Conveyors and sortations before were the only material handling equipment that was automated. Nowadays, there are a lot more equipment that provides easy functionality for everyone, but still feels necessity for conveyors. For example, a goods-to-person solution for picking requires conveyors to be able to deliver products from storage and send them to picking stations, … Read more
The Voluntary Inter-industry Commerce Solutions or VICS Association stated that a fresh new guideline assists material handling companies to build a model of their own business that links the consumers to factories. The association’s Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment or CPFR guideline includes steps on how the trading partners can perform better business management processes … Read more
Akro-Mils a popular North American supplier of organization, storage and transport products recently donated $1,000 worth of platform cart to Mercy Ships, a charity organization which gives surgical procedures for free to different patients in West Africa. Chief steward Peter Koontz of ‘Africa Mercy’ which is the world’s biggest charity hospital ship, stated that the … Read more
Material handling equipment such as pallet jacks or sometimes called pallet trucks or pump trucks is an equipment used for moving and lifting an object on a pallet. Pallet jacks are of two types: manual pallet jack and powered pallet jack. The use of materials handling equipment like pallet jacks can make work easier and quicker. … Read more
