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Ergonomic Lifting Equipment
One of the more common tasks in material handling is people lifting objects. Historically this manual material handling has been done without assistance from lifting or positioning equipment. Unfortunately, encouraging workers to “lift correctly” has provided little measurable benefit in […]
Omnichannel: Creating a Strategy
In 2015, MHI will introduce Solution Groups to its offering of product-specific Industry Groups. Solution Groups will collect information on trends and issues from the market and provide solutions and thought leadership, enabling MHI and its member companies to be […]
Prepare for the Crisis Ahead by Managing Your Talent Supply Chain
By Daniel Stanton, MHI VP, Education and Professional Development If the experts are right, in a few years we’ll look back at 2014 as “the good ole’ days for recruiting.” Over the next few years we are expecting the U.S. […]
MHI: 70 Years of Evolution to Meet Our Industry’s Changing Needs
By Jeff Woroniecki, MHI Chief Operating Officer Adaptable. Vital. Inclusive. Three words you might not typically hear to describe an organization celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2015. And yet, those are just a few of the descriptors used by three […]
Industry Focus: The Aerospace Industry
The numbers in the aerospace industry speak volumes: Aerospace manufacturers produced $162 billion worth of gas turbine-powered aircraft in 2013, according to Peter Zimm, a principal with ICF International, a consulting firm that works in the aviation industry. Zimm anticipates […]
Big Data’s Impact on Supply Chains
By Carol Miller, MHI Vice President of Marketing and Communications Services Big data—the vast amounts of information that businesses, companies and organizations collect and store about inventory, operations, customers, vendors, sales and other transactions—and the challenges associated with strategically processing […]