Solutions Spotlight

RMI Launches New Blog By Stephen Murdoch— For 60 years, the Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI) has been the leading voice for the industry’s suppliers of industrial steel storage racks and related structural systems. As the national voice for those who supply industrial rack solutions in the United States, the group works tirelessly to share relevant industry related information with its ...

MHI Solutions Community Sponsoring MODEX Seminar on the Top 10 Tips for Implementing a Fulfillment Warehouse By Brian Reaves, MHI Executive Vice President— The top 10 list I’m about to tell you about won’t make you laugh like the ones that were read each night for decades by David Letterman, but for executives and operations managers at order fulfillment warehouses, ...

The Importance of Hoist Safety By Stephen Murdoch The safe use and application of a hoist will go a long way to reducing workplace injuries. All too often, hoist-related accidents could have been prevented by providing comprehensive training to the operators and through proper hoist inspection and maintenance. In recognition of this, the Hoist Manufacturing Institute (HMI) is working diligently ...

New and Improved: Solutions Community Aims to Be Resource for MHI Members, User Community By Brian Reaves, MHI Executive Vice President Come together, right now, for efficiency. Well, that’s not exactly how the famous Beatles lyric goes, but in the case of the MHI’s three solutions groups, it makes perfect sense. When the MHI Solutions Community was created this past ...

If there is one thing that sets the Crane Manufacturers Association of America (CMAA) apart from other industry groups, it is the preparation and marketing of its standards.  The group takes this extremely seriously and is working to be the go-to resource for crane information and expertise.  Recently, MHI Solutions spoke with industry stakeholders to better understand how leading crane ...

In the beginning of the 1900s, the first ergonomic concepts to help workers operate more productively were introduced. At the time, industry demanded a great deal of physical exertion from workers. Today, caster manufacturers continue to study human abilities, limitations and other characteristics relevant to product design in hopes of reducing workplace stress and injury. Recently, the Institute of Caster ...

Early last year, the Automation Solutions Group (ASG) of MHI was shaped out of the former Integrated Systems and Controls Council (ISC). ISC brought together companies that supplied automated material handling solutions as well as companies providing related products and services. As ISC, the leadership team realized that they could do more in the way of educating customers about automation ...

In virtually every major manufacturing and distribution sector, automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) are employed. Equipment and controls that handle, store and retrieve materials under a defined degree of automation continue to grow in demand. To better understand what companies are looking for when it comes to selecting an AS/RS solution from the relatively simple manually controlled order-picked machines ...

While there are many standard lifts being manufactured by the industry, there are also applications using lifts that the industry may not think about. Today, it is not just about palletizing and de-palletizing. Recently, MHI Solutions spoke with lift manufacturers and asked them how day-to-day use of lifts has changed. Bob Clark, vice president of sales for MHI member Bishamon, ...

Across the country, new and innovative protective guarding products are being designed to protect personnel, equipment and inventory in industrial facilities. Recently, we spoke with industry leaders to learn more about new technologies around electronic guarding and how they can be used in conjunction with traditional guarding for a robust overall solution. Aaron Conway, president of MHI member Mezzanine Safeti-Gates, ...