Crown Equipment

Annual summit includes all-day tour for Fisher College of Business researchers and industry leaders.

Crown invited me to its flagship service center outside Chicago for a demonstration of their operator and technician training programs. Prepared for plenty of PowerPoints and goofy videos, I instead experienced two full days of hands-on, grease-covered, eye-opening and tremendously exciting education.

A goods-to-person picking solution moved AcuSport from conventional to automated DC processes. The result is lower fulfillment costs and better customer service.

AcuSport’s new distribution center features multiple picking methodologies designed to lower the cost of the company’s auto-replenishment program.

Fleet costs don’t stop at the purchase price, and expanded collaboration between fleet managers, dealers and finance partners is changing the way fleet costs are managed over time.

Employing 23 people, the new location provides products, service and maintenance and technician and operator training.

High-fashion, e-commerce company automated fulfillment to meet the next-day shipping challenge.

The compact system processes nearly 2,000 orders a day in 20,000 square feet.

New fleet maintenance practices see users and service providers working together to identify and reduce each lift truck’s total cost of ownership.

Today’s highly automated systems demand technicians with new skills and new training. The industry is beginning to respond.

Large consumer packaged goods customer approves 24-volt packs for use in Class III pallet jacks.

The former Boesel Opera House, originally built in 1895, previously housed a bar and restaurant and was gutted by a fire in 2012.

Increased visibility into every lift truck’s costs is promoting accountability for operators, managers and service providers.

Team collaborates with several partners to recycle and re-purpose materials.

An estimated 250 technicians are to complete a two-week training program within the first year.