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Hawker Powersource, Inc.
   
Top Story
Circular is the new green
  
As pressure ramps up on companies to cut their carbon footprints, more businesses are looking to the circular economy business model, a sustainability approach that focuses on decoupling economic growth from resource consumption. For companies that are serious about meeting their net-zero emissions goals, it might be time to start thinking circular.
Circular economy: A deep dive
  
Learn about the circular economy in this MHI Solutions infographic that tells you the story — by the numbers.
Meet Cimcorp at MODEX 2024
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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MHI Updates
The Scan Label Apply Manifest (SLAM) Industry Group of MHI releases infographic on SLAM technology  
The infographic serves to inform readers of key facts and information about the scan, label, apply, and manifest areas of the last 100 feet of fulfillment.
What’s the difference between pick modules and rack supported platforms?
Many warehouses today have a goal of doing all they can in their existing space — a sometimes difficult objective in an era of rapid expansion. In most cases, this comes down to maximizing their facility’s cube, either for increased throughput or higher capacity. This can mean building storage racking higher. It can also mean leveraging existing rack structures and converting them to pick modules or rack supported platforms.
   
Pflow Industries, Inc.
      
FOX IV Technologies, Inc.
   
Technology and Innovation
Keep operations on track during tech transitions
  
When companies introduce new automation and digital technology into their supply chains, they anticipate it will provide benefits like lower costs and increased production. But they’re also concerned about the potential for business disruption during transition. 
AMRs + warehouse software = a powerful combination
  
With operations increasingly unable to staff adequate labor to achieve their goals for higher throughput and productivity, more companies are turning to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). These intelligent mobility platforms help warehouse operators automate various tasks—especially the movement of goods—in an efficient, cost effective, safe and collaborative manner with minimal human intervention.
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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Ensuring sustainability through automation
Automation technology and intralogistics equipment must prioritize sustainability to ensure that their design, construction, and operation have minimal negative impact on the environment while promoting long-term resource availability. Achieving this goal involves reducing energy consumption, minimizing waste, and using environmentally friendly materials.
Education & Professional Development
8 warehouse challenges you can solve at the 2023 WERC Conference
  
From labor and data challenges to the explosive growth of e-commerce, no topic is off the table at the 2023 WERC Annual Conference — June 4-7 in Orlando. Attending puts you in the same room with front-line innovators, thought leaders and industry peers who have found new ways to thrive amid this disruption.
   
InCord
      
Signode Industrial Group LLC
   
Sustainability
MHI Annual Industry Report Series: Supply Chain Sustainability & Scope Emissions
  
Learn more about how to stay up-to-date with the latest sustainability practices by downloading the 2023 MHI Annual Industry Report: “The Responsible Supply Chain: Transparency, Sustainability, and the Case for Business” and follow along with the report video series.
Introducing fit PACK 500 Right-sized Packaging System
Tension Corporation®
With capabilities to adjust package length, width and height, the fitPACK 500 can create a package according to product dimensions, yielding smaller, right-sized packages that lead to lower shipping costs. Click to learn more on why fitPACK 500 is the perfect fit for your order fulfillment operations.
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Supply Chain Trends
Autonomous planning
  
Requiring a closed-loop planning approach utilizing a fully automated technology platform, autonomously integrated systems have the ability to oversee and control supply chains from end to end, using data and technology to plan even before orders are placed. This approach is increasingly being embraced as a solution to augment the ongoing worker shortage.
   
Generix Group
      
NORD Gear Corporation
   
Workforce
Employee resource groups enhance workplace inclusion, belonging through connection
Connection through commonalities is the linchpin of belonging, which is why companies seeking to foster a more inclusive business culture increasingly support the creation of employee resource groups (ERGs) among their ranks. 
How security cameras can transform forklift operations
In today’s fast-paced supply chain industry, forklifts play a crucial role in moving heavy materials safely and efficiently. Up until now, most forklifts lacked one major piece of security equipment: the security camera. 
For safer handling change these four manual work practices
Although automation is increasingly appearing throughout supply chains, hand laborers and material movers performing manual tasks still fill the majority of warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment jobs. Whether using automation or not, creating a safer handling environment is imperative in order to reduce the risk of worker injury. Here we explore four manual work practices that operations can change to do just that.