When picking out guest room furniture, it may help to first focus on these 5 essentials to make the job that much easier. Once you have these essentials in place, you can always build around them to create a welcoming space for your guests. ...
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Start making waves. Efficient order fulfillment begins with wave planning. "Planning and decision-making used to be a complicated process, but now take minutes with this application. Wave planning is an enterprise-level tool that is ...
Tags: Qc Software, application, Wave planning
The recent deployment of a voice-directed picking solution from topVOX (Booth 3573) at Suisan, a Hawaiian food service distributor, is a good indicator of the advantages of the vendor’s “speaker-indepedent” voice ...
One of the ProMat Innovation Awards finalists, New Age Industrial (Booth 2341), showcased how its #99664 order picking cart can be used to improve picking and putaway efficiency in distribution centers by as much as 25% at a press ...
Tags: ProMat Innovation Awards finalists, New Age Industrial, picking cart
The third installment of results from a survey conducted by Intermec (Booth 4263) was released at ProMat, finding that 59% of managers use a metric known as “the perfect order”—meaning picked complete, on-time and ...
Tags: third installment, ProMat, Profitability
It would seem Subaru has matured nicely as the marque celebrates its 40th anniversary in Australia – the launch of the new Subaru Forester XT is distinguished by the fact that, for the first time, the Forester turbo doesn’t get ...
Tags: 2013, Subaru, Forester XT
You are not going to win this one without a lot of effort and unpleasantness. I would explain that I prefer cleaner rooms, but if my child wants to live like this, OK, except for a couple of rules: No food or liquids that could attract ...
Tags: Toys, Room, Constant Disaster
UK-based underwriter Rothesay Life has signed a pound 115m bulk annuity insurance agreement with Western United Group Pension Scheme, to cover a portion of the pension liabilities associated with Vestey Group's pension scheme. The ...
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Jungheinrich (Booth 2041) is offering visitors an opportunity to operate its EKX man-up turret truck equipped with Warehouse Navigation. The new system is capable of improving productivity by 25%. Once the operator applies the ...
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Dematic (Booth 1203) introduced the next generation of its Multishuttle, a high-speed automated storage, retrieval and picking solution for cases, totes and trays. The system is part of Dematic’s overall solution set designed to ...
Debuting as a ProMat exhibitor for the first time, SpeedCell Storage Systems (Booth 4147) offers a line of subdivided, movable vertical columns constructed of fabric for product storage. Previous iterations of the product have been ...
While some areas continued to struggle this year, there are signs of improvement. Samantha Loveday asks some key licensing execs for their views on the year gone by, the challenges and what 2013 might hold. "For spring/summer 2012 the ...
Tags: toy licensing, toy sales, toy
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 ...
UK - British rockers Level 42 have been living up to their 1984 album Standing in the Light by performing under a rig of Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 700s at London's Royal Albert Hall. Lighting designer Yenz Nyholm says they form a key ...
Tags: Alpha, Lighting, lighting design
The delivery of our Tesla Model S last Friday culminated over two years of wait. We put a $5,000 deposit in October, 2010 and waited our turn. California start-up Tesla is a new kind of company that builds only electric cars. And as if ...
Tags: Tesla Model S, electric cars, car industry