Inside Supply Management: The smart approach
Warehouses and distribution centers can optimize processes and operations, as well as mitigate such challenges as labor shortages, through technologies and applications that are increasingly accessible.
MHS in the news
Food Logistics: Smart assets means a smart cold chain
As with all parts of the supply chain, the cold sector gets smarter as technology advances.
Modern Materials Handling: Best Practices: The new look of MRO parts management
“I’ve been at this for over 10 years, and I’ve never seen MRO parts activity like I’ve seen in the past year,” says Dave Trice. “Businesses are running equipment longer and harder and maintenance teams are leaner than ever.
Logistics Business Magazine: Flower Power
A Dutch-based global flower supplier has a shoe sorter at the trusted centre of a fully automated handling system.
TGW U.S. Conveyors will now operate as part of the MHS Global family as MHS Conveyor
TGW U.S. Conveyors will now operate as part of the MHS Global family as “MHS Conveyor.”
Packaging World: E-commerce poses new automation challenges
Robotic technologies help address e-commerce related packaging issues, including a reduced labor pool, the need for speed, and sorting of intermixed products.
Modern Materials Handling: Getting non-conveyables under control
Bruce Bleikamp, director of product management at MHS, estimates that only about 2% of the SKUs in a typical DC are non-conveyable. But as Jensen points out, that number can run as high as 15% or 20%.
Enterprise Talk: Logistics and material handling industry – RPA to the rescue during the pandemic
“In the material handling industry, one can expect to see the rise of next-generation of robotic innovations designed to provide relief from labor challenges and boost productivity for distribution centers,” says Rush Fullerton, Senior Vice President Business Development at MHS, in an exclusive interview with Enterprise Talk.
Modern Materials Handling: Top 20 materials handling systems suppliers 2021
Holding steady at No. 9, but with growing revenue for 2020 to $1.05 billion, is Material Handling Systems (MHS).
Modern Materials Handling: CMMS takes aim at predictive maintenance
No one likes unpredictability. It’s unsettling. Usually disruptive. Costly, too. But the unpredictability that most plant and DC managers would never tolerate in their processes and workflows, they often accept in maintenance.