SDI Group USA (Booth 3933) announced Tuesday at a press conference that it has changed its name from SDI Industries as part of a tighter branding under the SDI Group name worldwide. There are eight regions and 15 offices among the eight ...
Lenze Americas (Booth 1763) has expanded its support of materials handling systems with a fully integrated, energy-efficient package of software, plus drive- and controller-based systems for automation. On display are multiple frequency ...
Tags: motor drive technologies, gear motors, electric drives
More than 50 educators and administrators from technical high schools, colleges and community colleges around the country will attend Wednesday's day-long Technical Career Education Conference. The participants will learn how to establish a ...
Tags: Technical educators, materials handling, logistics training
Next week, I’ll be in Chicago at ProMat 2013. Like most in our industry, I’m looking forward to seeing what’s new in the world of materials handling. Our course, the most efficient materials handling is no materials ...
Tags: 2013, materials handling, manufacturing
IMHX (International Materials Handling Exhibition) will showcase pick-and-pack and dispatch systems, the latest advances in mail order fulfillment and protective packaging from Automated Packaging Systems at NEC Birmingham, England. IMHX ...
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In an effort to attract and retain fresh talent in the industry, Materials Handling Industry (MHI) will launch the Young Professionals Network (YPN) at ProMat 2013. Devon Birch is marketing and communications services manager for MHI. She ...
Tags: Materials Handling Industry, Processing Machinery, Machinery
This year, ProMat features three keynote presentations, each offering critical insights from experts into future developments in robotics, business and the supply chain. The first runs Monday morning from 8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. in the ...
Tags: robotics, business, supply chain
TotalTrax announced today that the U.S. Patent Office has issued TotalTrax a seventh patent, covering a method for collision avoidance. US patent 0010023 entitled “Method and apparatus for managing and controlling manned and ...
Tags: TotalTrax, automated utility vehicles, collision avoidance patent
Among the nearly 800 exhibitors at ProMat are five companies making their debut at the event. Although trade shows in general have drawn lower attendance and exhibitor numbers over the past few years of the recession, many of these new ...
I spent Wednesday morning at Intelligrated’s new 122,000 square foot headquarters in Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati better known as the home of the Kings Island amusement park. Heck, you can see the tops of the roller coasters ...
Tags: automation, Cincinnati, Intelligrated
With an increased emphasis of the importance of materials handling to the supply chain—and the globalization of the world’s economy—don’t be surprised to hear conversations in languages other than English as you ...
Tags: materials handling, ProMat, Processing Machinery, industry view
This Veterans Day,Yale Materials Handling Corporation continues looking to veterans of the U.S.armed forces for its dealers to grow their sales force.The company and its dealer network have been working with Snelling Search's Military ...
Tags: Yale, dealer network, hire veterans, MH Equipment Company
It’s a New Year’s tradition for anyone who writes for a living: use the first column of the year to look back at what just happened and try to make sense of what’s to come. Truth be told, it was probably a way for writers ...
Tags: Automation, New Year, car industry, promoption
Sweden-based Sandvik Mining has announced that it has signed a mining systems contract with South Africa's Sasol Mining (Pty) Ltd for the Shondoni Mine Materials Handling project in South Africa. The SEK 650 million ($101 million) ...
Tags: Sweden, Sandvik Mining, South Africa, Mine Materials Handling project
Linpac Allibert and Schoeller Arca Systems (SAS) have merged to form a new plastic reusable transit packaging (RTP) company called Schoeller Allibert. The collaboration enables customers to benefit from direct access to a broader range of ...
Tags: Linpac Allibert, Schoeller, new reusable transit, packaging company