Material Handling Management articles from October 2008

Material Handling Management archives from October 2008

They want what?(Data Intelligence)
October 1, 2008... Of course, they want you to do everything faster, better, cheaper and with fewer resources. It's been that way since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. But, now, there's all this talk about "mass serialization," and soon it will...

Material handling gives manufacturer an edge: rising costs and fierce competition have led to massive cuts in U.S. tire production. For one American tire manufacturer, however, the answer is more efficient material handling.(Exclusive Report)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Though Amerityre Corp. is a tire company, making tires is only part of its business. The company's biggest efforts focus on making the manufacturing process more efficient. To this end, it develops and licenses...

Crossdocking trends report: speed and agility are the name of the game in today's customer-driven economy.(Facility Operations)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When companies cut costs, they must still ensure shelves are stocked with the right product to meet demand when those demands change every day. To achieve these goals, more and more companies are finding that...

Can green save the U.S. economy? According to several recent reports, the answer is "yes.".(Green Way)(Survey)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] All eyes are on the economy as the credit crisis shakes the foundation of the American financial system. Interestingly, some see the green movement as the knight in shining armor that will come to the rescue. A...

Deadly interaction: lift truck operator education may not go far enough to reduce accidents, especially when pedestrians enter the picture.(Powered Vehicles)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Every three days, someone is killed in an accident involving a lift truck. That shocking statistic, courtesy of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), adds fire to OSHA data. According to...

TMHU president: challenges are opportunities.(Powered Vehicles News)
October 1, 2008... IRVINE, Calif. -- Brett Wood is taking the helm as president of Toyota Material Handling USA Inc. (TMHU) at a pivotal time. Wood had been the company's vice president of marketing, product and strategic planning and training operations and...

Lift truck insiders anticipate change.(Conference Report)
October 1, 2008... SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Cost control, the global economy and environmentally friendly technologies took center stage at the annual meeting of the Industrial Truck Association (ITA) held Oct. 2-5 in Scottsdale, Ariz. During the Presidents'...

Crown lift truck gets IDEA award.(Powered Vehicle News)
October 1, 2008... NEW BREMEN, Ohio -- Crown Equipment Corp. has received its ninth Gold International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) from the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). Crown's RC 5500-series, stand-up counterbalanced lift truck was...

OSHA launches lift truck eTool.(Powered Vehicle News)
October 1, 2008... WASHINGTON -- On Sept. 30, OSHA unveiled its newest Web-based educational tool: the Powered Industrial Trucks (Forklift) eTool. OSHA's eTools are standalone, Web-based information resources covering occupational safety and health topics....

New President to lead Mitsubishi Caterpillar.(Powered Vehicle News)
October 1, 2008... HOUSTON -- Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA) announced that Shigeru Tanemura will become its new president. Tanemura replaces Hideaki Ninomiya, who is taking on a new assignment at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in Japan.

Where material handling meets packaging: to understand the symbiotic relationship between transport packaging and material handling, you have to attend Pack Expo International.(Show Preview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Every two years, McCormick Place in Chicago comes alive with thousands of exhibitors from the packaging industry--an extravaganza sponsored by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI), Arlington, Va....

No fear of success.(Witt's End)
October 1, 2008... Anyone who doubts that the workforce of the future is the next big thing in material handling should have been at this year's MHIA (Material Handling Industry of America) annual meeting in September. Interestingly, in a session focused on...

Top 10 reasons good employees quit: prevent expensive turnover by avoiding these common management blunders.(Workforce)
October 1, 2008... According to the U.S. Department of Labor and Statistics, turnover can cost an organization 33% of an employee's total compensation, including both salary and benefits. The impact is not only financial; it also affects employee morale. And, bad...

WERC releases salary survey.(Workforce News)
October 1, 2008... OAK BROOK, Ill. -- Pay for most warehousing employees is steadily increasing, according to the 2008 Warehousing Salaries and Wages study released by the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC). Conducted every two years, the...

APICS to offer vouchers for CPIM certification.(Workforce News)(Association for Operations Management)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... CHICAGO -- APICS, the Association for Operations Management, recently launched a new initiative to help college students earn their APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) certification. The CPIM Pearson VUE Jumpstart...

Fire and ice: the two largest raids in U.S. history happened in the last six months.(World of Difference)
October 1, 2008... The Wall Street meltdown was a recent flare in the fire of headline-grabbing fears, and both presidential candidates claim they can fix everything. Public panic and political rhetoric, however, have barely touched on the once-scorching...

Transport packaging, material handling aid science: how do you package and move a 77-million-year-old dinosaur? Very carefully. That was the challenge facing sealed air's transport packaging engineers.(Cover story)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "It was the chance of a lifetime," says Bill Armstrong, technical development manager for Sealed Air Corp. Armstrong led a team of transport packaging professionals to design, test and implement a packaging solution...