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Customer engagement – Delivering on promises Three months ago, I started a multi-part series about how “details matter” in our current business environment. As I have said in prior issues, a dealership’s image and ongoing reputation is formed by what customers see, how they are engaged, and how they are communicated with. The first article discussed how what a customer sees, affects his perception of what to expect from a dealership. In the second article, we reviewed the keys to an effective and purposeful customer engagement experience for those customers that visit your place of business. Last month we expanded on the customer experience, but from the perspective of how a customer is engaged using the telephone. This is the final chapter to this set of articles about how “details matter.” We have discussed at length how our dealership should look. We have also explored the best ways to engage the customer in order to create a positive customer experience. The final piece to this puzzle is to actually deliver quality products and services. Delivering what you promise is not just important, it’s crucial. The best customer engagement in the world is worthless if you can’t execute, or if you disregard the important details that people are likely to notice. Fit and finish are important, both in the product you sell, and the services you render. I want to share a couple of examples of companies I have visited where the image and mission statement they wanted to convey to their customers were greatly affected by missing some of the details and not paying attention to creating visual excellence and quality customer experiences. Example 1 - Commitment to quality Most everyone has visited, or at least heard of the Bass Pro Shops. This is a nationwide organization that sells everything from boats, to guns, to camping equipment. If you do it outdoors, Bass Pro Shops has what you need. Visiting one of these stores is an event. High quality taxidermy can be found throughout the store staged in a way makes you feel like you have walked into a high-country setting. Huge aquariums feature live saltwater game fish, and monster trout 12
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swimming in a replicated mountain stream. Fishing demonstrations, and educational events are sponsored almost every weekend. In all ways this store represents the best in outdoor apparel, equipment and supplies. Earlier this year I stopped by the Bass Pro Shop (which happens to be just a couple miles from my home), to purchase a fishing license. While waiting in line, I surveyed the store and watched the employees as they helped their customers. I then turned toward the counter and saw their “goal statement” proudly displayed behind the service desk. The goals listed were as follows: • Price • Service • Quality • Selection Then disappointment set in. A company that invests so heavily in the proud image of providing QUALITY, should at least repair the sign that touts their key objectives. If you notice in the photo below, the “T” in the word “Quality” had fallen off the sign. Is this a big deal in the grand scheme of things? No. Did I still buy the license? Yes. But the image of Bass Pro Shops that I had built in my mind was forever altered by one minor detail. Example 2 – High Brow Venus One Saturday morning, my wife, some friends and I decided to have brunch at the Grand Island Mansion. This facility is a remote mansion on the Sacramento Delta and is known for its sweeping views and beautiful architecture. It is a much sought-after venue for weddings, anniversaries and corporate events. The mansion was completed in 1920, and features four levels, expansive ballrooms and manicured gardens with multiple outside event spaces. The brunch was
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through that many dealers relax, and in that moment, they can sorely disappoint a customer. 1. Will call notifications If parts are sitting in the will call area for over 10 business days, not enough is being done to communicate with the customer. The job actually ends when the parts are in their hands. 2. Worn out boxes and packaging Techs carry parts in their vans, and in the process, boxes rub together and the labeling and condition of the packaging deteriorates. Some of these parts end up being returned to the parts department for one reason or another. The contents may be perfectly fine, but the condition of the box may not be suitable for selling that part in an over the counter purchase. Is your parts staff tuned in to that? Do they have tools available to repackage parts? 3. Invoicing Are your invoices understandable? Do you have a review process in place prior to invoicing? Does the work description on the invoice make sense? Are there spelling errors? Does it tell a story you can defend? The best way to assess if an invoice is suitable for the customer is to read it, and then ask yourself “would I pay this bill?” If you wouldn’t pay it, I doubt that your customer will either. 4. F ollow up on repairs by admin or sales staff Does someone on your team follow up on work performed and gauge customer satisfaction? Many times, we conclude that if we didn’t hear anything negative from the customer, then it must be OK. You can’t fix what might be wrong if you are afraid to look at the results. 5. PM coordination Do you call customer prior to showing up for a PM service? If not, how many times have you waited for a truck to be unloaded? How many customers decline and reschedule the service, when a simple phone call would not only save money, but represent to the customer that you respect his patronage? 6. Fleet management tools Do you offer fleet management tools? You can sell equipment, but if you don’t have a way to track
Aftermarket expenses and repairs after the sale, how can you prove your claims? How do you get the next order? This information allows the aftermarket department to have meaningful conversations with customers regarding their fleet on an ongoing basis. It should be a standard offering with every unit delivered.
with me any experiences that you have had that proved to you that “details matter.” I look forward to hearing from you. Dave Baiocchi is the president of Resonant Dealer Services LLC. He has spent 33 years in the equipment business as a sales manager, aftermarket director and dealer principal. Dave now consults with dealerships nationwide to establish and enhance best practices, especially in the area of aftermarket development and performance. E-mail editorial@mhwmag. com to contact Dave.
