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Yale to demo groundbreaking automated lift truck platform at Automate 2025

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Yale Relay solution avoids need for complex coding, enabling fast deployment, lower cost and easier ongoing management

Yale Lift Truck Technologies has announced an interactive demo of Yale Relay™, the company’s reimagined automated lift truck solution, at Automate 2025 in Detroit, May 12-15, 2025. At booth #1452, attendees can try the intuitive drag-and-drop automation portal for themselves, which enables fast deployment and easy, on-the-fly changes without the need for custom programming.

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“Sourcing lift truck operators is not the only labor challenge facing warehouses. As they deploy automation to help address that issue, they run into another challenge: finding the software engineering skillsets typically required to implement and manage those systems,” says Brad Long, Global Activation Manager, Yale Lift Truck Technologies. “Yale Relay is different. It does not require coding, nor does it require the traditional CapEx model. It’s a completely new approach designed to help warehouses overcome barriers that may have prevented them from adopting automation previously.”

While some automation solutions require complex integration and service from multiple stakeholders, Yale Relay is backed by training, parts and support directly from Yale. The drag-and-drop portal allows warehouses to implement automation in as little as a day. Mapping the facility is as easy as driving the truck manually through the facility, and changing routes is as simple as clicking and dropping waypoints on the interactive map – no coding required. The cloud-based portal enables management of trucks and fleets across multiple facilities, with remote monitoring and over-the-air update capabilities.

The frictionless rental approach offers a fast, hassle-free way to implement automation that rolls all costs – including software, hosting fees and ongoing platform improvements – into a single monthly or annual fee. Rather than incurring the upfront costs and lengthy timelines of engineering studies that CapEx investments in automation require, the rental model enables operations to simply pilot their automation program with one or two trucks, with the flexibility to scale as business dictates.

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