Topic: Features

Children’s Hospital Colorado installs horizontal carousels to ease growing pain in its stockroom.

Lift truck capacity ratings are often misunderstood by owners, operators and even salespeople.

Modern spends 60 seconds learning more about the Georgia Association for Career and Technical Education.

Grady Health System invested in on-site warehouse racking to bring paper record file storage back in house. The result was reduced costs, optimized logistics and improved patient care.

Last year, executive editor Bob Trebilcock launched a series of feature articles that we titled “The Big Picture: Where business meets materials handling.” This series has allowed us to break out of the traditional “how-to” and “case study” mold to offer an objective, broad-sweeping look at how materials handling technologies and best practices are affecting overall business strategy.

The 6th Annual Warehouse and Distribution Center (DC) Operations Survey findings reveal that inventory turns are not improving, more DCs are closing rather than opening, and many companies are remaining cautious with equipment investment.

On its Iowa manufacturing campus, John Deere is using AGVs to move tractor cabs down the assembly line. The result has been savings in labor, a safer work environment and improved quality.

Automatic guided vehicles move tractor cabs through the production line at John Deere’s Waterloo plant.

Efficiency in the warehouse has traditionally driven the distribution process. Now, some leading retailers are looking at the DC to lower the cost of operating their stores.

Today’s supply chain execution software applications are evolving, adding functionality and enabling operations to function more effectively.

Enterprise-level supply chain software solutions give an operation the tools to create and test effective business strategies and plan ahead by incorporating commands for necessary preemptive strikes.

Going green isn’t going away: It’s a permanent and increasingly important part of the global business landscape—and that includes materials handling.

A microbrewer with major appeal installs robust end-of-the-line palletizer that satisfies a round of palletizing specs.

Moving away from a manual palletizing process and installing a robotic solution was good for Greif.

Specially designed cold storage lift trucks take a bite out of historic productivity drains.

Modern spends 60 seconds talking with John Nofsinger, outgoing CEO of the Material Handling Industry of America.

Our 2011 findings reveal that inventory turns are not improving, more DCs are closing rather than opening, and many companies are remaining cautious with equipment investment.

Light-directed pick carts offer operational flexibility, boosting picking rates 400%.

In-hospital DC improves efficiency and speed with minimal interruption.