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Is fear keeping your company from achieving, or exceeding, its goals? If you don’t have psychologically safe work environments across your organization, then it probably is.

Establishing a company culture that nurtures innovation from all angles requires balancing groundbreaking ideas with steadfast business sense—incorporating and encouraging change while maintaining a solid base.

Shippers are realizing that the time to automate is right now. Those who delay risk alienating customers with slow service, eroding profit margins and failing to execute on their growth strategies.

Ongoing disruption to supply chains is fueling record investments in technology.

Sabine Batsche, the longtime marketing director for TENTE Casters, died Feb. 7, leaving behind colleagues, friends and family members who say they’ll always remember her kindhearted nature and willingness to help others.

MHI board member Annette Danek-Akey, executive vice president, supply chain for Penguin Random House, was recently named on Supply Chain Digital’s newly released "Top 100 Women in Supply Chain" 2022 list.

Al Wurz, widely considered as a pioneer in the barcode scanning industry, passed away at his home on Marco Island, FL, surrounded by his family on April 26, 2022.

Robots can be equipped with a variety of interchangeable end effectors tailored to handling specific kinds of products, which is making them invaluable on the warehouse floor and in other material handling environments.

Cassie Johnson, a MHEFI award winner, joined global technology company ABB right out of college and is taking part in their Discovery Program. She is rotating through three different areas of business, spending eight months in each role.

At warehouses and distribution centers, the migration toward automation is taking on greater urgency in 2022, and late adopters are realizing they can’t afford to sit on the sidelines any longer.