The supply chain is often viewed as a consumer of cash—at the supplier level, in transit, in production facilities and in warehouses. Companies continually wish to reduce the amount of inventory in their operations.
If parents would take the time to break down the 5S process for their kids it might be easier to get them to clean their rooms. 5S provides an easy way to get over the biggest hurdle to a project: getting started....More
Congress passed and President Obama signed the Drug Quality and Security Act (Public Law 113-54) on November 27th. It contains provisions for tracing pharmaceuticals in the supply chain and creates a uniform, national licensing standard for wholesale distributors and third-party logistics providers to safeguard the pharmaceutical distribution system....More
Retailers focusing on beefing up their social media presence without strengthening their logistics abilities to deliver on their heightened image will hurt their market reputation, according to findings of a GT Nexus online survey, conducted in association with global polling company YouGov....More
Plants and warehouses typically combine large square footage with very high ceilings, making their interiors hard to illuminate. That’s why metal halide lighting, with its high potential power output, is the preferred type of lighting system used....More
There was good news and bad in the recently revised growth rate for the third quarter GDP number. The second-round estimate took that figure from 2.8% to 3.6%. The reason this growth isn’t all good is that it comes from a rise in inventories, according to Lindsey M. Piegza, managing director and chief economist for Sterne Agee....More
DAP’s 7-inch ultra-rugged tablets—M9010 and M9020—are built with multiple comfort grips, right or left handed use, and for operation with gloved or bare hands on touchscreen or the QWERTY keyboard available on M9020. The industrial-reinforced glass-on-glass touchscreen automatically switches from landscape to portrait view based on how the user is holding the tablet....More
Air Technical Industries’ Heavy Die & Mold Installation and Retrieval System is self-loading and unloading and is capable of helping one person install heavy dies into a press. This will eliminate injuries from pushing, flexing, stretching, reaching, etc. This design features two short arms and two long arms to do the pushing and pulling with just a press of the button....More
Creform Corporation’s mobile, four-sided, rotating information kiosk can be used to share information such as business metrics, HR postings, safety info, quality documents, ISO procedures or Kanban inventory control information. The flexible communications centers are built to withstand the rigors of plant floor environments yet their appearance fits aesthetically with most office d...More
Larson Electronics’ Magnalight LEDT8-28W-V1 28 watt LED 4-foot replacement lamp can be used to upgrade existing T8 fluorescent fixtures to LEDs. It requires no ballast for operation. The polycarbonate lens diffuses the light and makes this bulb suitable for food safe environments since there is no glass....More
A new warehouse scheduled for startup in 2015 will be capable of shipping 200,000 items per day with the help of KNAPP’s e-commerce solution with...More
Dr. Capt. John A.C. Cartner, maritime piracy expert, speaks with Maritime TV regarding possible scenarios that took place in the kidnapping of the Captain and Chief Engineer of the M/V C-Retriever in Nigeria’s Gulf of Guinea.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos told 60 Minutes that in a few years his company will be using drones to deliver packages to consumers within a half-hour from one of his fulfillment centers.
Here's a tour of material handling solutions OEMs are now introducing to the marketplace. Click through this selection to find the innovations that best suit your needs.
