project Hafnia will remove major friction points and provide smooth and seamless access to data. Driven by NVIDIA Cosmos Curator data curation, the service will speed up developing AI and analytics – up to 30 times faster than today's standards. Accuracy and speed Milestone Systems will offer two services: A cutting-edge service for AI model training with high-quality video data through Training as a Service, where software developers can access quality data to train AI-models A new Visual Language Model as a Service for smart city transportation and Intelligent Traffic Service use-cases that will be industry leading in performance. With new high-quality data and improved annotation, future analytic software for applications such as traffic management, manufacturing, airports, law enforcement, and business could achieve accuracy high enough to enable large-scale automation of operations and surveillance like never before. Traffic Management VLM By leveraging the NVIDIA platform, Milestone Systems has taken the first step in developing a market leading traffic and transportation Visual Language Model (VLM). The model supports a range of use cases, including general traffic assessments, driving condition evaluations, alert validation, and incident reporting. Project Hafnia is initially launching as a pilot, with developers having the opportunity to sign up for early access at The platform will initially focus on video data from traffic with plans to broaden the scope once fully live. Milestone Systems owns and manages the platform. About Milestone Systems: Milestone Systems is a world leader in data-driven video technology used in industries as diverse as manufacturing, airports, law enforcement, retail, and traffic management. We provide a clear picture of how to create a safer, better and more prosperous world. Our XProtect video management software, BriefCam AI-powered analytics, and Arcules cloud VSaaS help customers learn from the past, understand the present, and predict the future. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Milestone employs more than 1,500 people worldwide and has been an independent company in the Canon Group since 2014.
Globe and Mail
17-03-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Modula Introduces Flexibox: A New Automated Solution for High-Speed and Flexible Order Fulfillment
Modula Inc., a leading manufacturer of automated storage and retrieval solutions, officially launches Flexibox, a high-speed, scalable, automated storage solution designed to enhance order fulfillment efficiency and flexibility for businesses across various industries. Franklin, Ohio--(Newsfile Corp. - March 17, 2025) - Modula Inc., a leading manufacturer of automated storage and retrieval solutions, announces the official launch of Modula Flexibox, its latest innovation in automated storage and retrieval systems. Unveiled at ProMat 2025 (March 17-20) in Chicago, IL, Flexibox is now available to businesses looking to potentially enhance order fulfillment operations with high-speed picking and scalable automation. Designed for retail, e-commerce, automotive, and distribution industries, Flexibox enables companies to streamline warehouse operations with no disruption to existing workflows. Image 1 To view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit: How Flexibox Works Built on Vertical Lift Module (VLM) technology, Flexibox is designed for maximum efficiency, featuring a central elevator with a telescopic fork capable of retrieving up to nine bins simultaneously. Integrated with advanced WMS software, Flexibox groups multiple order references within a single tray, minimizing operator wait times and accelerating order fulfillment. When an order is received, Flexibox analyzes all order lines and retrieves the required bins using its central elevator. These bins are placed on a service tray that is delivered directly to the picking bay, allowing operators to complete multiple order lines in a single cycle. While one tray is being processed, the system simultaneously prepares the next one, ensuring an uninterrupted workflow and maintaining a high-speed picking rate. Flexibox offers flexibility with internal and external bay configurations, available in single or dual delivery levels to suit various operational needs. The internal bay optimizes floor space, making it ideal for compact environments, while the external bay maximizes picking speed. A single delivery level ensures ergonomic picking at an optimal height, while the dual delivery level aims to enhance efficiency for high-demand workflows. With Smart Preparation, Flexibox automates order processing during idle periods by pre-arranging trays in advance. Controlled by WMS, the system prepares "ready-to-pick" trays based on incoming orders, reducing waiting times and streamlining workflows. Additionally, Flexibox maximizes vertical storage, reaching heights of up to 65 feet, accommodating hundreds of bins while freeing up valuable floor space. What Sets Flexibox Apart Flexibox has been designed with the aim to meet the growing demand for faster, more efficient order fulfillment while keeping automation accessible to businesses of all sizes. " Flexibox represents a major step forward in high-speed order fulfillment," said David Lind, Sales Director of Modula Inc. " Designed to adapt to the ever-changing needs of modern warehouses, it allows businesses to automate efficiently, scale flexibly, and increase picking throughput without major infrastructure changes." Some of its key potential benefits include: High-Speed Picking – Handles up to 180 bins per hour, aiming to increase throughput and reducing order processing times. Scalable & Flexible – Flexibox allows companies to automate at own pace, without requiring major facility modifications. Optimized Space Utilization – Compact footprint with vertical storage capabilities, maximizing warehouse efficiency. Ergonomic & User-Friendly – Designed for improved operator experience, aiming for ease of use and reducing strain during picking operations. Seamless Integration – Fully compatible with Modula WMS and other warehouse automation systems, including conveyors, AMRs, and AGVs. Modula's Legacy of Innovation The launch of Flexibox is the latest milestone in Modula's ongoing commitment to developing solutions that respond to the evolving needs of modern warehouses. " With Flexibox, we are providing a dynamic solution that addresses modern warehouse challenges," said Orfeo Finocchi, CEO of Modula Inc." It is designed to be scalable, efficient, and seamlessly integrated into existing operations, ensuring companies can meet growing demands without the burden of costly overhauls or long downtimes." Over the past few years, Modula has introduced several groundbreaking technologies: 2021 – Modula Climate Control and Clean Room for specialized temperature and environment-sensitive applications. 2022 – Modula Horizontal Carousel and an updated version of the Modula Lift. 2022-2024 – Modula Next for ultra-precise picking and Modula Pallet for safe, ground-level pallet handling. What's Next For individuals who couldn't attend the initial product showcase, Modula is offering live webinars, on-site visits, and additional demo opportunities to demonstrate the capabilities of Flexibox. Businesses interested in high-speed, flexible automation are encouraged to explore how this solution can potentially enhance operations. Learn More & Book a Demo Visit Modula Flexibox for full details. Visit Modula for more automation solutions. About Modula Modula is a leading manufacturer of automated storage solutions, designed to optimize space and aiming to improve picking and storage operations for any industrial sector or environment. Modula vertical lift module (VLM) line maximizes the storage potential of high-ceiling facilities, securing items in enclosed units up to 54 feet tall. The horizontal carousels are ideal for low-ceiling environments, as well as those seeking maximum throughput. For both solutions, automated delivery aims to increase productivity and operators from unnecessary bending, walking, and reaching for parts. Today, Modula counts on more than 30,000 customers around the world and 4 production plants in Italy, the US (Lewiston, Maine & Franklin, Ohio), and China. In addition, Modula has a network of twelve subsidiaries (located in France, UK, Spain, Poland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, India, Singapore, Australia, Colombia, and Mexico) and more than 100 authorized dealers worldwide. This offers a local presence to clients, allowing the company to serve all markets in a personal and timely manner.
