How to Enhance Forklift Capabilities With Attachments and Accessories
As a warehouse owner or manager, you likely depend on forklifts (aka lift trucks) as essential to your operation. Between loading and unloading pallets, stocking shelves and transporting other items, they make a huge difference in your overall productivity and efficiency. However, you many not be as familiar with the different types of “front-end” and…
How to Optimize Loading Dock Efficiency
Loading docks are crucial to warehousing operations. They facilitate the loading and unloading of materials and products and play an important role in creating an efficient flow through the warehouse. However, loading docks have inherent challenges that can impede operations and even threaten worker safety. Optimizing these spaces with the right equipment and technology, along…
Tips for Selecting the Right Pallet Rack for Your Warehouse
A quality pallet racking system can enhance your warehouse’s operational efficiency and space utilization. Many key factors impact the best option for your unique layout and processes. You will need to be thoughtful about your decision to ensure you choose the ideal configuration to match the needs of your facility and enhance daily workflows. Below…
The Top 12 Most Important Safety Tips for Forklift Operators
Forklifts are critical components of many projects, and they are also potentially dangerous pieces of heavy equipment. In 2022, forklifts were related to 73 workplace deaths and nearly 25,000 Days Away From Work, Job Restriction or Transfer (DART) cases. Transportation incidents were the leading cause of all incidents. Protect your team, pedestrians and machinery with…
Common Problems With Loading Dock Equipment
Your loading dock area is likely one of the busiest in your facility. With constant foot traffic, and forklifts moving heavy loads to and from trucks and trailers, and constant stress from weather elements, these areas can quickly face problems. As issues surface on the loading dock they need to be address promptly to avoid…
AGVs vs. AMRs: Exploring the Key Differences in Warehouse Automation
Today, tasks like moving, packing, loading and unloading goods are more advanced than ever. Industries can use state-of-the-art mechanisms to complete operations more efficiently, resulting in fewer labor-intensive tasks and increased productivity and revenue. Improving your processes with robotic automation allows you to stay ahead of your industry, streamline processes, maximize efficiency and enhance working…
A Guide to Warehouse Automation
Warehouse automation has transformed the nature of the industry, bringing robotics, equipment and software to nearly every task in the facility. As automation technology becomes more attainable and affordable, warehouse organizations must have a pulse on it. Adopting automation techniques will be crucial to staying competitive and getting ahead of the curve. As a trusted…
The Future of AMRs and AGVs in Material Handling
In December 2022, OTTO Motors hosted “The Best of Both Worlds: Unlocking the Productivity of AGVs and AMRs”: a webinar that analyzed the differences between AMRs and AGVs, from their technology to their applications. This webinar introduced the idea of Graph-based Planning, an algorithm that enables manufacturing facilities to achieve the benefits of both AMRs and AGVs…
Benefits of Material Handling Equipment Solutions
Warehouses and distribution centers are busy work environments that require a steadfast focus on efficient layout and workflow to optimize productivity and remain competitive in their market. Thankfully, forward-thinking facility operators have a variety of material handling equipment and design solutions at their disposal to improve dock-to-stock cycle times and order-picking capacity, reduce product damage,…
Should You Rent, Buy or Lease a Forklift?
Forklifts fulfill critical material handling applications each day by helping workers lift and move products and raw materials across varying applications, distances, and heights. Choosing the right forklift for your operation involves careful thought and consideration. After you determine what type of forklift you need, you still have a crucial decision to make — how…
