Conger

MARCH 14, 2024

In this comprehensive guide, we will dive into everything you need to know about clamp trucks, including: What clamp trucks are and how they work Materials they can handle Types of clamp attachments and their uses Importance of clamp force control for stability And More! Let’s dive in!

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

Narrow Aisle Ltd – the VNA materials handling solutions specialist – recently hosted a series of distributor open days at its UK Flexi Truck manufacturing plant in Great Bridge, West Midlands. But lithium-ion technology is now regarded as ideally suited to the needs of modern, 24/7 logistics and e-fulfilment operations.”.

Manufacturing Procurement 59

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Conger

JULY 6, 2023

Develop Your Operator Trainer Course Materials: Per OSHA , the program must include practical (hands-on) training to know whether or not the operator has the required experience. These include compliance with OSHA standards 29 CFR 1910.178 (Powered industrial trucks) and 29 CFR 1926.602 (Material handling equipment).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

China, for example, only produces 14% of their total units, only 3% of those units end up being exported to the United States and 2% to EMEA. Much of the world’s fabric is produced in Asia, for example. TGW is their material handling supplier and Manhattan Associates is the warehouse management system supplier.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

This of course includes Europe and the UK, where the number of companies understanding the productive power and cost efficiency of these platforms is ramping up. Hikrobot, for example, will only release a solution to the market once it has completely verified its stability. Hikrobot’s first UK application is at Superdry.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The company’s IT solutions create demand for its automated materials handling products and vice-versa. This provides visibility, for example if there’s a blockage we stop the next process.” AI, of course, is high on the agenda. Another issue is the friction between WMS and TMS. Which has priority when an order comes in?”

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Sjoerd was even more of a techie than his father and shifted the company’s course towards mechanical engineering and construction. Meijer Handling Solutions specialises in the production of logistics solutions, such as attachment equipment for material handling equipment and standalone systems.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The UK Material Handling Association (UKMHA), the trade body representing all aspects of the UK’s material handling industry, has alerted lift truck operators to important changes in the permitted use of rebated fuels, such as red diesel. Community amateur sports clubs (CASC) and golf courses.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Boxes of Hope, a humanitarian aid charity that was established to send food, clothing, medicine and other essential items to the people of Ukraine following the country’s invasion by Russia, has taken delivery of a vinyl-wrapped forklift truck donated free-of-charge by Toyota Material Handling (TMH) UK Ltd. The forklift – a 2.5

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2018

In spring this year, the European Materials Handling Federation (FEM) called on students across Europe to develop ideas that help meet the challenges of the logistics sector. The winners of this young talent initiative, which is supported by Linde Material Handling, have now been announced.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Taking responsibility is a matter of course for the Hamburg-based intralogistics company. STILL has been actively involved in the fight against the Coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, for example with a special vaccination line for the workforce and donations of vehicles for system-relevant supply areas. .

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The company in this example has tailored its fulfilment concept precisely to these demands and implemented it with state-of-the-art technology from its long-term intralogistics partner SSI Schaefer. Example contents include headache pills, nasal sprays, and adhesive bandages.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Toyota Material Handling has announced that its top selling Tonero range of counterbalanced forklift trucks is now offered with newly-developed Stage V compliant diesel and LPG engines. Whereas many others choose to outsource the key aspect of engine development, Toyota is proud to develop and build lift truck engines in-house.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

It enables businesses to save up to two days per operator, per course, freeing-up Instructors to deliver more practical training. For example, pre-use inspections, load types, racking, and more. Reach truck and lift truck operator theory courses using eTruck can be booked via RTITB Accredited Training Providers.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 22, 2023

How, for example, must future user interfaces or tools be designed? For example, with our on-demand service tool WITOOL, the handling and documentation of all active and proactive service and maintenance work becomes much more transparent, both in terms of organization and execution. “The Technical” ergonomics is important.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For example, pedestrians getting in the way of the AGVs, or manual forklifts driving in areas originally planned primarily for the AGVs. Each datapoint will be an input and an expected output, so these pairs are examples to learn from. Can he offer examples of how insights can be generated from data in a logistics context?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The answer depends, of course, on your company’s objectives and, particularly, on your customer service promises. It’s a random approach in which, for example, a consignment of electric blenders might find a home in a storage location between bottles of shampoo on one side, and dog collars on the other.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

As part of this growth strategy, for example, new plants were recently commissioned in the Heilbronn/Heidelberg, Germany, area and in Georgia, United States.

