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George Weimer has been covering business and industry for almost four decades, beginning with Penton Publishing's Steel Magazine in 1968 where his first "beat" was the material handling industry. He remained with Steel for two years and stayed for two more when it became Industry Week in 1970. He subsequently joined Iron Age, where he spent a dozen years as its regional and international machine tool editor. He then re-joined Penton Publishing as chief editor of Automation Magazine and in 1993 returned to Industry Week as executive editor. He has been a contributing editor for several publications, including Material Handling Management, where his columns and feature articles regularly generated lively discussion in the industry. He has won various awards from major journalism organizations. He has covered numerous trade shows here and abroad and has spoken to various industrial and trade groups on the current issues and events of the day as they impinge on business. He remains convinced that material handling technology and logistics are two of the major sources of productivity improvement today and in the future for all industries.
The problem of recruiting workers into the distribution business? The plain truth is that your business is practically invisible to most high school students.
The logistics community has been watching with interest over the last several months as you've all competed for the top job in the U.S. political arena.
A lot of Americans blame cheap foreign labor for the perceived decline in our nation's industrial employment base, but there are two things wrong with that picture.
We rely on mechanical and technological solutions for nearly all of our problems. Or at least we do until we notice that things aren't going according to plan.
DC managers have plenty of tools at their disposal for keeping forklift batteries all charged up and ready to go. The trick is to select the right one for your particular operation.
They may look indestructible, but jumbo rolls of paper are highly vulnerable to damage?even from equipment expressly designed to handle them. How one DC perfected the art of damage-free paper handling.