Dan M Keeping your work space organized — whether it is a retail operation, a warehouse or a manufacturing facility — is the best way to increase efficiency, reduce costs and boost productivity. A messy, disorganized work area will result in messy, disorganized work, which in the long run will cost you money. The key to keeping … Read more
Intelligrated, an automated material handling solutions provider based in Mason, Ohio, announced that it is planning to open a sales and engineering office in Shanghai, China. The purpose of the new office is to “strengthen local partnerships and connect regional customers with best-of-breed automation and software solutions to increase operational efficiency,” according to a company … Read more
Two of the nation’s fastest-growing transportation third-party logisitics service providers have announced that they are merging. Chicago-based Coyote Logistics is combining its forces with Access America Transport, which is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Terms of the deal were not made public. Coyote, which posted earnings of $559 million in 2011, specializes in the brokerage of … Read more
CeMAT 2014, Europe’s largest materials handling trade show, will be held in Hanover, Germany, from May 29 until May 23, show organizers announced in a news release. The expo is expected to attract more than 1,000 exhibitors from 40 nations and will occupy nearly 1.3 million square feet of exhibition space. The theme of this … Read more
Because of emerging technologies, information technology is expected to play a more central role in streamlining warehouse operations over the next four years, according to a new white paper released recently by Motorola. Entitled “From Cost Center to Growth Center: Warehousing 2018”, the report outlines the ways warehouse strategies will turn to multi-modal data collection … Read more
President Barack Obama announced that the US Department of Defense has teamed up with a consortium of businesses and universities to build a new Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation (DMDI) Institute in Chicago’s inner city Goose Island neighborhood. The is led by UI Labs and includes 73 companies, nonprofits, research labs and others to create … Read more
FMC Technologies — the Chalfont, Pennsylvania, based provider of technological solutions for the energy industry — announced in a news release that it was divesting itself of its materials handling business to Syntron Material Handling, LLC, an affiliate of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners. FMC’s materials handling business, which is based in Tupelo, Mississippi, makes a … Read more
Despite global economic and political uncertainty and tepid confidence levels among US consumers and investors, the materials handling industry is expected to show moderate growth over the next two years, according to a report issued earlier this month. MHI, one of the material handling industry’s leading trade groups, released its State of the Industry report … Read more
Here’s a sneak preview of some of the articles you will find on the Bahrns blog this week: The short-term growth rate for the material handling industry looks bright with some analysts predicting expansion of 7 to 10%. What will that mean for your business? Plus, do you like high-tech gadgets such as smartphones and … Read more
Buildings that can repair themselves after earthquakes? Ships that can repair their own hulls in the event of a breach? Houses that can paint themselves? All of these technologies may be a reality in the near future as scientists and researchers prepare to bring these types of 21st Century materials to the marketplace. In the … Read more