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Conger

MAY 28, 2021

An example of a forklift certification card. Evaluation typically consists of obstacle courses, picking up sample loads, and in general, seeing how the operator trainee handles driving, turning, and reversing. Online courses. In-person courses. Online Courses. In-Person Courses. Training date.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 21, 2021

Covid-19 did of course present risks and challenges for training and assessment, but operators without the correct training also pose a serious danger to the supply chain.”. Selected eLearning courses are also available for Plant and LGV training. Statistics from RTITB show that Counterbalance Lift Truck Operator tests declined by 24.7%

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Seasoned managers who have had very successful careers making decisions about trucks and material handling equipment (MHE) are having to go out of their comfort zones to explore frighteningly complex technology and solutions. Let’s think of an imaginary example. For some, it’s a scary prospect. Where do they start?

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 11, 2023

First, of course, it is about the distribution centre and the number of pallets and customer orders that are handled every day. If they notice, for example, that suppliers use unnecessary overpack, then we immediately seek discussions with them. We have to re-define efficiency in the design phase with the customer.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 16, 2018

“It contributes to the natural hedging effect, and of course there are also important advantages regarding savings, for example on logistics costs. Transportation costs are a significant factor, as are the carrying costs for material on sea containers.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 21, 2022

There were 10 fatal injuries in 2020/21 – a period that of course includes the Covid pandemic – which compares with the annual average number of 13 fatalities for 2016/17-2020/21. An iFollow robot, for example, analyses its situation in real time to avoid obstacles or even overtake slower vehicles. The fatal injury rate (0.85

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

MV: Of course! MV: The price is of course an important factor for many of our customers, even if it is not fundamental. MV: Of course, these negotiations are very individual. For example, we provided one of our customers with a forklift truck on loan to cover their production peaks, and offered them a 2.5-tonne

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

Specific aspects of warehouse safety include: Material handling equipment operation and maintenance. Ergonomic handling and movement of goods. We’ll talk more about specific risks later in the article, but briefly, warehouse workers commonly face hazards associated with: Forklifts and other material handling equipment.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

Q: Can you give some specific examples? Spatially constrained warehouses in urban environments, for example, rely on high scalability of picking systems. BB: But if course on the customer! We began to identify opportunities to address new problems that had come up. Most definitely not on technology implementation as such.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Q: Can you give some specific examples? Spatially constrained warehouses in urban environments, for example, rely on high scalability of picking systems. A: But of course on the customer! We began to identify opportunities to address new problems that had come up. Most definitely not on technology implementation as such.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Even in ancient times, wood-fired beacons kept seafarers on course. There are also a number of examples in our everyday life that illustrate the great advantage of easy-to-understand signals: A red traffic light, the horn of a car or the siren of a fire engine.

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Material Handling and Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2018

For example, a public warehouse forklift user could be charged a fee of $3.75/ton ton for movements from storage to staging and loading of a vehicle; the fee would be directly aligned with their handling charge of $4.50/ton Solutions are supplied to maintain (i.e., break/fix) and improve (i.e., upgrade) a machine’s capability (i.e.,

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

For another, knowledge is lost over the years when, for example, the IT experts who still know how to work with the programming languages C and C++ retire. These days, users can zoom in down to the system’s sensor level to find defective components, for example. Of course they have to budget for it.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

Each of these areas can of course stand alone; however, when combined, they provide an incredible advantage. For example, the KiSoft software configures the AMRs, so they go where they are needed, and also trains the KNAPP Pick-it-Easy Robot picking robots so they continually improve. This is exactly the combination KNAPP focuses on.

Modeling Software 56

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 10, 2022

“These are interesting, for example, in indoor logistics when integrating driverless transport systems. For example, digital twins of the environment are created that process relevant information in real time. STILL is, of course, one of the participants.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 25, 2016

Some argue sustainability initiatives are solely the result of increasing government regulations, but Modern Materials Handling Staff reports another cause, consumers. In another example, Hong Kong began switching conventional traffic lighting to more energy efficient LED traffic lighting.

Material Savings 59

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In addition, several retailers found that holiday sales were spread out across a longer timescale — for example, JD Sports reportedly commented that higher rates of inflation had prompted customers to buy sooner. However, it’s essential to note that there is no one-size-fits-all automation solution to a warehouse’s demand pressures.

Automation 48

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

“We may not be on site at the customers’ premises right now, but we can still support them, for example with our BEUMER Smart Glasses,” says the cement expert. What happens if for example a packaging system in Indonesia or Peru fails? “Because different materials also have different calorific values.”

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Waste Reduction Material Savings Waste Cost Reduction 74

Now, That's Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2019

Of course, keeping up with those order volumes on the manufacturing side isn’t easy. “We’ve seen tremendous growth in the pure volume of product that’s going through our facilities,” says Michael Schoenfeld, Senior Vice President, Contract Logistics – USA, for DB Schenker.

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