Tips for Selecting the Right Pallet Rack for Your Warehouse

A quality pallet racking system can enhance your warehouse’s operational efficiency and space utilization. Many key factors impact the best option for your unique layout and processes. You will need to be thoughtful about your decision to ensure you choose the ideal configuration to match the needs of your facility and enhance daily workflows. Below…

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How to Prepare Your Warehouse for an OSHA Inspection

How to Prepare Your Warehouse for an OSHA Inspection

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) plays a central role in establishing and enforcing workplace safety regulations that protect workers. Warehouses are often filled with potential safety hazards — high shelves, heavy machinery and moving equipment can all be dangerous. With so many hazards around, OSHA inspections are a way to ensure every warehouse…

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Emerging Trends in the Material Handling Industry

Emerging Trends in the Material Handling Industry

Each year, automation and technology innovations push material handling capabilities into the future. Our interconnected, global market is a highly competitive space. If you want to outperform local and international competition, you need to be on the cutting edge. Understanding emerging trends in the material handling industry can help you boost productivity while keeping costs…

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The Top 12 Most Important Safety Tips for Forklift Operators

The Top 12 Most Important Safety Tips for Forklift Operators

Forklifts are critical components of many projects, and they are also potentially dangerous pieces of heavy equipment. In 2022, forklifts were related to 73 workplace deaths and nearly 25,000 Days Away From Work, Job Restriction or Transfer (DART) cases. Transportation incidents were the leading cause of all incidents. Protect your team, pedestrians and machinery with…

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Common Problems With Loading Dock Equipment

Common Problems With Loading Dock Equipment

Your loading dock area is likely one of the busiest in your facility. With constant foot traffic, and forklifts moving heavy loads to and from trucks and trailers, and constant stress from weather elements, these areas can quickly face problems.  As issues surface on the loading dock they need to be address promptly to avoid…

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Pallet Racking Basics

Which Type of Pallet Racking is Best for My Warehouse? There are a number of different types of pallet racking systems available today. Even seasoned warehouse operators may be challenged to fully-understand the features and benefits, positives, and negatives of each type of racking. In this blog post, we hope to provide helpful information on…

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Tips for Warehouse Layout Efficiency

Warehouse layouts significantly impact operational efficiency. Proper layouts provide safer spaces for workers and allow seamless equipment options. Having an organized facility can also lead to boosted customer satisfaction and maximized revenue. Creating a new warehouse layout can seem challenging, but the right tips can make the process easier and ensure you maximize your space…

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How to Select the Right Commercial UTV for You

First, some history about Polaris, the company that introduced the first UTV. Polaris manufactured its first snowmobile in 1955 and in the following decades, parlayed its success into product development and new markets. In 1985 Polaris became the first American company to build an all-terrain vehicle, or ATV for short. They named it the Trail…

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agv vs amr

AGVs vs. AMRs: Exploring the Key Differences in Warehouse Automation

Today, tasks like moving, packing, loading and unloading goods are more advanced than ever. Industries can use state-of-the-art mechanisms to complete operations more efficiently, resulting in fewer labor-intensive tasks and increased productivity and revenue. Improving your processes with robotic automation allows you to stay ahead of your industry, streamline processes, maximize efficiency and enhance working…

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OTTO Motors 1500 Autonomous Mobile Robot

Cross Docking

Cross docking is a practice where materials are transferred from inbound trucking to outbound trucking. Cross docking allows for operations to move, combine and sort less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments prior to final delivery. In practice, these operations utilize multiple staging areas where inbound materials are sorted and checked and stored until being delivered to outbound docks…

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New MAFI terminal tractor and roll trailer.

Eastern Lift Truck Co.’s Quick Response Aids Marine Terminal Operator in Need

Operating a busy marine port with full rail and interstate highway access is challenging, even for a company with more than one hundred years of experience and the ability to handle a variety of shipments from bulk and breakbulk, to project cargo, and Ro/Ro. Last summer, one such deep-water, multimodal terminal, contacted Eastern Lift Truck…

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OTTO Motors 600 autonomous mobile robot

Small Goods and Tote Transport

There are many applications in any operation that require the movement of small goods or small containers of products, supplies or ready-to-ship boxes that aren’t palletized. ELT Systems Group’s robotic solutions can automate these workflows with a cart-based system. With the OTTO 100 you can stage carts with different shelving configurations throughout your facility with…

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