FROM THE EDITOR:
Dear Readers,
Welcome to the November 24th edition of the PEM e-newsletter. Training day at Maintrain Toronto will have been and gone by the time this arrives in your inbox. Hopefully many of you will have joined us for this informative day of hands-on learning. In the next e-newsletter, we'll have a few highlights from this year's Maintrain Toronto. Stay tuned!
Regards,
Rob Colman
PEM, Online Editor
www.pem-mag.com
rcolman@clbmedia.ca
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 MATERIALS HANDLING: Gardner Denver improves picking productivity
For any large industrial manufacturer handling 13,000 stock-keeping units (SKUs) in its assembly parts warehouse, it's no small organizational challenge to keep production requirements satisfied without a hitch. Integrate into that system a full-scale aftermarket fulfillment distribution centre (DC) with 80,000 additional active SKUs needing to be processed simultaneously, however, and you have the recipe for a potential logistics meltdown. That is unless you are Gardner Denver, Inc. In the fall of 2005, the company completed the integration of its large, dedicated aftermarket fulfillment centre into two of its production facilities, pulling off the transition in record time and without missing a logistics beat.
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INDUSTRY FORECAST: Tracking important market sector trends
By Robert Robertson
Maintenance professionals and industry manufacturers/distributors remain unsure about the economy and what next year will hold. Looking over the 2010 horizon, The Freedonia Group Inc. has been tracking the U.S. demand for bearings, as well as for heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment/industrial valves through to 2013.
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T/MC manufacturers' sales experienced slight boost, says PTDA's September Report
Chicago, IL — U.S. and Canadian manufacturers posted an increase in sales in September 2009 according to sales data released by the Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA) in its Market Outlook Report. Confidence in the U.S. market (as measured on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being most optimistic) is holding at a current negative position of 4.7 for the third consecutive month. Canadian confidence rose slightly by 0.1 from last month to 4.2.
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