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…We talked to four—Crown, Raymond, Toyota and Yale—but all major suppliers have placed a heavy emphasis on training. Furthermore, they are all very proud of their programs—a fact that came across strongly in interviews. Training lift truck technicians well has implications not just for the techs themselves but for suppliers and their customers, too. The first step is to find…
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…Romano, president and CEO of Toyota Advanced Logistics NA. As part of that shift, Romano says that lift truck buying is leaving its buying silo. As automation, including automated lift trucks, increases in facilities, all equipment is increasingly being viewed as part of a system. “Trucks are now part of a bigger picture. No more silos. Customers are changing their…
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…innovation? And, how does the industry capture the lightning in a bottle associated with innovators like Apple and Google? Those were questions we first asked in the May 2017 issue. We set out to define just what innovation means to our industry along with how it is approached at some of the leading OEM and system solution providers, including Swisslog,…
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The industry’s momentum continues to build, even as it changes shape to adapt to technology; acquisitions across technology competencies have heralded the arrival of Consolidation 2.0, while automation and cybersecurity shake up the way players throughout the supply chain do business. The next year promises continued change, but unlike the uncertainty—verging on panic—that characterized 2016, the industry seems poised to…
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…IAM Robotics Conveyor: Hytrol and SSI Schaefer Vertical Reciprocating Coneyor: PFlow Industries Voice Recognition System: Lucas Systems Mobile Computing & Bar Code Scanning: Zebra Technologies WMS: Developed in-house WCS: SSI Schaefer Returnable Shipping Totes: Monoflo International Inline Printing: Konica Minolta Print & Apply Shipping Labels: Weber Packaging Lift Trucks: Toyota Rack: Ridg-U-Rak
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…combustion product planning specialist for Toyota Material Handling U.S.A. “When we talk to customers in that area, everything is about the operator. It’s not enough to pay another 50 cents an hour, because you can always be beaten. That operator needs to be so happy where they are that they don’t even look elsewhere.” Operator safety has always been central…
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…professor, to define rapidly evolving industries – those with a fast clock speed that he likened to fruit flies that are born, mature and expire in a very short time. He argued that “in business today, all advantage is temporary. In order to survive-let alone thrive-companies must be able to anticipate and adapt to change, or face rapid, brutal extinction.“…
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Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) has signed an agreement to acquire Vanderlande, a global market leader for value-added logistic process automation at airports, warehouses and the parcel market, from the company’s current owner NPM Capital. The acquisition has been fully approved and supported by Vanderlande’s Supervisory and Management Boards, and Works Council. Vanderlande will retain its name and corporate identity, as…
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The Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry’s trade organization, has announced the winners of the Engelberger Robotics Awards. The 2017 Engelberger Robotics Award will be presented to Gill Pratt, chief executive officer of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), and Daniela Rus, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at…
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…technology and services, will provide Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi an OTTO 1500 self-driving vehicle for ground tire delivery in the Corolla assembly plant. “Toyota has set the standard in lean manufacturing principles and we’re very proud that OTTO has been selected as a means to drive lean, flexible material transport for the Mississippi plant,” said Simon Drexler, Director of Industrial…
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…used by the Hondas and Toyotas of the world, but few mom and pops have thought about automating materials handling outside conveyance principles. When you really start to think about how product flows—and I use the term loosely to mean both boxes dropped at the dock or garbage collected at the end of the line—you start to see the opportunities.”…
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…year in the materials handling industry, it really does feel like the dawn of a new era for our industry. It’s obviously early days, but its hard to ignore the strong showing of robotics that were the talk of MODEX last April, just as its hard to look at the KION/Dematic and Honeywell/Intelligrated couplings and not wonder how materials handling…
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…gaining popularity in the aviation industry as it offers ease for manufacturing and assembling the aircraft. The systems are used for storing parts of aircraft, picking and handling of components during assembly of aircraft, and organizing aircraft parts efficiently. The Asia-Pacific region (APAC) is expected to be the leading and fastest-growing market for automated material handling equipment during the forecast…
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