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With sales surging, online retailer Zappos.com needed an order picking technology that could be up and running quickly. The answer? A system that uses robots to bring goods to order pickers.
Diagnose lift-truck performance from afar? It might sound like science fiction, but it's now possible—and it has the potential to change the way you manage your fleet.
Emerging technologies may be the future of lift truck propulsion, but the lead acid battery will remain the dominant technology in the DC for some time to come.
Eager to see how its newly developed fuel cell device would fare in trials, East Penn Manufacturing decided to test the unit itself. But round-the-clock DC operations and 4,000-pound loads would make this a rigorous trial.
Conventional wisdom says that "Made in America" can't compete with products manufactured in lower-cost countries. But we recently ran across two companies that are apparently bucking the trend.
The average citizen will soon know a lot more about automated material handling machines, thanks to an article in the special robotics issue of Scientific American.
Nobody, it turns out. In the absence of federal regulations, anyone can hang out a sign, print up business cards, and call himself a forklift driver trainer.