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Bottom Line Garry Bartecki
Use golden handcuffs to grow business It is truly wonderful when business is good. You can pay down some bills. Have extra bucks to repair or replace needed equipment. Pay down bank loans. Pass out some bonuses. Take a vacation. Put some money in your retirement accounts. But then reality sets in. You have the business right there in front of you, but you don't have the manpower to do the work in a profitable, efficient manner. What is going on? Where are the experienced workers you need to operate a material handling dealership? Qualified techs are in short supply. Sales personnel without a non-compete are non-existent. And if qualified candidates are out there how come you are not getting a fair share of the talent pool? So, the question comes down to what you have to do to first attract people to your company and, once you sign them up, convince them to stay the course. It's the "convincing" part that gets tough because you are competing with every other dealer and rental company out there for worker services. That being the case your "convincing" has to be better than that being offered by the competition, but not to the extent where it puts you in the poor house. So how do you get there? Two ways based on what I am seeing out there. 1. Improve employee benefit plan offerings 2. M ake your employees your partner. (Don't panic-there is a win-win solution.) Both suggestions are employee benefit plans. One is pretty easy to do and the other more involved, but in addition to being an employee benefit it helps shareholders get money off the table as part of the implementation (win-win.) Share the gains
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Both the 401K and profit-sharing plans are reviewed and managed by the IRS. There are annual compliance requirements, tax report filings, reporting requirements, investment decisions to make, and fiduciary liability issues if you manage the plans on your own. One option that is gaining popularity is the Multiple Employer Plan (MEP) which allows small employers to band together to obtain more favorable plan investment results and more efficient and less expensive management services. MEP's take all the work off of your shoulders; place you in a large, powerful group in a unified plan; and provide the advantages of a stand-alone sponsor with avoidance of the expenses and administrative burden of a single employee plan. Bottom line....a sophisticated plan to manage retirement benefits without the headaches and cost of managing it yourself. If you wish to focus on certain levels of management or individuals you can use various forms of deferred comp, also with vesting schedules to keep the golden handcuffs in force. If you need someone to help you devise a plan or plans that will work for you, one option is Tal Diekvoss with Fiduciary Management Group. He can be reached at (920)318-1007 or tdiekvoss@ fiduciarymg.com. ESOP benefits
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I have seen the advantages of ESOP's for equipment dealers and rental companies. They can truly provide financial gains for both shareholders as well as employees, IF (and that is a big IF) your company qualifies for an ESOP transaction.
Bottom Line In an ESOP transaction shareholders sell their stock or equity to the ESOP for fair market value. The shares owned by the ESOP are then allocated to employees based on compensation levels. Over a 10-15 year time period, the shares have the ability to gain value which in turn is transferred to the employee owned shares. Upon retirement the employee vested benefits are paid out to the employees over a period of time.
about them in the marketplace. That’s why I have asked a few friends to sponsor a one-day ESOP Employee Benefit Seminar (at zero cost) on May 30, 2018 in Chicago. The purpose of the seminar is twofold: 1. T o introduce you to ESOP’s and other tools to help with recruitment and retention of employees.
What is great for the employees is there is no cost attached to this financial opportunity. Just do your job and generate profits and cash flow. It’s not a short term investment, but one that can be quite lucrative in the long run. Many ESOP member employees I connect with say they are satisfied with the results. But I am sure if I look hard enough I will find ESOP employees that had negative experience. Of course, there are No guarantees here....the company has to continue to be profitable to make it work.
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ESOP's are also great for shareholders because of the tremendous tax and other benefits associated with an ESOP transaction. You all have to transition out at some point and even if you are not ready to retire the ESOP can make financial sense to complete now and keep working until you retire. Shareholders benefit, employees benefit and are inclined to stay for the long haul, and recruits will be enticed by the “shareholder” possibility. But before we get carried away let me say I am experienced in this area and have to tell you that you have to produce a clean set of books, a clean balance sheet, equity in the business and annual profits and cash flow. Otherwise it may be tough to complete an ESOP transaction.
