Industrial Technology

Risk Management a Finger-Pointing Contest

Businesses and their suppliers remain unclear as to where the responsibility for risk management and due diligence in outsourcing arrangements lies in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, according to a new survey by international legal practice Norton Rose Group....

Delayed Metrics Visibility Inhibits Improvements

In most manufacturing companies, employees do not have visibility into performance to change outcomes during their work shift, or even at the end of it, according to Tony Christian, director of Cambashi, an industrial research firm. ...

Colman Roche Joins Sapient Automation as Exec VP

Colman Roche has been named executive vice president at Sapient Automation. Roche will be responsible for leading multiple facets and areas within Sapient Automation while implementing automated storage and retrieval material handling systems....

Signs of Strength, Weakness in 2011

Some of the largest U.S. banks have increased their lending to companies, according to researchers at Moody's Analytics. The Wall Street Journal reports this is a sign that hiring may be around the corner, as a percentage of loans normally goes to business expansion...

Growth Expected for Material Handling Equipment

Hal Vandiver, executive vice president of business development for Material Handling Industry of America, delivered an economic outlook for the material handling sector at the recent ProMat 2011 Show Pro event in Atlanta. His assessment was a mix of optimism and caution...

Truck Routing Via iPhone

ALK Technologies offers CoPilot Live Truck for the iPhone, a voice-guided GPS navigation app designed specifically for professional truck drivers. Available immediately to download from the iTunes App Store, the new app makes truck-specific GPS navigation more portable and affordable than dedicated navigation devices...

Pre-Training Saves Time and Money

Local community colleges and voc-ed schools can be your connection to a skilled, dependable workforce...

Teklogix opens innovation pool

Psion Teklogix, Inc., Psion Teklogixa global provider of mobile computing solutions, introduced a global Partner Program that opens opportunities for its value-added resellers, systems integrators, application providers and hardware partners to co-create mobile hardware, software and services. The program will combine the best of existing mobile devices with customized proprietary devices. It also combines discounts, marketing materials and funds, technical support and training...

Dematic opens European Technology Center

Dematic, supplier of logistics systems for the factory, warehouse and the distribution center, has opened a new Technology Center in Europe. The new site, located near Frankfurt, Germany, is a logistics solution demonstration facility. It features multiple integrated material handling solutions including goods to person order selection, mixed case palletizing, automated storage buffers, and load sequencing...

Improve Supply Chain Execution with Better Technology

The importance of information to the success of supply chains is stronger than ever given economic conditions. Information is what links every node and enterprise of a supply chain. And that's where supply chain execution software and related data capture technologies come into the picture...

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