Protect your company data with protocols, training and monitoring because all businesses are at risk if data security is not part of the day-to-day culture. * By Sheryl S. Jackson * A record high of 1,579 data breaches occurred in 2017—a 44.7 percent increase over 2016—with the business category topping the list for the third year in a row at ...

Cybersecurity concerns roll into the roadways as transportation vehicles become more high-tech and computerized. * By Fiona Soltes * As the journey toward connectivity, mobility, new technology and the Internet of Things continues to gather speed, it can be tempting to accelerate the search for solutions at the same time. This especially can be the case when it comes to ...

MHI’s Executive Summit to Feature FIRST® Robotics Competition Team and Ways to Introduce STEM Students to Supply Chain Careers By Viche Thomas, MHI Career & Technical Education Program Coordinator As part of MHI’s Career & Technical Education (CTE) program and our focus on developing the workforce of the future, we continuously look for opportunities to build awareness of the varied ...

More products, more customization, more regulatory scrutiny and more public outcry over price increases. That’s where pharmaceutical manufacturers find themselves in 2018. * By Sandy Smith * There are early indicators of what the pharmaceutical industry may hold in the near future—and the impact on supply chains is at the forefront. “The biggest challenge facing pharmaceutical manufacturers is the stringent ...

Economic growth in the United States was solid in 2017 and 2018. But the outlook for 2019 and 2020 is not as strong. Trade risks present downside risks to U.S. growth, global growth and the overall material handling outlook for 2019 and 2020. Furthermore, higher interest rates and rising labor costs also present downside risks to corporate profits and economic ...

“Manual material handling (MMH) continues to be the number one reason for workers compensation claims and lost time injuries,” noted Jim Galante, chairman of MHI’s Ergonomic Assist Systems and Equipment (EASE) Industry Group and director of business development for MHI member Southworth Products Corp. “The majority of these claims are lower and upper back related, which are the most expensive ...

For MHI’s Solutions Community, there were no lazy days of summer, as the group continued its progress on several key projects. Chief among them is a partnership with the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE) aimed at producing a series of white papers on important topics such as cybersecurity and Big Data for MHI members and the user ...

Member companies of the Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA) Industry Group of MHI have been working diligently to review and revise the standards for design and performance of protective guarding products used in the material handling industry. For the last year, the group has committed themselves to the development, maintenance and publishing of industry standard specifications for these systems. * ...

  An important part of the logistics function is the production and warehouse activity that takes place within the four walls of a facility called intralogistics. * By Tone Lerher, University of Padova, Italy *  The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals has defined logistics as “… that part of supply chain management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, ...

CASEY DAVIS, OHIO UNIVERSITY Keeping Safety Top of Mind in Space Exploration Casey Davis’s career prospects are literally out of this world. Since June 2017, he’s been a system safety engineer for United Launch Alliance, the joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing to provide spacecraft-launch services to the U.S. government. NASA hasn’t launched a manned spacecraft since the Atlantis ...