Lifting Insights
Are lumper services still cost-effective for the logistics industry?
If you’re involved in the supply chain sector, you’re likely familiar with the term ‘lumper’. For those who aren’t, ‘lumping’ is a term used in the trucking industry to describe the process of loading and unloading freight by anyone other than the shipper, receiver or truck driver.
The 3 most common types of manual handling injuries
Warehouses are bustling environments, teeming with a complex array of equipment, towering stacks of products and a workforce laboring around the clock. This dynamic setting significantly heightens the risk of workplace harms and manual handling injuries.
Your Guide to Efficient Order Picking
Is inefficient warehouse order picking slowing down order fulfilment? While many operations in your warehouse can be automated, order picking remains largely manual. Human logic is required in most settings.
Enhance pick and pack operations with semi-automated solutions
Enhancing pick and pack operations in warehouses is essential for meeting the demands of the modern e-commerce landscape.
Warehouse sorting and palletizing for efficient operations
In the era of post-Covid, the significance of warehouse sorting and palletizing has grown exponentially due to the surge in online shopping and subsequent increase in demand for goods transportation. However, the fast-paced nature of this work can pose risks to the health and safety of employees, leading to burnout and high turnover rates.
Create a flexible workforce with TAWI
Warehouses and distribution centers face significant challenges with labor shortages and high employee turnover rates, leading to increased overtime and staffing issues. A flexible workforce, enhanced with vacuum lifting technology, can be a game-changer in addressing these challenges.
What is Material Handling: The Ultimate Guide
As you explore ways to streamline and optimize operations in your warehouse or production plant — it’s time to consider lifting equipment. There are a variety of lifters and accessories to choose from beyond traditional forklifts.
TAWI - Swedish Innovation since 1923
2023 marks TAWI’s 100th anniversary. One of the ways we will be celebrating this milestone is by taking a deeper look at the key brand values that have helped us on our journey and will guide us in the future. Innovation, together with transformation and partnership, are the cornerstones that form our core values and the basis of how we act as a company. They embody everything that is TAWI.
Manual handling tasks: the 5 most common tasks
Manual handling is a common and necessary task in warehouses and distribution centers. It involves the physical movement of materials, including lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, and moving objects without the aid of machinery. While manual handling is a necessary part of the job, it can also be a source of injury and discomfort.
Pharma manufacturing: main challenges and potential solutions
Pharma manufacturing is complex and sometimes hazardous industry. The manufacturing process demands precise, safe and hygienic lifting at the weighing, processing and packaging stages.
How to get more from your operations with a warehouse trolley
Warehouse management involves many diverse physical activities – from moving and handling raw materials and products to ensuring a continuous and timely flow of parts and components.
Four common challenges in warehouse order picking (and how to address them)
Within logistics, order picking often accounts for more than half of warehouse operating costs. The continued reliance on manual labor contributes significantly to the relatively high costs.
Flexibility and efficiency in the beverage industry
Never before has there been such a range of different types of beverages. While this evolution is great news for the beverage industry at large, it does pose certain efficiency challenges, particularly for production facilities, warehouses, and distribution centers.
Unloading Loose-Loaded Containers: The Efficiency Challenge
The problem of unloading containers piled high with consumer goods is so enormous, urgent, and central to post-Covid global trade that companies are forced to seek unusual solutions.
Automate your inbound logistics material handling – AND get ahead of the competition
As the growth in e-comerce continues globally, the efficiency of inbound logistics could make or break your business.
Facing manual handling challenges in the automotive industry
Automobile manufacture involves many diverse types of work across a wide range of sectors and industries. One challenge all sectors face, is that of manual handling.
Increase workplace productivity with (smart) lifting equipment
If it’s one word that describes today’s work situation, it’s BUSY. Manufacturing and logistics companies are constantly looking for ways to be more productive and get more work done in a shorter time period. Using smart material handling equipment will help you boost workplace productivity in more ways than one.
Managing risks when unpacking shipping containers
An estimated 21 million shipping containers are currently moving goods from one point to another, with over 500 million loose loaded container shipments every year. This poses challenges to container unpacking health & safety as the large majority of loose loaded containers are loaded and unloaded manually.
Lifting Trolley: 7 advantages of using trolleys for material handling
A lifting trolley come in many shapes and sizes and can be adapted to transport just about anything. In industrial and manufacturing facilities, a mobile electric lifting trolley is particularly useful. With a compact and lightweight design, they are easy to move around and use when space is limited.
How to work smarter (and more efficiently) with vacuum lift systems
Effectively implementing vacuum lifters in your operations can save both time and money. This article explores the advantages of lifting aids in general, with a particular focus on the benefits of vacuum lift systems.
The challenge of (safe) airport baggage handling
Manual handling of baggage and cargo in airports present a great risk of injury to ground handlers. The back and shoulders are the areas of the body most exposed to injury in airport baggage handling.