A new report predicts the market for fuel cells will triple in three years. The question for material handlers is whether they'll play a part in that action.
The iForks Touch, combined with a touch screen indicator and built-in RFID-scanner, enables identification and weighing of pallets as part of the normal material flow. The forklift driver does not need to get off the truck to scan a pallet ID, and detours for weighing on a floor scale can be eliminated. This also enables tracking & tracing of pallets throughout a supply chain....More
Larson Electronics’ 48 watt LED wobble light (WBL-4X4LED-100-X24I) contains four LED light heads that produce 720 lumens. The combined 48 watt illumination draws only 2 amps from a 24 volt DC power source....More
Balluff’s BVS Universal Vision Sensor offers 360° part position detection, defect finding, contour based counting and matching, bar code reading (linear and 2D DM) and OCV. It also includes a serial port and digital I/O. The 360° algorithm provides the performance of vision systems, but in a simpler, smaller package and at a lower price....More
Meese Orbitron Dunne Co. now offers a rugged, rotationally molded plastic recycling cart base as standard on its 50P-16R recycling cart. The base is rotomolded in one piece from 100% waterproof polyethylene, offering load bearing strength and rigidity comparable to metal bases yet without rust, corrosion or discoloration....More
Motion Industries has released a new video in its “MiHow2” series called “Overload Protection for Production Machines with the Shock Relay.” The shock relay detects a problem before damage is done to the equipment, reducing or avoiding downtime.
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Insanity is repeating the same mistakes but expecting different outcomes. This approach to forklift fleet management keeps money flowing to OSHA....More
Overall, confidence of key executives in the $827 billion equipment finance sector remains where it was last month—at 65.1, the highest index level in two years, according to the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation’s Monthly Confidence...More
Atlanta is the least-costly location to do business among the 31 largest U.S. metro areas, according to a KPMG study measured 26 key cost components in each market. Furthermore, Atlanta has the lowest transportation and factory lease costs, and the lowest effective corporate income tax rate of any large U.S. city. The Southeast region of the U.S....More
A new report predicts the market for fuel cells will triple in three years. The question for material handlers is whether they'll play a part in that action.
What is a supply chain manager worth in today's market? Dave Blanchard, editorial director of MH&L, reviews highlights of the 2014 Supply Chain Salary Survey.
In honor of Cal Poly State University's annual egg drop competition, where student engineers try to design a package that will help an egg survive a 30-foot fall, we’ve assembled a video gallery of stupid human tricks. We begin with the inventor of Stupid Human Tricks, David Letterman, in a clip from his old Late Night show from the late 80s.
