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Detroit Diesel: Reinventing heavy duty manufacturing By Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large, 10/1/2008
Last October Detroit Diesel, a division of Daimler, unveiled the DD15—a new heavy-duty diesel engine ready to set new efficiency standards for the industry. The engine manufacturer spent five years and $1.5 billion to develop the new 6-cylinder engine, which displaces 14.8 liters and is available in all Daimler Trucks North America products. More
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.
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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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Detroit Diesel: Moving parts with tuggers By Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large - 10/01/2008
Detroit Diesel's materials handling processes for the new heavy-duty diesel engine, the DD15, were designed to reduce the travel distance between the receiving docks and the storage area, minimize the amount of space required for storage, and support production to minimize the amount of non value-added work.
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Information management: When outsiders become insiders By Tom Andel, Editor-in-Chief - 10/01/2008
Indeed, the priorities of managers responsible for order fulfillment have changed in recent years. Time is critical, and every second of downtime is costly. Part of this is a return-on-investment (ROI) issue, as well.
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Order picking basics By Allison Manning, Associate Editor - 10/01/2008
The most basic type of picking is manual picking, also known as man-to-part picking, where the picker travels to the item. There are several methods to accomplish man-to-part picking as well as several technologies that enable the different processes.
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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
Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling September 24, 2008 Time to face the What-Ifs
It’s been a couple weeks since The Material Handling Industry of America had it... 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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