{"id":5172,"date":"2013-08-27T12:34:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2013-08-27T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T17:34:06","slug":"souped-up-power-jack-provides-solutions-for-companys-unique-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/souped-up-power-jack-provides-solutions-for-companys-unique-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Souped-Up Power Jack Provides Solutions for Company&#8217;s Unique Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MHI, a manufacturer of power jacks and other materials handling equipment, recently created a customized power pallet jack that addressed problems one of its clients was having, according to a company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhi.org\/downloads\/industrygroups\/lmps\/casestudies\/powered-autotilt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a>. Trans-Ocean, a leading supplier of seafood products to the food industry, needed a pallet jack that was faster yet ergonomically safer than other vehicles on the market. Due to the frequent handling of perishables with the potential for contamination, the jack needed to be able to be cleaned and sanitized regularly without risk of rust or erosion. Engineers at MHI went to work and eventually produced a customized power jack that included a powered wheel drive that made it run faster and more easily.\u00a0 They also added a stainless steel overlay with an epoxy finish that allowed the vehicle to be washed more frequently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MHI, a manufacturer of power jacks and other materials handling equipment, recently created a customized power pallet jack that addressed problems one of its clients was having, according to a company news release. Trans-Ocean, a leading supplier of seafood products to the food industry, needed a pallet jack that was faster yet ergonomically safer than &#8230; <a title=\"Souped-Up Power Jack Provides Solutions for Company&#8217;s Unique Problems\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/souped-up-power-jack-provides-solutions-for-companys-unique-problems\/\" aria-label=\"More on Souped-Up Power Jack Provides Solutions for Company&#8217;s Unique Problems\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,293,37],"tags":[348,1083,168],"class_list":["post-5172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","category-news","category-warehouse-dock-equipment","tag-material-handling-solutions","tag-warehouse-dock-equipment","tag-warehouse-and-dock-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}