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 it play a key role in the operation of today’s most successful supply chains. Companies that figure out how best to harness the capture, storage, management and analysis of big data ...

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 continued growth of 2.3 percent per year over the next decade. The industry’s dominant manufacturers—Boeing and Airbus—each have eight-year production ...

If the experts are right, in a few years we’ll look back at 2014 as “the good ole’ days for recruiting.” Over the next few years we are expecting the U.S. workforce to shrink dramatically. It is really a perfect storm…60 million Baby Boomers are retiring, with only 40 million new workers coming in to the workforce. And the participation ...

In 2015, MHI will introduce Solution Groups to its offering of product-specific Industry Groups. Solution Groups will collect information on trends and issues from the market and provide solutions and thought leadership, enabling MHI and its member companies to be the authoritative resource on material handling and supply chain topics. “We see this as an effective approach for engaging the end-user ...

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 reducing the use of improper lifting procedures. Improper lifting can result in injuries, accidents and a loss in productivity. In ...

Building the future doesn’t always come naturally to people. Too often, we are harshly confronted or otherwise assaulted by a changing present before it registers that our future will be different. And we need to do something about it now. Material handling and logistics are not exempt from this. Fortunately, some of the early detection work of what the future ...

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 of MHI’s board members when discussing some of the reasons behind our association’s continued importance to the supply chain, material handling and logistics industries. What started in ...

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 build business partnerships Find the latest innovations and exciting new technologies Meet top providers face-to-face. Finding the right solution is ...

Since 2010, the global economy has been experiencing modest growth, and we expect the same in 2015. In fact, we encourage firms to consider that 2015 could look remarkably similar to 2014. Along those lines, a number of critical market dynamics are likely to seem extremely familiar, including modest U.S. growth and the gradual removal of accommodative Fed monetary policy, ...

The Storage Manufacturers Association is developing ANSI specifications. The effort has helped double its membership. With the recent addition of two new members, the Storage Manufacturers Association (SMA) Product Group of MHI has doubled its membership—from seven to 13 members—in the past six years. Among the reasons for the membership surge is SMA’s three-year-old commitment to developing American National Standards ...