August 2007
Material Handling
Tips & Information Newsletter
When you need conveyor quickly, what really matters is how it's shipped...
Most
conveyor manufacturers produce at least some stock conveyors, and claim
to ship them in 24 hours. But what can really make the difference is not
how fast it's shipped, but how it is packaged, handled, designed and
processed. Does the conveyor fit your application? Is it packaged to
avoid freight damage - and the delays that accompany damage? Is it wired
for easy, fast setup? Getting conveyors from quick ship programs: not
apples to apples...
Make
sure your pallet rack beams are being loaded correctly for safety,
capacity
Pallet rack beam capacity ratings are based on "evenly distributed loads". This refers to the front-to-back direction as well as horizontally along the beam width. But what does that really mean? How can you be certain that the way you load your racks isn't reducing beam capacities? Here are some answers...
Cisco-Eagle
wins 3rd place in 2007 CICMHE Material Handling Content Awards
The College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE) announced the winners of the 2007 Outstanding Material Handling & Logistics Content Award Competition on October 2nd at the Material Handling Industry of America’s 2007 Annual Membership Meetings. Cisco-Eagle placed for the second consecutive time with its white paper "15 Ways Material Handling Can Make Your Operation Safer." The paper focused on ways to correctly store and handle products in a warehouse or industrial environment to create a safer working environment. You can download the paper from our websit...
The Cisco-Eagle material handling blog - tips, info, insights and information
We're launching a new tool to help stay in touch with you -- one of the first Blogs in the material handling industry. It will be frequently updated with tips, articles, links, and information to help you operate better, save money, and increase productivity. It's also a place for information about Cisco-Eagle. We will have multiple authors, including Cisco-Eagle experts, educators, and industry experts.
Save space with over-conveyor workstations
How can you squeeze that extra bit of operational space from
your warehouse? At times, part of the issue isn't overall space, but
space in critical areas -- like near the conveyor lines.
Over-The-Conveyor workstations may be part of the answer. Specifically
engineered for conveyor applications where floor space is tight and the
need for work space is significant, they literally can help give you
workstations where there might otherwise have only been unused
air-space. We've seen them used for carton void filling, packing,
manifesting, testing, small parts assembly, computer stands, etc.
Of course, there are only a few ideas here, but since they are
completely modular and customizable, you can get pretty much what you
want...
The forklift is the most dangerous thing in your facility. How to stay safe...
In the U.S. alone, 1,021 workers died from traumatic injuries suffered in forklift-related incidents from 1980 to 1994.
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Each year tens of thousands of injuries related to powered industrial
trucks, or forklifts, occur in workplaces nationwide. Such accidents
also kill more than 100 workers a year. Ensure your company doesn't add
to these statistics. One of the recommendations safety experts make is
to reduce to the minimum possible the total number of forklifts in your
operation. It makes sense because that's fewer drivers (and you can
better train the ones you do have), and fewer chances for an accident.
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