Education

Understanding Next-Gen’s expectations and what motivates them is helpful when brainstorming on ways to attract, train and retain them, and figuring out where their skills might best be utilized in your company. * By Mike Ogle * Next generation workforce. What do those words mean to you? The first thought is usually young people about to graduate from college or ...

Material handling and supply chain systems are becoming markedly vulnerable to cyberattacks. * By MD Sarder and Matthew Haschak * Cybersecurity is the ability to prevent, defend against and recover from disruptions caused by cyberattacks from adversaries. Cyberattacks have been classified as passive attacks and active attacks. Passive attacks are difficult to detect and are mainly used on confidential data. ...

The theme of this year’s event was “People, Programs and Partnerships,” and also debuted the new MHI Career & Technical Education growth model focused on program growth and sustainability. * By Viché Thomas * Every summer, MHI’s Career & Technical Education (CTE) program presents the CTE Educators Summit. This event brings together educators from the universities, community colleges, technical schools, ...

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 addition to his job as senior vice president of operations for MHI member PECO Pallet Inc., he teaches courses in material handling and supply chain logistics to graduate students, helps deliver ...

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 ...

  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, ...

The 2018 MHI Executive Summit and Annual Conference will focus on the NextGen technology, leading trends and enterprise-level best practices explored in the 2018 MHI Annual Industry Report. The Summit and Conference, being held October 14-17 in Orlando, will feature presentations geared to helping businesses take proactive steps geared toward continued competitive growth. Read more here and here…

* By Delana Hopkins, MHI Career and Technical Education (CTE) Senior Coordinator * If the many approaches to tackling the current—and mitigating the future—shortage of skilled workers needed throughout supply chains are programs focused on introducing students as early as middle school to careers in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. These efforts include special daylong events spearheaded ...

Paying It Forward LEILY FARROKHVAR, West Virginia University Leily Farrokhvar is giving the Material Handling Education Foundation Inc. a solid return on the investment it made in her. Farrokhvar, a 32-year-old native of Tehran, Iran, received a scholarship from MHEFI as a doctoral student at Virginia Tech and for the past two years has been an assistant professor at West ...

Helping Boeing’s Parts Suppliers Run a Tight Ship Catching up with an MHEFI Scholarship Recipient Seth Willmarth, Texas A&M University