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Constant vibration from forklift trucks and the need to fit more product in a limited space often challenge the integrity of racks and shelving in distribution centers.
According to recent research by the packaging machinery manufacturers' trade association, quick changeover capabilities, flexibility and fast speeds are the top three machine attributes most often requested by companies.
A newly independent International Foodservice Distributors Association plans to focus its efforts on federal government relations, industry relations and education, research, and standards and bar coding in the foodservice channel.
Only days after the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that 95 percent of its voting members had voted to authorize a strike, the union and the nation's largest unionized motor carriers averted the threatened stoppage and agreed on a new five-year contract.
Symbol Technologies Inc. has countersued a major competitor in the data capture industry, claiming Hand Held Products Inc. infringed on 12 Symbol patents.
Vocollect, a Pittsburgh-based provider of voice-directed distribution systems, achieved record sales in 2002, more than doubling its revenues over the previous year.
In its first report of the year, the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute's Business Conditions Index contains some good news for those anxiously watching the economy.
Supply chain execution software provider Provia has reported 80 client installations over the past 12 months, resulting in one of the company's most profitable years ever.