10th Annual CTE Educators Summit Attendees Collaborate, Share Best Practices
The theme of this year’s event was “People, Programs and Partnerships,” and also debuted the new MHI Career & Technical Education growth model..
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HIGHER EDUCATION: Cybersecurity and Its Implication on Material Handling and Supply Chains
Material handling and supply chain systems are becoming markedly vulnerable to cyberattacks. * By MD Sarder and Matthew Haschak * Cybersecurity is the ability..
ProMat 2019 Preview
Get a preview of the largest manufacturing and supply chain event of 2019—ProMat—coming to Chicago’s McCormick Place April 8-11. Read More…
ECONOMIC MARKET ANALYSIS: Strong Growth in 2018 Overshadowed by Downside Risks to 2019 and 2020
* By Jason Schenker, Prestige Economics * The U.S. economy and most material handling equipment manufacturers enjoyed solid growth in 2018. But the outlook for..
SAFER HANDLING: Combining Multiple Equipment Types for Improved Ergonomics
* By Jean Feingold * In the current tight labor market, facilities are seeking ways to streamline manual material handling (MMH) to increase productivity,..
PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: E-Commerce, Selectivity Spurring Innovation in AS/RS
* By Katie Kuehner-Hebert * Innovation and evolution don’t just happen. They are a result of continually challenging the boundaries and testing the unknown...
SOLUTIONS SPOTLIGHT: Overhead Alliance Renews and Refreshes Its Member Value
* By Stephen Murdoch * The Overhead Alliance—a marketing arm for the Monorail Manufacturers Association, the Hoist Manufacturers Institute and the Crane..
SOLUTIONS COMMUNITY: Crawl, Walk, Run Approach Helps Overcome Barriers to Implementing New Technology
* By John Paxton, COO, MHI * With e-commerce continuing to grow, customers increasingly expecting orders to be delivered yesterday and a shortage of talented..
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Catching up with MHEFI Scholarship Recipients
Keeping Those Red Pallets Moving Across the Country Eric Sobanski enjoys a good round of golf but fully expects his clubs to be collecting dust for a while. In..
2018 MHI Annual Conference
At the 2018 MHI Executive Summit and Annual Conference, attendees heard from industry visionaries including Gerd Leonard, Ritchie Etwaru, John Sileo, Eric..
Material Handling Industry (MHI) is the leading trade association representing the material handling and logistics industry.