The importance of fork truck maintenance

Ok, let’s paint a picture in your mind… You’ve recently purchased a new piece of materials handling equipment and you’re trying to set up a service schedule for it – would you know where to start? For many people this is an area which causes the most confusion.

It’s all about that final mile

You ordered those fabulous shoes from a million miles away, for a wedding. And, they should have been delivered to your door yesterday. The thing is – they were! Only, you didn’t know because you weren’t home. This got Hannah Rayner and Matthew Putman of Loughborough University thinking.

Increase productivity, decrease costs with Lithium-Ion from Toyota

As you may or may not know Lithium-ion battery technology is fast becoming very popular, particularly in the materials handling industry. This is mainly due to the many benefits it brings in increasing efficiency and saving on costs.

Toyota presents its new intelligent AGV automation software T-ONE

Toyota Material Handling introduced its new intelligent in-house developed automation software, T-ONE, at the LogiMAT fair in Stuttgart (13-15 March). T-ONE (Optimise – Navigate – Execute) applies one-step-ahead-thinking and is part of Toyota’s lean approach to optimise efficiency and warehouse resource utilisation. T-ONE is at the heart of Toyota’s automated solutions integrating customer processes and providing a full overview and control of the material flow.

Thorough Examinations – The Facts

Thorough Examination is one of the areas which seem to cause the most confusion amongst organisations. So today we thought we’d share some information with you about Thorough Examinations and why they are important. Here’s what you need to know.