The textile industry in the United States is in the midst of a phoenix-like rise from the ashes. After 650 textile plants closed in the U.S. between 1997 and 2009, jobs and profits are coming back. According to the National Council of Textile Organizations, the value of shipments for textiles and apparel in the U.S. in 2016 was $74.4 billion—up ...

ProMat 2017 marked the fourteenth consecutive year that MHI has welcomed students and their instructors to Student Days. Since 2015, the event includes an extensive schedule of Classroom Day activities within the walls of McCormick Place on Wednesday, and a second day of off-site distribution center tours hosted by companies within the Chicagoland area. The event is sponsored and underwritten ...

The 2017 MHI Executive Summit & Annual Conference is an exclusive event for manufacturing and supply chain executives. It is taking place October 2-4, 2017, in Boca Raton, Florida. It is an exclusive, senior level, one-day event for manufacturing and supply chain executive leadership. Visit MHI.org/Summit for more info. The 2017 MHI Annual Conference will focus on key themes identified ...

Read about some of the other exciting MHI updates detailed in the latest issue of MHI Solutions, including interesting follow-up on two scholarship winners: MHI Annual Industry Report CLARK Material Handling Company Celebrates 100 Years in Material Handling MHI Announces 2017 MHI Executive Summit Speakers MHI Announces Speakers for the 2017 MHI Annual Conference MHI Announces Plans for New Solution Center ...

The Material Handling Education Foundation, Inc. (MHEFI) announces the establishment of the Willard P. Heddles Memorial Scholarship Fund. Heddles, chairman and CEO of Tiffin Metal Products, Inc. and former member of the MHI Roundtable and Board of Governors, passed away on January 31, 2017, from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. He also served on the Board of Directors ...

Manufacturing and supply chain professionals gathered in record numbers in Chicago at the recent ProMat 2017, the largest material handling and logistics trade expo in North and South America. With registrations of 4,872 attendees, show producer MHI announced a 20 percent attendance jump over 2015. The four-day event, April 3-6, covered 384,000 square feet of exhibit space on two show ...

What’s your initial reaction when you hear the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or Industrie/Industry 4.0? Are you excited because it represents an unparalleled opportunity to make things better? Or are you defensive because you fear that robots are taking over the world and will significantly degrade humanity? Well, I don’t have the answer to that ...

Many of us, myself included, are too mired in our day-to-day activities that we can’t afford to give ourselves the time to ponder what the future holds for us. But imagine taking a look around the current landscape, identifying the emerging technological, consumer, workforce and infrastructure trends, and extrapolating how those trends would influence what the year 2030 would have ...

Optimism about the U.S. economic outlook that increased at the end of 2016, strengthened even further in the first quarter of 2017. U.S. consumer confidence rose sharply in the first quarter and data from the ISM Manufacturing and Non-Manufacturing purchasing manager indices (PMIs) and the MHI Business Activity Index (BAI) was positive. Although there had been downside risks to U.S. ...

Items often need to be moved within a factory or warehouse. When workers lift and carry them manually the work is hard and subjects workers to serious risk of injury. If the items are heavy, these tasks can take multiple workers. Now there is a faster, safer way to do this work by using workstation crane systems, also known as ...