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Deloitte: Aftermarket services transforming manufacturing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
High-margin, stable revenues from aftermarket services may help buoy manufacturers’ performance.

16th annual Cat Lift Trucks educational scholarship awarded to Houston area high school senior
Sherrod Session plans to attend University of Texas at Austin driven by the belief that "promoting entrepreneurship is the key to upward mobility.”

Jonathan Dawley appointed president and CEO of KION North America
Executive with years of technical experience in the capital goods industry tasked with developing industrial trucks and services business in North America.

Warehouse with a life-saving mission
In Jacksonville, Coca-Cola Florida had just opened an upgraded high-density overflow warehouse when it took on a mission never imagined during its design—supplying beverages for a pandemic. Preparedness and simplicity are key to its success under dire circumstances.

A system of reality for the new normal
Visibility is essential for control, especially when disruption threatens to leave operations powerless.

Other Voices: Life after COVID-19 will require new thinking for new realities
Renewable diesel alternatives can be integrated into existing systems and equipment to reduce carbon emissions for heavy-duty fleets.

Other Voices: Know your barriers
The Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA) advises professionals in industrial facilities to recognize the importance of selecting fit-for-purpose guardrails.

Conveyco and Exotec announce strategic partnership
Exotec's goods-to-person solution combines autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) with a high-density automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS).

ISM: April non-manufacturing data sees steep declines due to COVID-19
The report’s key indicator, the NMI, fell 10.7% to 41.8, coming off of March’s 52.5 reading, which stands as the highest reading in the last year. It is the lowest reading since the 40.1 recorded in March 2009 and contracted for the first time since December 2009, halting a 122-month stretch of growth.

Benchmarking study examines Industry 4.0 in consumer packaged goods manufacturing
SmarterChains releases first-of-its kind study of 336,000 data points across 500 evolving technologies to help manufacturers and global supply chain professionals accelerate digital transformations, adopt new technologies, drive automation and data exchange, and unlock value.

Other Voices: In times of social distancing, essential businesses turn to autonomous robots
Warehousing, logistics, and manufacturing companies look to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to operate efficiently while maintaining the social distancing guidelines.

60 Seconds with John M. Hill (Updated 2024)
Modern was able to sit down with John M. Hill to discuss the industry and other matters.

Other Voices: Balancing demand for faster and cheaper delivery in a socially responsible way
Social responsibility encompasses automation, green shipping, improving last-mile delivery, maintaining a positive workplace and more efficient planning.

Combilift does the heavy lifting to ease worldwide ventilator shortage
Completed in five weeks, the project is the result of a collaboration between the engineering and manufacturing industry and the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE).

Updated Q2 Economic Outlook: Severe declines in equipment and software investment, GDP
ELFF report: Materials handling equipment investment likely to remain negative, all other industrial equipment investment growth likely to contract.

UPS launches smart warehouse technology
UPS and supply chain solutions provider Softeon created the WES which allows UPS to define specific customer requirements to ensure highest priority orders are worked first without manual intervention, resulting in more than 50% productivity gains for some customers.

Benchmark Your Performance, Then Optimize
Are you monitoring the right metrics to gauge the success of your operation?

CEMA reports February orders up 8.4% from January
February shipments up almost 22% when compared to January 2020 billed sales.

Equipment leasing and finance industry confidence plummets in April from impact of Covid-19
While optimistic for a ‘V’ shaped economic cycle if the health crisis is first solved, some fear a prolonged shutdown will create business failures, more unemployment and unprecedented losses in the equipment finance industry and beyond.

Manufacturers release ‘American Renewal Action Plan’
National Association of Manufacturers' plan outlines three phases: response, recovery and renewal.


May 2024 Modern Materials Handling

A complete modernization of the sortation and conveyance at Boscov’s DC, along with updated software and a new order processing area, have transformed the ability of the department store chain’s DC to move more cartons in less time, while permitting more frequent replenishment shipment for stores.
 


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