Corrugated Steel Containers
Material Handling Industry of America
Material Handling Online Semi-Automatic Palletizer Article
- Material Handling Classics - papers from 1970s and 1980s
- Perspectives on Material Handling - papers from 1992 to present
- Industrial Metal Containers
Membership Magazines
- Institute of Industrial Engineers - IE Solutions
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Mechanical Engineering
- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences - OR/MS Today
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers - Manufacturing Engineering
- APICS - APICS: The Performance Advantage
- Women in Packaging - Packaging Horizons
Trade Magazines
- Material Handling Management
- Material Handling Product News
- Modern Materials Handling
- MHN - Material Handling Network
- Material Handling Wholesaler
- Food Engineering
- Food Explorer
- ID Systems
- Industrial Equipment News
- Intelligent Manufacturing (Archives contain articles on warehousing, logistics)
- Lifting and Transportation International
- Logistics Management and Distribution Report
- Packaging Digest
- Parcel Shipping & Distribution
- Powder and Bulk Engineering
- Plant Engineering (Channel: Material Handling)
- Robotics World
- Transportation and Distribution
- Warehousing Management
Engineering Societies
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Material Handling Engineering Division
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
- Institute of Industrial Engineers
- Operational Research Society
- Society of Logistics Engineers
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Business-oriented Societies
- American Production and Inventory Control Society
- American Society of Transportion and Logistics
- Association of Professional Material Handling Consultants
- Council of Logistics Management
- Institute of Logistics and Transport - Warehousing and Materials Handling
- Institute of Packaging Professionals
- Materials Handling and Management Society
- Warehouse Education and Research Council
- Women in Packaging
Trade Associations
- Association for Automatic Identification and Data Capture Technologies
- British Materials Handling Federation
- Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association
- Food Distributors International
- Industrial Distribution Association
- Industrial Truck Association
- International Association of Refigerated Warehousers
- ISTA: The Association for Transport Packaging
- Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association
- Material Handling Industry of America
- National Electrical Manufacturers Association
- National Wooden Pallet and Container Association
- Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute
- Robotics Industry Association
- Warehousing and Distribution Resource Center
- World Packaging Organisation - PackInfo-World
Government Agencies
- National Science Foundation
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- US Department of Agriculture>
- US Department of Commerce
- US Department of Labor
- US Department of Transportation
Standards Organizations
- ANSI
- ASME MHED - conveyors, industrial trucks, pallets and slipsheets, etc.
- ISO
- Uniform Code Council (UPC, EAN, etc.)
Research Groups
- Michael Cole's Material Handling Page
- CELDi: Center for Engineering Logistics
and Distribution
(U.Arkansas, U.Oklahoma, U.Louisville, Oklahoma State U) - Center for Unit Load
Design
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute) - CPLOM: Center for Production,
Logistics, and Operations Management
(University of Twente) - Global Manufacturing Logistics
Doctoral Program
(Lehigh University and The Wharton School) - Keck Virtual Factory
Laboratory
(Georgia Institute of Technology) - Mack-Blackwell National Rural
Transportation Study Center
(University of Arkansas) - Pallet and Container
Research Laboratory
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute) - PROLOG: Production and
Logistics Laboratory
(Northwestern University) - School of Industrial Engineering
(Purdue University) - TAMCAM Computer Automated Manufacturing
Lab
(Texas A&M University) - TLI: The Logistics Institute
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
(Montana State University)
Taxonomy
- Material Handling Equipment Taxonomy
- Basic Material Handling Equipment: An Outline of Categories and Slides
Directories
- MHIA Product Sections and Councils
- Google > Business > Industries > Industrial Supply > Materials Handling
- AGV Manufactures
- Thomas Register (Material Handling)
- www.contract-packaging.net
Vendors/consultants
- Powell Systems, Inc. (Steel Containers, Palletizers, Fillers)
- Gross and Associates
- elogistics101 (Art Avery)
- MHC Material Handling Consultants
- N State Packaging Equipment and Supply
- ValuMotion Supply(Industrial and Warehouse Equipment)
Conveyors
Lift trucks
- Forklift troubleshooting,
operation, service, repairs, and service
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Auto ID (barcoding, etc.)
- Introduction to barcoding TAL Technologies, Inc.
Racks
Casters
Misc.
Continuing Education
- TLI: The Logistics Institute (Georgia Tech branch)
- Institute of Logistical Management
- INFORMS provides a directory of short courses that emphasize operations research approaches
Miscellaneous
- www.inventoryops.com - warehousing and inventory information
- Small Shop
Layout
Layout tips for garage-sized woodshops - Safety and security
Gage-Babcock & Associates provide many links related to fire safety and security - logistics.about.com
- USPS
Protest No. 88-77
An interesting article about the use of weighted factor analysis for contracting warehouse operations - Articles on using CAD for
facility layout
Owens Industrial Engineering Consulting - Progressive
Distributor
A trade magazine about the distributor business - Materials
Handling and Packing Occupations
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, Wage Hour Division - The Case of
the Lakewood "Hi-Stak"
Ethics case study from Texas A\&M University - Safety Points newsletters
- Material Handling books
- Unions
- Checklists
- Manufacturing Evaluation - by the U.S. Air Force (?)
- Ergonomics
- Pollution Prevention - by state of Maryland
- Tutorial/Glossary for automated material handling control systems and AS/RS.
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