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David Maloney has been a journalist for more than 35 years and is currently the group editorial director for DC Velocity and Supply Chain Quarterly magazines. In this role, he is responsible for the editorial content of both brands of Agile Business Media. Dave joined DC Velocity in April of 2004. Prior to that, he was a senior editor for Modern Materials Handling magazine. Dave also has extensive experience as a broadcast journalist. Before writing for supply chain publications, he was a journalist, television producer and director in Pittsburgh. Dave combines a background of reporting on logistics with his video production experience to bring new opportunities to DC Velocity readers, including web videos highlighting top distribution and logistics facilities, webcasts and other cross-media projects. He continues to live and work in the Pittsburgh area.
A German specialty foods producer needed a way to store large quantities of raw materials in a limited space. The answer was a new high-bay DC with a sophisticated AS/RS.
Many companies claim their material handling equipment is "green." But rarely do companies commit to the kind of environmental principles embraced by this New Jersey-based manufacturer.
What will the next two decades hold for the material handling industry? Driverless trucks? Innovations in robotic systems? Products beamed from point to point in Star Trek fashion?
Frustrated by the slow response to Hurricane Katrina, logistics professionals at the 2005 CSCMP conference sat down to come up with some fixes. From that effort, the American Logistics Aid Network, or ALAN, was born.
Despite the sub-zero temps, no one's complaining about working conditions in the freezer of North America's largest refrigerated warehouse. That's because it's "staffed" by a sophisticated mega-AS/RS that performs virtually all of the work.
Wine and spirits distributor RNDC found the answer to its space crunch—and throughput woes—in an innovative new DC that features mezzanines and state-of-the-art conveyors.
In contrast to the 1930s, there seems to be little political will these days to find the resources necessary to fund desperately needed infrastructure improvements.