Tag Archives: MHIsolutionsmag

SUPPLY CHAINS HAVE never been more powerful—or more exposed. Over the past decade, digitization has transformed how goods move, how data flows and how decisions get made. Warehouses operate on interconnected sensor networks. Inventory systems communicate with suppliers in real time. Artificial intelligence (AI)‑driven platforms forecast demand, flag disruptions and optimize routes before a human ever looks at a dashboard. ...

BY BRIAN PFANNES, PRESIDENT, STEEL KING INDUSTRIES AS THE LEADER of a material handling business, a question on my mind every day is, “How do we bring in that next generation of talent to lead our organization?” I know from talking to my peers that I’m not alone. A big reason that we’re thinking about it so much is because ...

BY CHRISTIAN DOW, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP, MHI AS SUJIT MOITRA, vice president of enterprise technology at MHI member Top Hat Engineering, reflects on present‑day cybersecurity, he believes the material handling industry must look beyond traditions. In fact, he stresses that cybersecurity—within modern warehouses and material handling environments alike—extends well beyond conventional IT security. After all, cybersecurity systems ...

As warehouses become highly connected, digital environments, they are also exposing a rapidly expanding cyber risk surface ...

BY TOM GRESHAM IN JANUARY 2023, U.S. and Canadian laws surrounding rear‑impact guards for truck trailers changed, including a new requirement that guards must be able to withstand 35 mph rear‑impact crashes—up from 30 mph. Truck trailer manufacturers had to change the design of rear impact guards to meet the new requirement. However, they didn’t initially consider how those new ...

As organizations across the supply chain adopt artificial intelligence (AI) to boost reliability, performance and resilience, they face dramatically expanding threats from malicious actors leveraging the tech to increase the speed, scale and adaptability of cyberattacks. But AI is also equipping cybersecurity teams with powerful new defensive weapons to thwart the bad guys. Here’s how AI is rewriting the supply ...

Evaluating third-party vendor risks is standard procedure for supply chain organizations. But the risk assessment processes that have been used for years ...

BY KATIE KUEHNER‑HEBERT MEMBERS OF THE MHI Industry Group Advanced Energy Council (AEC) are actively promoting the safe adoption of advanced energy technologies in material handling, with a particular focus on motive power: lithium‑ion batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, chargers and the accessories that tie those systems together. The group brings together manufacturers, equipment OEMs and suppliers under one roof to ...

BY SANDY SMITH WITH THE RAPID changes in warehouse automation, The Robotics Group is a place where competitors work together to move the industry forward. The group’s leaders say that role is more important than ever as robotics adoption shifts from novelty to necessity. Chris Lingamfelter, co‑founder and managing partner of Robot Advisory Group and current TRG chair, has watched ...

Walk into a modern distribution center today and the impression is one of precision engineering and ...