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Promote occupational safety this week By Staff, 5/5/2008
Our editors provide some suggested reading for North American Occupational Safety and Health Week 2008. More
Pallet manufacturers By Corinne Kator, Associate Editor - 05/01/2008
Learn which manufacturers produce the types of pallets you may need or use.
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Pallet lingo By Corinne Kator, Associate Editor - 05/01/2008
Pallets, the base of most modern materials handling systems, do more than carry loads. Applied correctly, they can also protect their loads—as well as the supply chains through which they travel.
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Fuel cells meet AGVs By Corinne Kator, Associate Editor - 05/01/2008
Fuel cells have been making news in the lift truck industry for several years, and now they're being implemented as a power source for automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) as well. FMC Technologies (www.fmctechnologies.com) is preparing to install two different fleets of AGVs powered by two different types of fuel cells: one with hydrogen-based fuel cells from Plug Power (www.
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NA08 offers ideas for going green By Corinne Kator, Associate Editor - 05/01/2008
Attendees of NA 2008 in Cleveland last month may not have been overwhelmed with new ideas for making their facilities environmentally friendly, but this year's show did include more “green”-themed exhibits than ever before. Perusing the show aisles revealed numerous technologies for reducing packaging material and saving energy in distribution and manufacturing facilities.
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Lift truck tips: Narrow aisle forklifts By Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief - 05/01/2008
To make best use of narrow aisle forklifts, operators need skills above and beyond those required to master sit-down counterbalanced trucks. Keep the following tips in mind. Material in this column courtesy of: Jim Shephard, president of Shephard’s Industrial Training Systems, jimshephard@shephardsystems.
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On Your Worst Behavior Frank, Modern's resident expert on imperfection, April 29, 2008 Deflating windbags
You can be the smartest guy in the world, but go into a warehouse and, believe me, fo... More
Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling April 28, 2008 Problems in gaining counterweight
Any time a writer receives reader input, whether critical or complimentary, it’... More
Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling April 24, 2008 Build your own lifeboat
The NA2008 Material Handling Show is over, but its memory lingers on. Good ones too. ... More
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