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Garry Bartecki is a CPA MBA with GB Financial Services LLC. Wintrust Commercial Banking and its national E-mail editorial@mhwmag.com to contact Garry. ESOP Practice Group will be the host and sponsor of the event along with CSG Partners and Fiduciary Management Group. Wintrust has ESOP dealer and rental experience, CSG Partners is the ESOP expert. Tal Diedvoss will represent Fiduciary Management Group and I, along with Steve Pierson (my dealer tax guru), will answer questions about the process and what to expect along the way.
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S-S, Forks S-S, 42” Forks 3Way, Forks 3Way, Forks 4Way S-S/F-P, 60” Forks S-S, Forks S-S, Forks S-S, Forks 60” Forks
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2010 Yale ERP050VL 2011 Yale ERP050VL 2011 Yale ERP050VL
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2007 2007 1992 2007 2004 2012 1999 2001 2007 2008 2007 2007
Crown RR5210-40 Crown RR5210-40 Hyster N30FR Hyster N35ZR Hyster N40XMR3 Jungheinrich ETR230 Yale NR035ADN Yale NR035AE Yale NR035DA Yale NR035EAN Yale NR040AEN Yale NR040DAN
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Eric Baker | Staffing, training and ownership thoughts
Four steps for avoiding a bad hiring decision Let’s look, for a moment, at the process of buying a car. It’s a big decision with many steps. First, you have to determine your price range, compile a list of possible models, and compare specs. Then you research safety features, performance reviews and reliability ratings. Finally, you take test drives until you find the one that fits you and your lifestyle the best. Even after putting in all that work, you could still end up with the wrong car. Maybe you can cut your losses and trade it in on another one, but you still wasted a lot of time and money. Hiring a new employee is a lot like buying a car, and the consequences of a bad choice can be even more catastrophic. Time and money wasted, sure, but there’s also lost productivity and the hidden costs of turnover to consider. Yet you must make this hiring decision with far less information than you have when buying a car. There are no consumer reports on would-be employees, and you don’t get to try them out for free (and none of them come with a sunroof, either). However, there are steps you can take to limit the likelihood of hiring the wrong person. Companies that integrate clear steps into the hiring process not only increase their hit rate, they build up their bench strength of future leaders and other promotable contributors. 1. Define the success factors Many organizations focus on developing a detailed list of job tasks instead of determining what kind of person is best suited for a role. Instead of trying to find a person who checks a bunch of “experience” boxes, it’s a good idea to develop a specific success model for each open position. Before you even start looking at applicants, decide what the role needs to accomplish, how it interacts with other people and processes inside and outside the company, and how it fits into the overall company strategy. Is it a structured role steeped in process or an unstructured role? What’s the level of client contact? How much independent problem solving is involved?
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Once you have established the true position requirements, such as Manages projects independently or Follows rules diligently, you’ll have your success factors. Your top candidate is the one whose motivations and strengths align with the factors you have identified, not necessarily the one who has been trained in a specific task. 2. Use a valid pre-employment assessment Good HR professionals and recruiters, whether contracted or in-house, should be able to source a field of ostensibly viable candidates. However, a candidate’s past experience does not equate to future success. In other words, there are plenty of mediocre applicants who did enough to stick around somewhere and pad their resume. A scientifically validated personality assessment (i.e., one based on hard data and R&D-tested to ensure validity) will tear down façades and show a person’s intrinsic motivations. If one of your success factors is Sustains client relationships, for example, the assessment will show the difference between an applicant who is merely personable and one who is an attentive listener, service-minded and responsive to stakeholder input. If someone’s personality drivers line up with your success factors, you’ve found the connection that often translates into top performance. 3. Ask behavior-based interview questions Behavior-based interview questions effectively circumvent vague claims of accomplishment by asking candidates for specific examples about how they have handled job-relevant situations. Imagine that an applicant for a customer-service role writes “Achieved 94% customer-satisfaction rate” on his resume. That could be a made-up number, or it could be apropos of nothing that the individual actually did. A behavioral interview question here can be, “Talk about a time you dealt effectively with an upset customer on your own. What was the problem and how did you resolve it?” After a few questions along these lines, you’ll begin to gain clarity around the applicant’s ingenuity in service situations, his decision-making style, his
Human Element client focus, and his attentiveness as a listener. To take it further, come up with a consistent set of questions for each role and then determine a system for scoring responses (e.g., 1 for poor, 2 for fair, and 3 for good) so you can quantify which applicants delivered the strongest answers. Make sure you ask all the applicants the same questions, and preferably, have one person ask the questions and another do the scoring. This approach reduces bias.
for the first six months of tenure to keep potentially good hires from turning bad due to misalignment and lack of communication. Put together a true onboarding program that fully integrates new hires not only into the role but into the company culture as well. Moreover, use the personality data you’ve collected to build a customized development plan for each employee that maximizes strengths while compensating for limitations.
