- Spring into Action: MODEX 2016
- L'Oreal automates
- Annual Productivity Achievement Awards
- Mobility & robotics
- Finance your fleet
Modern Materials Handling Magazine Archives
February 2016 Modern Materials Handling
In this issue:
Like many global companies, L’Oreal is facing new demands from its customers in a dynamic market. Robotic layer picking and slotting software are two of the tools the health and beauty leader is using to stay competitive.
Modex 2016, slated to be held from April 4-7, will feature more than 800 exhibits and include a comprehensive educational conference. The event, held at Georgia’s World Congress Center in Atlanta, will offer an array of products to improve productivity in your operations.
Customers demand lease agreements that allow for change, reduce or eliminate penalties, and prevent surprises during or at the end of the term. Finance partners have responded by offering unprecedented flexibility and risk mitigation.
A time when autonomous robots navigate the warehouse or DC unattended could be right around the corner. Is your company ready?
Modern’s 2016 Productivity Achievement Awards honor companies that have made outstanding strides in improving operations through materials handling and related information systems.
Unified controls improve productivity in all functional areas.
Parts management hardware and software position parts supplier for scalable growth.
To address growing order complexity, robotic butlers bring goods to workers and savings to the bottom line for a 3PL.
Distributor eliminates frequent network outages, enhancing connectivity and morale.
Thorough application analysis can fasten productivity and efficiency to lift trucks and their attachments.
Collaborative robotics is on the horizon for palletizing, but we’re not there just yet.
Modern spends 60 seconds talking to MHI's director of membership about the Young Professionals Network and Modex 2016.
Welcome to Modern’s “Modex Show Issue,” by far the most comprehensive, pre-show listings available of the latest, most cutting edge equipment, systems and solutions that will be presented in Atlanta (April 4-7) by more than 800 exhibitors.
Stringent service levels and the pursuit of efficiencies leave no room for downtime, making business continuity essential to operational excellence.
By implementing periodic maintenance programs, telematics and Web-based fleet management services, lift truck managers can monitor fleet performance, increase productivity and reduce expenses.
Automated warehouses increasingly run the risk of derailing hundreds of orders if mechanization goes down at the wrong time. MRO provisioning best practices protect against extended downtime by assessing which spares are most critical and keeping spares up-to-date, organized and accessible.
By viewing talent as a supply chain in itself, the industry can more easily find and retain workers,
advance careers and lower the costs of education.
MRO goes beyond the maintenance or repair process and involves sourcing and procurement strategies to optimize money spent on operational tools, supplies and services.
MHMRO spends 60 seconds talking to a senior field service technician about the state of the industry.
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