At last year’s Modex, I wrote that “it’s all about the software.” I may sound a little like a broken record, but it’s been a theme at Modern of late. here but I just came back from ProMat 2015 in Chicago. And, while there was plenty of exciting mechanical equipment on display, including Opex’s goods-to-person picking solution, shuttles and robots at Dematic and Intelligrated, a new AGV at JBT and a fully-automated octopus stretch wrapper at Muller, the real talk was software.