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ProMat Update – Attendees indicate the economic recovery is taking hold for manufacturing and supply chain industries
ProMat 2015 attendees are registering in record numbers for the event to be held March 23-25 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. When attendees register, they are asked to answer a variety of demographic questions indicating their industry, product interest, buying authority […]
Ergonomic Lifting Equipment
One of the more common tasks in material handling is people lifting objects. Historically this manual material handling has been done without assistance from lifting or positioning equipment. Unfortunately, encouraging workers to “lift correctly” has provided little measurable benefit in […]
MHI: 70 Years of Evolution to Meet Our Industry’s Changing Needs
By Jeff Woroniecki, MHI Chief Operating Officer Adaptable. Vital. Inclusive. Three words you might not typically hear to describe an organization celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2015. And yet, those are just a few of the descriptors used by three […]
Industry Focus: The Aerospace Industry
The numbers in the aerospace industry speak volumes: Aerospace manufacturers produced $162 billion worth of gas turbine-powered aircraft in 2013, according to Peter Zimm, a principal with ICF International, a consulting firm that works in the aviation industry. Zimm anticipates […]
Big Data’s Impact on Supply Chains
By Carol Miller, MHI Vice President of Marketing and Communications Services Big data—the vast amounts of information that businesses, companies and organizations collect and store about inventory, operations, customers, vendors, sales and other transactions—and the challenges associated with strategically processing […]
ProMat 2015 Preview
See the latest, greatest manufacturing and supply chain solutions at ProMat 2015. When you attend ProMat, you can expect to uncover new business potential: –Speed time to market –Cut costs and maximize efficiency –Streamline your operations –Engage industry professionals and […]