Sometimes, the problem isn’t a bad hiring decision; it’s bad post-hiring decisions.
By devoting a little extra time, money, and attention up front, you will return on your investment many times over when you have the right people in place who are not only motivated and productive but also willing to stick with you for the long haul.
A big mistake companies often make with new employees is to assume their training and development needs are the same as everyone else’s. As revealed by the results of the pre-employment personality assessment, people are different from each other (surprise!) Employee development, as a general concept, should be an ongoing focus. However, it is especially critical for hiring managers to stay involved
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Sales Trends Jeffrey Gitomer
Value is the king of sales and the queen of service Value is perhaps the most illusive word in sales. Everyone will tell you how important it is, very few can tell you what it is. I've already gone on ad nauseam about my distaste for the words "added value." I recommend you leave them out of your sales lexicon forever. "Added value" has an evil twin: "value add," neither of which can be defined in terms of what the customer actually benefits or profits from. Added value is usually some minor service or hardto-define extra that the customer already expects, or takes for granted anyway. Things like: • • • •
In order for you to understand the word "value" as it relates to your ability to making a sale, put the word "perceived" in front of it. If you think it's valuable, and your customer doesn't perceive it to be valuable, it ain't value. Your customer is looking to increase THEIR sales, THEIR customer loyalty, THEIR employee loyalty, THEIR productivity, THEIR morale, THEIR profit, and to have no problems. Are those the values you bring to the table? No? Why not? Those are the value elements that any customer would consider worthy of the word. Your little add-on services are more of a bonus than a value. And don't just bring them one time - consistency is the key. My secret for delivering weekly value to my customers is this column. And throw in my weekly ezine, Sales Caffeine on top of that. Two weekly value messages. Throw in four tweets a day, that's 22 value www.MHWmag.com
The value is missing from the MISSION. Most companies have a meaningless mission statement that was created by a marketing department. It's all about being number one, exceeding customer expectations, and building shareholder value. Barf. • • • •
What's your real mission? Is it different from your mission statement? Where's the value to the customer? Isn't that the real mission?
What you need is a value proposition and a value statement that explains fully:
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Those are not VALUE - those are a GIVEN. Those elements are expected. They are NOT incentive to buy - rather they're just part of your business offering.
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And a mission statement that matches it. A value proposition states what you do in terms of how a customer benefits. For example: You might say, "We provide 4-hour service response." A "value proposition" way of stating the same thing is, "When equipment is broken or needs repair, production stops. That's why we instituted 4-hour or less service response. That way there is minimal loss of productivity and job profitability." Same words, stated in terms of how the customer wins. Value is important to a prospective customer for three reasons: 1. It differentiates you from the competition. 2. It gives the customer understandable reasons to purchase. 3. I t gives the customer the peace of mind they need to move forward. To buy.
Sales Trends Value is important to an existing customer for three reasons: 1. It builds real relationship. One based on value. 2. It makes reorders more automatic and less bid driven. 3. I t eliminates competition. Most competitors thrive on "saving a customer money." NOTE: Customers don't want to save money as much as they want to produce more and make more profit.
as value by the customer. The more you put value in terms of how they win, how they profit, and how they produce, the more it will be perceived as true value, or real value. And in the end, the value that you receive back will be the order. That's value. Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of twelve best-selling books including The Sales Bible, The Little Red Book of Selling, and The Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude. His real-world ideas and content are also available as online courses at www.GitomerLearningAcademy.com. For information about training and seminars visit www.Gitomer.com or email Jeffrey at editorial@mhwmag.com.
