Designing a warehouse that enables productivity without compromising safety isn’t an easy task.
There are three important factors to consider: Safety, security and productivity. By keeping these three key elements in mind during the design process, you be able to create a warehouse that’s not only safe and secure, but also entirely productive.
Safety first always
Ensure that all warehouse personal are aware of the safety issues by making information readily available. Make use of signag... Read More
This time of year brings cold temperatures and increases the temperature variance between the indoors and the outdoors. This can lead to increased condensation or frost on a dock leveler's surface. This condensation or frost can compromise traction for fork lifts and dock employees, which leads to potential safety concerns. This is also true of the inverse situation in summer, when the outdoor temperature far exceeds the interior temperature, especially in cold storage facilities. Foam insulatio... Read More
Manufacturing engineering is a discipline of engineering that focuses on the various manufacturing practices, research, design and development of systems, processes, machines, tools and other equipment.
Once the manufacturing engineer has completed his or her studies they will be able to turn raw materials into a new or updated product in the most efficient, effective and economic way possible.
If you are looking to staff your company with the next wave of manufacturing engineers, there are ... Read More
Click here to review Pentalift's new visual aids that have been added to help you envision different surface installation configurations for dock lifts. With only 6" of retracted low height, Pentalift's Low Profile Dock Lift (LPE) allows ground level access without the need for construction of a pit. This saves installation costs and makes relocation easier than it is for pit mounted dock lifts. Since it requires no pit and has the capability to be semi-portable, a low profile dock lif... Read More
Over the last decade, manufacturing engineering has undergone several changes. Some of these changes have produced a positive impact on the industry, while others were due in part to economic downturns had a negative effect.
John Zegers, the Director for the Center of Innovation for Manufacturing at GTMI (Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute), says there’s good news ahead for manufacturing engineering in 2015.
Zegers predicts:
Reshoring will endure
Like before, manufact... Read More
Engineers are a necessity in society. They’re responsible for everything from our cars to our televisions to designing and making our dock lifts. The job of the manufacturing engineer is to ensure that everything works they way it should.
Any delays or imperfections can impact the advancement of technology and the increase of innovation. In order to be a professional in this field, one needs to be adept at analyzing productivity, allocating resources, and managing cost while maximizing prod... Read More
While Pentalift does offer a full line of pre-engineered ergonomic lift tables, our true specialty is coming up with custom solutions to overcome customers' unique application requirements. Read more on how Pentalift recently developed a custom triple scissors lift table for an international packaging company.... Read More
Lean manufacturing or lean production, often simply referred to as "lean", is a production philosophy that focuses on the idea that the expending of resources on anything aside from something that creates direct value for the customer should be considered wasteful, and therefore should be eliminated.
Lean can be used in engineering, in the design, application, and troubleshooting on production lines.
Logistics and manufacturing quality control, which covers both the physical distribu... Read More
The best engineers get their hands dirty. An engineer can draw anything in AutoCAD, but without understanding the actual processes used in a workplace, the new machinery can often cause more problems than it prevents.
Instead, engineers should observe the loading docks and assembly lines using their machinery. Understanding the entire improved process makes it likely that an engineer can create further improvements that increase productivity. There are many ways for engineers to learn about i... Read More
Staying competitive means constantly seeking out new ways to improve. Anybody who thinks that their business is perfect as-is, is probably missing something and risks getting left behind.
Of course, there are lots of areas to look for improving your business: innovating better or cheaper products, beefing up customer service, or even attempting new marketing angles.
But one of the best ways to improve your business is to identify and eliminate waste in your product manufacturing system. Wast... Read More