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How to Tell If Your Forklift Tires Need to Be Replaced

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Unlike cars and trucks, material handling equipment such as forklifts, power jacks and other heavy machinery don’t typically have suspensions. As a result, their tires take the full brunt of every impact, bump and scrape, causing them to deteriorate faster than car or truck tires. So how can you tell when your tires need to be … Read more

Toyota Material Handling Europe Going Paperless

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Toyota Material Handling Europe is the leading provider of warehouse and forklift equipment who have selected OB10, the global e-Invoicing network to bring the benefits of invoice automation to its community of suppliers. The network moderates the invoice-to-pay process and provides straight-through processing and prompt payment for suppliers. Toyota Material Handling Europe is focusing on … Read more

Hoists and Balancers Purpose

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hoists and balancersHoists and balancers are attachments for bridge cranes and other material handling equipment that are used to lift heavy loads. Relatively simple in design, they provide stability and increased mobility and come in a wide range of capacities and can be used for a variety of purposes.

A hoist consists of a power source, a drive mechanism that turns a lift wheel or sprocket, and a length of chain or wire rope, known as the lift media. When power is supplied to the hoist, the drive mechanism turns the sprocket, which retrieves or extends the lift media. This, then, raises or lowers the payload. In most cases, the up and down functions are controlled by a hand-held pendant with buttons or levels for each direction.

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Deal Struck with Overseas Material Handling Company

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Kalmar, a division of Cargotec, has recently been awarded an order to supply of 20 reachstackers and 20 forklift trucks for Pacific Materials Handling; which is one of their primary retailers. The order will be delivered during Cargotec’s 2013 second quarter. The delivery is scheduled for quarter three in 2013. This order will dramatically increase … Read more

Superlift Material Handling Offers 30,000 Pallet Truck

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Company SuperLift of Ontario, Canada is offering a new pallet truck weighing in at 30,000 pounds, referencing a super heavy duty pallet truck. Superlift Material Handling is a manufacturer of custom lift equipment. With this expansion of their pallet truck product line and will be able to accept orders of up to 30,000 lbs capacity. … Read more

Increasing Warehouse Space for Less, Part 3

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how work platforms can make your facility more efficientEditor’s Note: This is the last in a series of blogs examining the benefits of work platforms in warehouse and manufacturing facilities.

Work platforms offer warehouse operators a fast, efficient and affordable way to increase their existing warehouse storage space. But they also can be used for a wide variety of operations.

Picking operations, value-added services, sorting systems, slow-moving inventory storage, fast-response processing and other functions can all be facilitated by work platforms. That’s because they offer the full functionality of new construction or the addition of a mezzanine or other renovations to existing facilities without the expense or downtime.

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Clean Energy Fuels BMW’s Forklift Fleet

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With Plug Power’s recent expansion with BMW Manufacturing Co., has brought its clean energy fleet to 275 units. Thus, making it the largest fleet in North America. BMW Manufacturing Co. has a firm commitment to being economically friendly, as well as improving and incorporating modern technology in its production processes. In 2003, BMW equipped more … Read more

Mobile Robots Make Warehouse Ops Cheaper and More Efficient

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mobile robots for warehousesMobile robots have been used in manufacturing for decades, but thanks to their shrinking costs and the needs for businesses to increase efficiencies and lower expenses, they are starting to appear more frequently in warehouse and distribution applications.

Corey Ryan, medical account manager for KUKA Robotics, based in Shelby Township, Michigan, said that in recent years robots have been showing up in more and more businesses, not just manufacturing.

“We increased interest in mobile robotics across all industries,” Ryan told the website Robotics Online. “The ability of one mobile robot to service several locations and perform a greatly expanded  range of task offers a great appeal for specialized applications.”

Giant Eagle Uses Robots to Cut Warehouse Costs

One success story is Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle, a leading supermarket chain that operates in four Eastern states. The company currently is using pallet-handling mobile robots in its 440,000-square-foot food  distribution center outside of Pittsburgh. Four double pallet robots, which resemble driver-less forklift truck, handle much of the facility’s putaway operations. Another four mobile robots are being used at a Giant Eagle distribution center in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Increasing Safety with Forklift Monitoring Systems

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Rosco, Inc. has announced a new partnership with Cascade International to introduce a new Backup Camera System made specifically for indoor and outdoor forklifts. The new forklift camera is called MaximEyes and is made to to increase safety with a unique forklift monitor mounting plate and camera clamp-bracket that is compatible with nearly all fork … Read more

Inspecting Your Pallets Saves Money

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One of the biggest overhead costs in any material handling operation should not be pallets. This is the easiest type of cost to keep track of and the easiest to control. Here are a few pointers to help cut costs associated with pallets and damage to palletized materials. QC Your Pallets Check your pallets often … Read more