At the end of any sales transaction, or when an existing customer has a need, that's when "perception of value" plays its heaviest role. If the customer perceives a difference in you, and perceives a reassuring value in terms of how he wins, the sale is yours. If not, the sale goes to the person with the lowest price. Lowest price always means lowest profit. The more you become proficient at stating value in terms of the customer, the more it will be perceived
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Your Business Eileen Schmidt
FSIP celebrates five decades of operation In five decades of operation, Flight Systems Industrial Products has perfected the ability to evolve and grow. Starting in 1968 as an aircraft and strobe runway light designer and manufacturer, today the business serves a variety of industries globally. Flight Systems Industrial Products, also known as FSIP, provides electronic products for numerous markets and boasts a trained engineering and sales staff to offer assistance with new design applications, according to the company. The business makes new and remanufactured electronic products used in electric and gas-powered vehicles, as well as providing manufacturing services for original equipment manufacturer products to “help limit the potential for product obsolescence,” the website says.
The original operation, with its focus on aerospace, contributed electronics to five of NASA’s Apollo launch vehicles and two Skylabs. In the following years, the business expanded into material handling markets. FSIP now works with industries including industrial trucks, golf carts, scrubber-sweeper, mining cars/locomotives, electric boats, go-karts and support equipment. The 50th anniversary of the company is “a big deal for us,” said Pam Jones, director of sales and marketing for FSIP, who said the milestone offers an opportunity to appreciate how far the business has come. “The company started with just a handful of people,” said Jones, who said when FSIP changed ownership in 1999 and was renamed to include industrial products, it had $1.5 million in revenue. In the years since, that number has soared to over $20 million.
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Your Business Today, FSIP employs 118 workers, both at its headquarters in Carlisle Penn., and in Addison, Ill. The second location is a relatively new addition to the FSIP fleet and follows the purchase of ARS Solutions, LLC in 2017. The purchase afforded the business the opportunity to have a site in the Chicago area, Jones said. Of paramount importance to the FSIP operation is its longstanding relationships with its OEMs. Many of these include agreements with vehicle OEM’s, and the manufacture of the electronic parts, according to Jones. “We remanufacture over 9,000 different part numbers. We also manufacture over 2,000 parts and distribute about 1,000 new products,” she said, adding that design work is another important component of the business. Jones stressed that when FSIP remanufactures a product, the team does a complete analysis and full rebuild, ensuring the product is upgraded to the latest standards. FSIP puts extra emphasis on customer service and staffs a full sales, marketing and customer service team, according to Jones. “Quality products are important to us, and customer service. We highly stress that here,” she said. “No matter how small or large the customer is, they are extremely important to us.” In 2010, FSIP acquired all assets of GE Motion Control, and electric vehicle control and parts are now exclusively manufactured in the Carlisle location. And in the last two years, the company has forged its way into battery maintenance and product lines.
The business will continue to mark its 50th year with staff and customers, Jones said, through hosting celebratory events and sharing promotional offerings. Eileen Schmidt is a freelance writer and journalist based in the Greater Milwaukee area. She has written for print and online publications for the past 12 years. Email editorial@mhwmag.com or visit eileenmozinskischmidt.wordpress.com to contact Eileen.
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The majority of the operation’s customers are in the U.S. but Jones said FSIP also does a lot of international business with its distributors and dealer network. As FSIP looks to the coming years of operation, Jones said the company will continue to maintain and develop relationships with OEMs. “It’s important for us to keep growing relationships as technology changes so we can change along with it,” she said. Along those lines, this year FSIP released an e-commerce store at shop.fsip.biz, which will allow customers to order online, and have access to their accounts to check the status of their orders and track shipment. The store is “a big advancement,” according to Jones.
