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Kiva Systems wins a customer and an award By Staff, 6/26/2008 10:25:00 AM
Online retailer Zappos has implemented Kiva’s sortation and shipping system, and Ernst & Young has honored Kiva’s founder for his entrepreneurship. More
MHIA funds OSU ergonomic research By Staff - 08/15/2008
The Material Handling Industry of America announces its first-ever direct funding of materials handling and logistics research.
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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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Not-for-profit pallet pool comes ashore By Tom Andel, Editor in chief - 08/01/2008
The U.S. grocery industry has a love-hate relationship with wood pallets. The love has to do with how much it depends on these things to get products through its supply chain. The hate is expressed when pallet damage causes product damage. Bruce Scholnick, president of the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA), believes a solution will be available by the end of this 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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Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling August 18, 2008 Evolution by acquisition
A rash of M&A announcements begs the question: why is materials handling so hot a... More
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
Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling July 28, 2008 Turn information into knowledge
In this multi-tasking world, workers are dividing their attention among too many mast... More
Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling July 14, 2008 Warming and salmonella crises hyped?
Supply chains are being sullied by our dirty carbon footprints. That’s what the... More
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