Topic: Features

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.

With plans to buy a total of more than 1,100 lift trucks in coming months, readers share their perspectives on spending, maintenance practices and technology usage.

With use by Walmart, BMW and other large, 24/7 facility operators, hydrogen-powered lift trucks are proven at the higher end of the market, but can they catch on elsewhere? Fuel cell providers are betting that turnkey, streamlined offerings will help.

Once seen as a necessary evil, lift truck maintenance costs prove ripe for efficiencies that save money and boost productivity.

Modern spends 60 seconds talking to the chairman of the Industrial Truck Association and president & CEO of Linde Material Handling North America about the future of the lift truck industry.

Direct-to-consumer marketer optimizes order picking through gradual automation.

Totes securely hold 19% more small and large parts while improving flexibility in carousel.

Bins replace shelves, drawers and cardboard boxes to standardize storage for large and small parts.

VLMs for parts storage and kit sequencing prevent production stoppages and inventory shrinkage.

Aligning purchasing and operations yields savings and enhanced productivity.

Automatic vehicle restraint, dock leveler and comprehensive communication system replace manual processes at the dock.