Correct costly picking errors
Picking errors create unnecessary cost: lost or returned goods, stock differences, credit notes, phone calls, emails back and forth.
Demand grows for ATEX forklift safety audits
Safety company Pyroban has reported a significant growth in the UK in 2016 for annual safety audits (Ex-ASAs) carried out on explosion protected lift trucks. The company says that users of “ATEX” forklifts have driven demand, not the equipment dealers.
Convert pallet racking into carton flow store
Interroll Carton Versi Flow is a versatile modular wheel system, supplied in pre-assembled beds, designed to simply and rapidly convert most pallet rack structures into dynamic, versatile live flow storage systems with out the need for special tools.
Safer powered pedestrian trucks
The ACKPad and ACKBelt are cost effective and easily fitted safety devices developed by the Weston Handling Consultancy to help improve the safety of virtually all your powered pedestrian trucks.
Mars achieves zero% manual handling accidents
MARS Chocolate has achieved a zero per cent manual handling accident rate thanks to Pristine Condition International, an Oxfordshire-based company founded by former Olympic coach and weightlifting world record holder Davy Snowdon MBE.
Future assured for loading systems businesses
The future of the Joloda International loading systems businesses have been secured through a private ‘Buy-In Management Buy-Out’ (BIMBO) deal, which sees the arrival of a new, investing CEO, supported by two of the group’s existing directors
Sheet metal storage system boosts productivity
Sheet metal subcontractor Keller Blechtechnik in Endingen, southern Germany, has increased productivity by more than 25 per cent thanks to ongoing investment in automated storage, retrieval and handling of material. At the same time, material availability has improved and scrap has been drastically reduced.
Winner of most bizarre health & safety signs
From humorous ‘wet floor’ signs on the beach to absurd toilet symbols, entries have flooded in for A-SAFE’s competition to find what the public perceive to be the most unusual health and safety signs in the UK.
Waitrose NDC selects Voiteq Voice
After consolidating bulk goods from five of its regional sites into one national distribution centre, Waitrose uses voice-directed working to set best-practice across the business.
Spiral conveyor sent to China
Being the fastest growing e-commerce market, China’s demand for in time express delivery services is huge. A prominent service player in this industry, with a nationwide service network expanding overseas, operates some 9,000 service centres with nearly 300,000 employees.
Hook helps raise angel
An intelligent cargo hook has aided the heli-lifting of a golden statue of an angel onto the top of the spire at a church in rural Surrey.
Strapping technology benefits timber supplier
International Timber, the supplier and distributor of timber and panel products, has underlined the strong reputation of Mosca strapping technology with the installation of a Mosca ROMP-5 at its site in Grangemouth, Scotland. The new machine is part of a bespoke handling and feeding system that is being used to mould timber and pack in small bundles.
Telehandler product adds to height safety
Contact Attachments has designed and supplied Cawarden Brick, the UK supplier of reclaimed period building materials, with a bespoke Man Riding Cage available from its dedicated Telehandler range.
Don’t drive faster, drive smarter
It is widely accepted that increasing forklift operating speed increases the likelihood and potential severity of accidents, so is it possible to work faster without compromising on safety?
Remove the void
The e-Cube from B+ Equipment is a proven, effective void reduction packaging solution for order fulfilment.
Labelling and identification boosts picking process
The management of any warehouse needs an effective labelling and identification system, stock needs to be identified and in its rightful place in order to maximise order picking and minimise costly errors. Beaverswood can offer a one stop shop for all your warehouse labelling and identification needs.
Partner up
Fibrelite has formed strategic partnerships with a number of major precast manufacturers in the USA and Europe.
Industry 4.0 requires intelligent interlocks
As we race towards 50 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020, Industry 4.0 presents a huge challenge to manufacturers.
Taking safety beyond compliance with SafeStart UK courses
DuPont Sustainable Solutions is to host the first UK SafeStart workshop at the Ramada Hotel Birmingham, 16-17 May 2017.
