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Conveyors: Booked orders hold steady By Staff, 10/10/2008
After significant movement from May through July, the August conveyor booked orders index dropped just 3% from July. More
Energy trends excite lift truck suppliers By Tom Andel, Editor in chief - 10/06/2008
Tax incentives and technology advancements gave members of the Industrial Truck Association a reason to be optimistic about the future.
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Lift truck tips: Lease or buy? By Tom Andel, Editor In Chief - 10/01/2008
Some companies don’t want to tie up capital. The idea of having fixed monthly payments appeals to them. Others prefer to buy equipment. They’ll maintain it until every penny of its cost is returned—and then some. Here are other guidelines to consider when making the lease vs. buy decision.
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Forklift jockey whams LeBron James By Staff - 10/01/2008
Warehouse worker David Kalb of La Habra, Calif., won the opportunity to face NBA star LeBron James at a game of H-O-R-S-E, by uploading a video of his trick shot—throwing a basketball against a wall to bounce back and land in the net of a hoop attached to the mast of a spinning forklift. The judges of LeBron's Trick Shot Challenge, sponsored by Cub Cadet, included Kalb on their list of f...
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Top 20 automatic data capture (ADC) suppliers By Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large - 10/01/2008
The market for industrial automatic data capture (ADC) systems in 2007 could best be summed up as “steady as she goes.” The ADC market includes handheld and stationary bar code scanning and imaging devices, bar code printers, consumables like bar code labels and RFID tags, RFID solutions for the supply chain, and rugged mobile computing solutions for the factory and warehouse.
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Productivity Solution: Gatorade chooses plastic pallets By Allison Manning, Associate Editor - 10/01/2008
Gatorade's wooden pallets needed constant repair. It turned to a plastic pallet (iGPS, 800-884-0225, www.iGPS.net), which rented for the same amount as the wooden pallets. After a six-month feasibility trial on the plant's 32-ounce line of beverages in July 2007, an immediate improvement was seen in the way the pallets reacted to the plant's almost 25-year-old palletizers.
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Toyota Material Handling announces new president By Tom Andel, Editor in chief - 10/01/2008
After nearly a decade as president of Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Shankar Basu is stepping into the role of chairman and CEO of the company. He hands the reigns of president over to Brett Wood, formerly the company's vice president of marketing. Toyota is No. 1 in Modern's annual ranking of lift truck suppliers.
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Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling October 1, 2008 Your work force is your life force
Hard costs get our attention. Those are the ones with a clear price tag. In a way, th... More
On Your Worst Behavior Frank, Modern's resident expert on imperfection, September 30, 2008 Tell me an ending
Materials handling has a feature role in another big box office flick that just came ... More
On Your Worst Behavior Frank, Modern's resident expert on imperfection, September 16, 2008 Your work on display
Let's face it. When you're neat, lean and clean, you're more successful. I know-... More
Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling September 12, 2008 MH vendors learning to be labor enablers
When members of the Material Handling Industry of America convene for their Spring an... More
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