What Modex 2026 put on the distribution floor

Modern Materials Handling’s Modex 2026 wrap-up, published 30 September 2026, records what editors saw on the floor. FORTNA and Jacobi Robotics showed a partnership around AI mixed-case palletizing that does not require the cases to be sequenced upstream. KNAPP exhibited automation and software spanning production, distribution, and last-mile. Ocado Intelligent Automation presented Ocado IQ, described as cloud software that manages activity across the warehouse.

These are system products. They change how a building moves goods. They do not, by themselves, give the second-shift technician an ordered set of checks when a divert or a merge stops. That remains a diagnostic task, which is the scope of Faultline’s demonstration.