February 1, 2010
Features
ECO-LABELING: Green or Smokescreen?
Inflated claims are everywhere, and they can derail your company's sustainability efforts. Here's how to ensure your investments support green goals...
Emissions Regulation: A New Era Dawns
Whether by the hands of Congress or the EPA, regulations on carbon emissions loom in the near future for material handlers. Here's how some companies are mobilizing...
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News Beat
Groups Propose Standards for Sustainable Packaging
Material handling and consumer goods companies are leading worldwide efforts to define sustainable transport packaging...
Transport Packaging
Paper or Plastic: A Fresh Look at Protective Packaging
Packaging should ensure your product arrives at its destination in the same condition it was in when it left your facility...
How to Prevent a Lamp from Breaking
Proper packaging of fluorescent lamps can help prevent hazardous mercury vapor emissions...
Facilities
Combustible Dust: What You Need to Know
The fact that more than 280 dust-related explosions or fires have occurred in the past 25 years, resulting in 119 fatalities and more than 700 injuries, has not gone unnoticed by regulatory agencies...
High-Intensity Savings
A facility lighting retrofit helped a supplier of healthcare products reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cut electric bills and gain tax credits...
Powered Vehicles
Automated Lift Trucks On the Double
To stay competitive, distribution centers (DCs) need to reduce costs while addressing numerous other challenges, such as increased numbers of smaller...
Automation
Working Smarter With What You Have
DCs can increase productivity while still scaling back operations to meet business needs....
Technology
Customizing Industrial Computers for Your Environment
An industrial computer that works reliably can help improve workforce productivity and efficiency...
Insights
In Memoriam: Bernard Ignatius Knill
Bernie Knill, longtime chief editor of this publication, passed away last month after a brief illness. Below are some reminiscences from friends, family...
Remembering a Champion
An editor who hasn't found a cause in his or her industry just isn't looking hard enough. -Bernie Knill Being a cynic is easy. Spouting off from a distance...
Cracking the Whip on the Economy
The bullwhip effect has begun, but it will take time for inventories and jobs to recover fully...
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2012 Top 10 Predictions for the Supply Chain in 2012
2012 will see the consumer take a more prominent role in directing the course of supply chain management, as volatile demand has become the new norm.
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