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Military hopes to propagate fuel cell technology By Allison Manning, Associate Editor and Tom Andel, Editor-in-Chief, 8/5/2008
The Defense Logistics Agency aims to share their knowledge among other users, pushing hydrogen-powered fuel cell technology into the mainstream More
System Report: Controlled complexity is cool at Polaris By Tom Andel, Editor in Chief - 08/01/2008
The Polaris supply chain network includes product development, manufacturing and distribution facilities—located in five different places. Intricate? Yes, but there’s beauty in how the production cycles synchronize. There is complexity in what Polaris does, but it’s not associated with unique parts. It’s the volume of parts that creates the distribution challenge.
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System report: Polaris production network makes fun By Tom Andel, Editor in Chief - 08/01/2008
Polaris designs, engineers, manufactures and markets all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), including the Polaris Ranger RZR and Victory motorcycles for recreational and utility use. These products are sold through a network of approximately 1,600 independent dealers in North America, and through six subsidiaries and 43 distributors in approximately 130 countries outside North America.
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Top 20 lift truck suppliers By Corinne Kator, Associate Editor - 08/01/2008
Last year was another good year for the industrial lift truck industry. Worldwide orders grew 12% in 2007, and sales revenue among the world’s largest industrial lift truck suppliers grew even more. Most of the world’s top suppliers—including No. 1 ranked Toyota—experienced double-digit revenue gains last year.
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Lift truck tips: Observe, coach, reinforce By James P. Kaletta, Guest Columnist - 08/01/2008
You're in compliance with OSHA 1910.178, which means you've put your lift truck operators through classroom training and had them demonstrate safe driving skills on a practical applications course. So now you're all set until it's time to recertify, right? Well, technically yes. But, you'll get better results if you treat lift truck safety as an ongoing conversation with your operators.
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Food and beverage chains cut waste out of supply chain By Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large - 08/01/2008
Given that companies are just now addressing what it means to be green in their materials handling operations, we talked to eight suppliers who regularly sell to food and beverage customers and asked them to focus on one of the central tenets of going green—the reduction of waste, whether that is wasted energy, wasted labor or wasted resources—and suggest ways materials handling can help that industry make better use of what they have while reducing their carbon footprint.
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Andel on Handling: Keep cool in your lobby By Tom Andel, Editor in Chief - 08/01/2008
On one hand, we have our annual Top 20 Lift truck suppliers, which is one of Modern's best-read features. On the other, we have Polaris, a manufacturing case history involving products that are wicked cool and would make the literature table in your lobby look pretty cool as well.
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Advisory Board: Forklifts are cool By Brett Wood, V.P. strategic planning, Toyota Material Handling USA - 08/01/2008
One of the most challenging things about working in materials handling happens at social gatherings. It's a twofold challenge: 1. Explaining exactly what we do and 2. Making it sound interesting. Truth is, in our industry the “cool factor” can be as elusive as the Loch Ness Monster. So what do you do when you find yourself attempting to explain your job to nieces, nephews, children,...
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Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling August 6, 2008 Some old forklifts never say die
While gathering material for Modern’s October Lift Truck Tips column on “... More
On Your Worst Behavior Frank, Modern's resident expert on imperfection, July 1, 2008 Wall-E is one of us
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Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling June 18, 2008 Get a charge out of this
My fellow blogger, Bob Trebilcock, just posted a Briefing on load building. It’... More
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