During April, we promoted the following Cisco-Eagle employee-owners. Because we are employee-owned, we have many longtime employee-owners who excel at their work and can take the next step in their careers as we grow.
Shoptalk: Forklift Warning Lights
May 4, 2021
In this installment of Cisco-Eagle’s Shoptalk series, Missy, who works extensively with forklift safety lights and other accessories, discusses the different styles and types of forklift safety lights available, and how to choose the right light for your operation. Different styles of lights will bring you different levels of safety and protection. Missy lines out what each type of forklift light will do for you in this video.
Tags: Shoptalk
Posted in Safety & Ergonomics|
Congressman Kevin Hern Visits Cisco-Eagle to Discuss Supply Chain, Employee Ownership
April 27, 2021
by Scott Stone
U.S. Congressman Kevin Hern of Oklahoma’s First District visited Cisco-Eagle’s Tulsa offices on 4/5/2021 to discuss the impact of distribution, manufacturing companies that keep the supply chain moving. Congressman Hern discussed employee ownership and its positive impact on the economy during this visit.
Tags: distribution centers, manufacturing technology, Employee ownership
Posted in ESOP & Company News|
How to Design and Utilize Storage Buffers
April 20, 2021
by Scott Stone
Buffers can be found in most warehouses and manufacturing facilities, and they take many forms. You can build buffers into racks, floor space, conveyors or external storage areas like truck trailers. When you need to temporarily store materials before they enter putaway, shipment, kitting, processing, or another production process, what are some of the best design, equipment specification and usage practices?
Posted in Space Optimization & Planning|
Improve Productivity with Ergonomic Storage System Design
April 15, 2021
by Scott Stone
For order pickers, packers and others in industrial facilities, warehouse ergonomics is critical to both safety and effectiveness. The way you store and pick can enhance productivity — or hamper it. In an age of labor shortages and spiraling costs, it pays to design for ergonomics. The core of that is where you place items for picking and processing.
Posted in Safety & Ergonomics|
How to Make Packing More Efficient
April 6, 2021
by Scott Stone
Above: in this automated e-commerce distribution center, picks are packed into cartons from totes on the conveyor line. Because conveyors deliver the totes directly to workers, and the work is executed at ergonomic heights, the process is fast and efficient.
Order fulfillment is only as fast as its slowest function, and packing–often the last stop before shipping–can be a bottleneck. We’ve analyzed many operations that underestimated the needs of the packing department from the start, while others realized over time that new requirements, new SKUs and order volumes that were fine at go-live eventually bogged the packing function. It’s not unusual for picking processes to react faster and better to these conditions than the packing area.
Tags: 3PL, Third Party Logistics, ecommerce
Posted in Order Picking & Fulfillment|
Announcing the Retirements of Chris Doyle and Larry Trowbridge
April 1, 2021
by Scott Stone
From right to left: Elbert Haggard, Chris Doyle, Darein Gandall and Larry Trowbridge
Effective March 31, 2021, two of Cisco-Eagle’s longest-tenured and most influential employee-owners, Larry Trowbridge and Chris Doyle, are retiring.
Between them, Trowbridge and Doyle have served the company for 55 years and leave a legacy of friendship and excellence. We are profoundly grateful to them as they move to the next phase of their lives.
Tags: ESOP, retirement, careers, family
Posted in ESOP & Company News|
A Guide to Workstation Reach Zones
March 23, 2021
by Scott Stone
You should always analyze the economy of movement for repetitive tasks like assembly, packing, picking and repair. Imagine reaching to the same shelf, for the same carton, to pull the same part. How many times a shift does someone make that reach? How many working days a year? How many years? Shaving time and effort off a simple repetitive motion can shave time off your process and improve ergonomics over the years.
To do that, look at how many times–and places–your people reach for things on a daily basis.
Tags: workstations, ergonomics
Posted in Storage, Organization & Workstations|
Shoptalk: Vertical Conveyor Safety Gates and Enclosures
March 16, 2021
Vertical reciprocating conveyors—or VRCs—make it easy to move materials between levels, such as onto a mezzanine or down to basement storage. As you might expect, this equipment involves enclosures and access features for optimum safety. In this installment of our Shoptalk series, employee-owner Christine Perry offers a quick look at these features.
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Posted in Lifting & Lift Systems|
Download Our Guide To Workstations
March 9, 2021
Ergonomics in the warehouse is a constant focus that each operation looks to improve. You want your workers to perform better each day while reducing factors that contribute to missed time and injuries. One way to achieve this is by adding workbenches to your facility. When built to the right specifications, workbenches help people work faster, more accurately and more ergonomically. That’s why we’ve added a new guide to workstations.
Tags: workstations, ergonomics
Posted in Storage, Organization & Workstations|