On-floor Seminars

Transform your business and fend off competitors by leveraging modern technology to optimize your supply chain to avoid disruptions caused by pandemics and global unrest. Material planning, scheduling, and other digital strategies reduce late inventory receipts, improve time-to-market, streamline fulfillment, ...

The technologies and chemistries used to power your lift truck fleet are more complex and customized than ever before. The key to maximizing your lift truck productivity is driven by understanding the main components of energy storage – batteries and chargers. In this session you will learn how to ...

There is increasing pressure on distribution, driven by rising costs, labor shortages, and ever-faster cycle times. The good news: a new paradigm for the smart, automated warehouse is emerging, leveraging new technologies, advanced software capabilities that include self-running warehouse operations, ...

MHI's Solutions Community is presenting the Latest & Greatest products and services that you will find at ProMat this year. Don't spend your time walking the hall hoping you find the technologies and services that will help turn operations from a cost to a profit center in under 25 minutes. Every facet ...

Automation is the buzz word of the day, but how do you know if your operation is ready for, or even needs automation? This seminar will cover areas of value in conventional warehousing that are often overlooked if not forgotten that can create a fluid, flexible operational facility without the fixed ...

Pallets are a crucial element in the world of supply chains—playing an important role in the material flow within manufacturing and distribution facilities. The flow of pallet-sized loads is continuous, complex, and often difficult to manage—making up the bulk of the costs and time of personnel working ...

Can you achieve better results by removing human-decision making in your warehouse? With the need to respond lightning fast and analyze numerous data points, are humans making the best decisions to maximize your throughput? Learn how automated decision making technology is delivering higher warehousing ...

Metal prices were at an all-time high in 2022, including the rare-earth metals used in battery manufacturing. The main contributing factors were the COVID-related supply-chain disruptions in China and around the world, the Russian war on Ukraine, and subsequent US and EU sanctions against Russia. On ...

Who knew the humble label was worth a second look in 2023? A label is essentially used on everything coming in and out of the warehouse – and has been for years. Tune in to learn from industry experts how upgrading your warehouse label printing process yields surprising productivity rewards. Join experts ...

Members of MHI’s SLAM Industry Group discuss the business case for optimizing the last 100 feet of the warehouses, fulfillment, and distribution centers. With advances in high-tech robotics and smart systems being developed and implemented upstream (e.g. robotic picking, high tech ASRS systems, etc.) ...

Discover the art of optimizing, integrating, automating, and managing the logistical flow of information, processes, and material goods throughout your entire warehouse. It’s more than just a buzzword, but only if you have the right partner to implement it. From lean management principles to management ...

When you can’t find anyone to work, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) will. The labor crisis is the most talked about topic in manufacturing, warehouses and distribution centers nationwide. Reliable, affordable, skilled labor has become somewhat of a unicorn for operations managers. Join ...

Adding automation to your order fulfillment processes is the best way to improve operational performance, but what happens when your business grows and it’s time to expand storage and throughput capacity? How long will expansion take? What will the impact be to on-going operations? Join this session ...

Many companies may believe that their business is not big enough to utilize automated fulfillment and that available solutions are too expensive for their budget. This is no longer always the case. Today’s flexible and scalable warehouse automation technologies offer viable options for many fast-growing ...

MHI’s newly formed Condition Monitoring & Reliability Committee will share lessons from real industry experiences – both painful lessons and shining successes when seeking to transform your business with condition monitoring. You can expect to learn about fundamentals of a condition monitoring solution ...