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Hawker Powersource, Inc.
   
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For ten years, MHI and Deloitte have collaborated on a series of annual reports on the state of supply chain innovation, trends and technology. At ProMat 2023 MHI’s John Paxton and Deloitte’s Wanda Johnson will provide a comprehensive overview of future trends in the supply chain industry during a keynote panel unveiling the 2023 MHI Annual Industry Report: The Responsible Supply Chain – Transparency, Sustainability and the Case for Business.
  
One important lesson learned from the pandemic was the need to address the fragility of global supply chains. To mitigate the risk of future disruption, it’s become clear that firms need to automate and invest in technology to keep up. Read the new issue of MHI Solutions to learn more.
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Cimcorp®
Discover how to save costs and time by retrofitting existing facilities with automation. Evade the expensive, lengthy, and resource-intensive process of constructing new buildings while making a meaningful impact on your sustainability efforts and strengthening your current distribution center network for future growth. Cimcorp is your strategic partner for end to end automation. Ensure dedicated time with our team by booking a meeting with us at MODEX 2024!
 
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Bringing your team to ProMat? MHI makes it easy for you to register them quickly and efficiently at no cost. The benefits of bringing a group to ProMat are many - you can map out your show strategy as a team, then divide and conquer the 1,000 exhibitors and 560,000 square foot show floor to make sure your company can personally meet with exhibitors of interest and attend all relevant educational sessions and keynotes.
   
Pflow Industries, Inc.
      
FOX IV Technologies, Inc.
   
Faster, Safer, Easier Material Handling
TAWI ®
From moving boxes and bags to container unloading, TAWI offers smart solutions for material handling. Whether you manage a distribution center or a mid-stream manufacturing process; material handling challenges exist everywhere. Commonly these include concerns of ergonomics, efficiency, and employee enablement. TAWI’s innovative vacuum lifting technologies remove the need for strength, allowing anyone to handle product, faster, safer, and easier from inbound freight to outbound order picking.
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MHI is honored that Trade Show Executive (TSE) has named its MODEX show as one of the top 50 fasting-growing shows for total attendance. MODEX 2024, the largest international supply chain expo, will be on held March 11-14, 2024 at the World Congress Center in Atlanta. The trade show will host more than 900 exhibitors, 150+ education sessions, 4 keynotes and tens of thousands of domestic and global attendees from the supply chain and manufacturing industry. 
With the daily grind of your workload, it might be hard to make time for continued education. One of the advantages of attending ProMat 2023 is the opportunity to deepen your knowledge. Our MHI Industry Groups will lead numerous ProMat seminars in Chicago that allow you to dig deeper into featured topics.
Sustainability
Many organizations have initiatives and sustainability goals to reduce their carbon footprint, cut waste, and be more energy efficient. Which means facilities are taking a closer look at the material handling equipment they use. Notably, although not typically, the first solution envisioned when thinking green, cranes, hoists, and monorails, are indeed environmentally friendly. Here are four ways companies can meet their environmental stewardship goals with sustainable overhead lifting equipment.
   
InCord
      
Signode Industrial Group LLC
   
Supply Chain Trends
  
Workforce shortages, omnichannel challenges, sustainability pressures, global trade, inflation, unpredictable demand, changing customer expectations. Supply chain problems are no longer just supply problems. They are people, customer, and end-to-end transparency problems. Throw in an unforeseen event and debilitating disruption can seem inevitable.
There are many valid reasons for wanting to enter a digital journey. Every operation is interested in getting more value out of what they have in place, and often the next logical step is to digitize operations. With a wide variety of tools now available, there is much you can do to enhance your current processes. Before you leap, it’s important to first determine what data you already have and how you can leverage that. 
Adapt your warehouse to meet modern demands
Bar Code Integrators, Inc.®
 
Between labor shortages, rising costs, supply chain problems, and surging demand from customers, it can seem like an impossible task for warehouse and distribution centers to keep up with demand and get ahead. Fortunately, there are a few simple, cost-effective ways to maximize operational performance, and actually gain competitive edge in the marketplace. Talk to our wireless data collection, RFID and bar code solutions experts at PROMAT 2023.
 
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Generix Group
      
Grenzebach Corporation
   
Workforce
  
Our Jobs of Tomorrow docuseries is now even easier to stream. We are thrilled to announce that all 24 episodes of season one are available to watch on Amazon. By exploring the technology that is changing the future of the workforce, Jobs of Tomorrow helps you get updated on emerging technology. The docuseries delivers specialty knowledge by interviewing executives, engineers, and students preparing to join the supply chain industry.
With more than 1,000 exhibitors, you may be wondering where to find new rack safety products at ProMat 2023? Check out exhibits from members of the Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI) and members of the Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA). Their booths will highlight the latest pallet rack systems and protective guarding products designed to safeguard personnel, facility structures, and inventory.