By: Aaron Conway, Contributor Look around the facility you are working in; it’s likely filled with equipment found in many material handling operations: storage systems, racking, conveyors, fork-trucks, AGVs and more. Within all of the machinery is also some kind of protective guarding or barrier. Is the protective guarding being used correctly? If not, the…
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By: Peter Deutsch, Contributor The performance and safety requirements in welding are becoming greater. All welders in industry and workshops notice this every day due to the ever-increasing pressure to perform. How can you deal with these rising demands on the welder with confidence? It’s simple: integrate the best technology into a welding helmet to…
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By: Ed Mullen, Contributor Transporting materials across facilities can be difficult, time-consuming and dangerous, potentially resulting in overexertion for workers and contact with objects and equipment. In 2018, for example, forklifts alone caused 85 work-related deaths and 7,940 non-fatal injuries involving an average of 12 days away from work, according to the National Safety Council. Not only…
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By: Ioanna Gavrielatou, Contributor The exponential growth of ecommerce has driven demand in the materials handling and logistics sector to unprecedented levels. In the U.S. alone, ecommerce is expected to account for 26% of all sales by 2025, with online revenues jumping $330 billion between 2020 and 2025. Online consumers expect products to be delivered…
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By: Maureen Paraventi Work boots – especially for industries such as construction – are substantial items, designed and built to protect your phalanges and metatarsals, your muscles, tendons, ligaments and oh yes, that painful-when-injured Achilles tendon – all of the marvelous parts that make up the all- important appendage that allows you to walk, run,…
Read More >>Leaders in Material Handling
• Bishamon
• Gorbel
• Herkules Equipment Corporation
• Nilfisk
• Tennsco
