Conveyors and sortations before were the only material handling equipment that was automated. Nowadays, there are a lot more equipment that provides easy functionality for everyone, but still feels necessity for conveyors. For example, a goods-to-person solution for picking requires conveyors to be able to deliver products from storage and send them to picking stations, … Read more
Nowadays, warehouses all over the United States are starting to be aware of the significance of utilizing ergonomics to keep their employees happy and more importantly healthy. What is ergonomics? Basically, it is the study of how humans usually work and ways they can follow in order to minimize injury, stress as well as discomfort in … Read more
The Voluntary Inter-industry Commerce Solutions or VICS Association stated that a fresh new guideline assists material handling companies to build a model of their own business that links the consumers to factories. The association’s Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment or CPFR guideline includes steps on how the trading partners can perform better business management processes … Read more
Akro-Mils a popular North American supplier of organization, storage and transport products recently donated $1,000 worth of platform cart to Mercy Ships, a charity organization which gives surgical procedures for free to different patients in West Africa. Chief steward Peter Koontz of ‘Africa Mercy’ which is the world’s biggest charity hospital ship, stated that the … Read more
A celebrated manufacturer of colossal industrial caster and wheel named “Caster Concepts Incorporated” shared to the public just recently, the inclusion of the cutting-edge “Conveyor Concepts” to its long time family business. The production of specialized parts for conveyor industries is the niche of Conveyor Concepts; which includes drive assemblies, conveyor rollers, polyurethane wheels as … Read more
An update on the State Incentives & Resource Database was currently made by the Advanced Manufacturing Office or AMO, which pushes the limits on efficient access to almost 4,800 “energy incentive programs”. This can now be accessed through a search engine with different locations (state, region, city, zip code). These mentioned programs for energy incentives … Read more
An announcement was made by The Institute of Caster and Wheel Manufacturers or ICWM and the Material Handling Industry of America or MHIA with regards to the approval and release of the new ANSI ICWM: The ICWM Performance Standard for Caster and Wheel of 2012. This is the established revision of the ICWM Standard of … Read more
Industrial Supply Company offers a lot of industrial supply products to control waste in the workplace. In any office or industry, a healthy working environment is encouraged. The use of industrial supplies such as waste receptacles for waste management is highly recommended. It is the main responsibility of the office administration to educate its employees … Read more
The “Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association” or CEMA basing on their accumulated data, relayed that their scheduled orders for February 2012 amazingly increased by 24.8% in comparison to their bookings last February 2011. CEMA also sized up their February 2012 bookings with their orders on January 2012, and it also definitely went up by 13.2%. Though … Read more
Investors’ and consumers’ confidence gain constant progression along with unemployment, factory operating rate, and industrial production activities. All these contribute to “material handling equipment manufacturing” or MHEM in accordance to “Material Handling Industry of America’s” or MHIA most recent forecast which is led by MHIA’s executive consultant, Hal Vandiver. The constructions may it be non-residential … Read more
