Topic: Features

Modern spends 60 seconds talking to Daniel Stanton at MHI about education and professional development.

If training is seen as a one-time event, lift truck fleet owners can expect incidents to occur more than once.

Right-sized carton system speeds throughput amid rapid growth of e-commerce orders.

The 2015 Casebook features 40 case studies that put the spotlight on successful innovation projects.

U.S. News & World Report ranks Michigan State as the top school for Supply Chain Management and Georgia Tech first for Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering on this year's lists.

Most of us think of automation as only for the big guys. A dietary supplement start-up is turning that idea on its head with carousels, robotic extractors and goods-to-person picking.

Automation fills orders accurately and efficiently in DrVita’s warehouse.

For years the materials handling industry has focused on providing great solutions for its customers. Maintenance services are the next area of focus.

As software interfaces and vehicle components improve, users of automatic guided vehicles are becoming less reliant on others to use and maintain their own fleets.

TMS and YMS expand on integration and supply chain visibility capabilities, gaining a better handle on warehouse constraints in the process.

As customer expectations parallel those in retail, industrial distributors are breaking out of traditional solutions to meet the e-commerce challenge.

Modern spends 60 seconds talking to Ed Frazelle about inventory strategy.

Location system boosts dock door utilization while eliminating manual checks in the yard for NYK Logistics.

Hopewell Logistics establishes and maintains standards with mobile dashboards and real-time visibility.

Blended with light-directed picking, voice picking supports peak season and variable SKU locations for Internet retailer.

This month in Modern, Trebilcock gives us his next Big Picture, one that represents a logical progression based on automation’s unmistakable importance in our new world. He digs into the emerging best practice of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) in materials handling.

Taller and smarter narrow aisle lift trucks help operators navigate threats to productivity.

Modern's annual lift truck issue takes a look at how CN manages mobile crane maintenance, the Top 20 lift truck suppliers, a look at the results of our annual reader survey, a state of the fuel cell market, and more.

Canada’s largest rail operator has developed a new parts management and maintenance program to reduce the downtime of mobile cranes at its intermodal terminals.

Our list grows top heavy following another big merger, but after a year of relative calm, the market is heating up once again.