Story and Photo by Patricia Barrett Arborg’s Home Hardware earned much praise last Sunday from the company’s senior management team for its innovative moveable shelving displays and storage units. Every year, the hardware and building supply company’s senior managers and board of directors tour stores across Canada. This year was Manitoba’s turn. Click here to read […]
by Luc Seesing President of SMD Machinery Originally posted here General productivity at sheet metal fabricators and machine shops, is measured by how much input is required to get a certain output. Often “O.K-looking” numbers show up. Fair enough. But if you look a little closer, at how much capital and space is wasted with […]
It feels a little paradoxical, equating lifesaving devices with clutter and their placement with inconvenience, but the standard remains — hospitals are to maintain free and unobstructed access to all exits, minimize fire risk, eliminate pickup parking lots, establish a clear line and destination for bed and patient transport, and maintain the integrity of the […]
Guest columnist Dean Dueck of Vidir explains how the rack and pinion drives, simplified controls architecture and ergonomic loading/unloading design of the latest generation of automated vertical lifts for sheet metal storage enable smaller shops to improve safety and minimize downtime. Click here to read the full story.
Vertical lifts allow metalforming shops to control inventory safely. The growing movement toward smaller order sizes and just-in-time delivery has placed very high demands on all aspects of manufacturing, including sheet metal forming. The technologies for mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic presses used for metalworking have adapted, with improved automation and drive engineering, and extremely fast […]
Thanks to Vidir’s Pan Carousel, Santa and his elves can rest a little easier this holiday season. Our Pan Carousel increases storage space while maintaining or even minimizing footprint. In addition to utilizing overhead storage space to maximize space, our vertical storage carousels are built on the product to operator principle, reducing the need for reaching, […]