Honeywell is stepping away from warehouse automation, selling its Warehouse and Workflow Solutions division to private equity firm American Industrial Partners.
This follows its earlier sale of its Productivity Solutions and Services arm to Brady Corporation. Together, the two exits mark a deliberate pivot away from hardware-heavy automation toward software, sensing, and controls technologies Honeywell sees as the real play in autonomous industrial systems.
The divested business serves e-commerce, retail, and manufacturing customers with sortation systems, conveyors, palletizers, and robotics. American Industrial Partners plans to fold it into Trew, an existing portfolio company, building out a broader intralogistics platform.
The move shakes up a warehouse automation market already dominated by Dematic, Daifuku, and SSI Schaefer and signals a wider trend of industrial conglomerates shedding integration-heavy hardware businesses.