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Rail industry maintains strong safety record Newly released data from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) confirms that recent years remain the safest ever for U.S. railroads. Through employee commitment to safety and investments in maintenance and new technologies, the industry has maintained the strong safety record of recent years, with the train accident rate down 28 percent in the last decade and last year marking the lowest rate of trackcaused and human factor-caused accidents ever. Notable statistics, calculated per million train miles using March 2018 FRA data, include: • Train accident rate is down 44 percent since 2000. • Equipment-caused accident rate is down 38 percent since 2000. • Track-caused accident rate is down 55 percent since 2000. • Human factor-caused accident rate is down 45 percent since 2000. • Derailment rate is down 42 percent since 2000. “Every day, the men and women of the rail industry are making a safe network safer,” said Association of American Railroads (AAR) President and CEO Ed Hamberger. “Investments in technology and employee training to advance safety in recent years have yielded significant gains that make railroading in America safer and more reliable than ever.” The industry remains concerned about driver and pedestrian safety as this most recent data shows a 22 percent increase in trespassing deaths compared to 2016. Every three hours someone is hit by a train in the United States, and these accidents are almost entirely preventable. Every year, railroads spend millions to maintain and improve grade crossings as well as work directly with communities and law enforcement to educate the public about safe behavior near tracks. “While the safety of rail operations remains strong, our job is not done,” said Hamberger. “The rise in pedestrian deaths in 2017 is a stark reminder of the perils of risky behavior around railroad tracks. Don’t 28
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Equipment leasing and finance industry confidence eases in March The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) releases the March 2018 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI). Designed to collect leadership data, the index reports a qualitative assessment of both the prevailing business conditions and expectations for the future as reported by key executives from the $1 trillion equipment finance sector. Overall, confidence in the equipment finance market is 72.2 in March, easing slightly from 73.2 in February. When asked about the outlook for the future, MCI-EFI survey respondent Anthony Cracchiolo, President and CEO, U.S. Bank Equipment Finance, said, “We are seeing growth in capex spending across a broad segment of the economy. While some areas are expanding more quickly than others, all are moving in a positive direction. Businesses are more positive then we have seen in over a decade and activity is picking up momentum. The equipment finance industry is healthy and poised to support the expanding economy.” March 2018 survey results: The overall MCI-EFI is 72.2 in March, easing from 73.2 in February. When asked to assess their business conditions over the next four months, 54.8% of executives responding said they believe business conditions will improve over the next four months, an increase from 46.4% in February. 45.2% of respondents believe business conditions will remain the same over the next four months, a decrease from 53.6% the previous month. None believe business conditions will worsen, unchanged from the previous month.
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Peak Equipment to represent Columbia Machine Columbia Machine is excited to announce that Peak Equipment has joined the Columbia family as an outside sales agency representing Columbia’s complete line of palletizing and load transfer solutions throughout Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. Peak Equipment, headquartered in Mead, CO, was established in 1994 and is a family run full service manufacturer’s representative agency. As a customer focused company Peak Equipment is a great addition as they bring over 20 years of experience and already serve a variety of industries including food, bakery, chemical, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and more. Columbia Machine manufactures inline high speed, high-level, floor-level and robotic palletizers, load transfer stations and provides system integration. www.palletizing.com
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Dematic launches Robotics Center of Excellence Dematic announces the formation of the Robotics Center of Excellence business unit, dedicated to the development and engineering of robotic automation. The new business unit is responsible for the application and implementation of robotic solutions that make order fulfillment operations more efficient, productive and responsive to today’s on-demand omni-channel distribution environment. The Dematic Robotics Center of Excellence provides a wide variety of automated solutions built around process improvements, robotic technology, vision and software. These solutions are applied in all functional areas of the warehouse from receiving to shipping. Typical solutions include de-layering, de-palletizing, bin replenishment, goods-to-robot piece picking, kitting, crossbelt and pouch sorter induct, palletizing and trailer loading. Solutions are designed to handle pieces, cases, totes, layers and pallets. Crystal Parrott joins the new entity as Vice President, Robotics Center of Excellence. Parrott brings more than 28 years of robotics and automation experience to the role and will be responsible for leading all robotics initiatives, driving the robotics road map and guiding, coordinating and supporting the generation of robotic solutions. www.dematic.com
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Kardex Remstar is launching a new cloudbased remote support platform, which focuses on continuously monitoring the status of a customer’s installed systems and remotely maintaining them when necessary. This new digital solution for condition monitoring and maintenance of automated storage systems will enable customers to use their machines at maximum efficiency. In times of increasing competitive pressures and a need for optimal productivity, it is essential for companies to guarantee the permanent operational readiness of automated storage and retrieval systems in the warehouse. Remote Analytics provides users with all unit data on an online service portal. www.kardexremstar.com
GreyOrange launched AI-powered Butler PickPal GreyOrange announced its beta launch of the new-gen Butler PickPal, an autonomous picking solution. Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Vision to unlock the next level of efficiency in the order picking process, it works seamlessly with the goods-to-person GreyOrange Butler™ robotics system which enables warehouses to manage high-speed operations by automating order picking and fulfilment. The Butler PickPal addresses the challenges arising from the global boom in e-commerce as orders need to be fulfilled faster and accurately with more cost-efficiency as competition intensifies. www.greyorange.com
New high voltage LED worklights from TVH TVH in the Americas (TVH), has expanded their LED worklight selection to include the SY5LCWLS-80 and SY6LCWLR-80. These worklights feature a high 10-80 voltage to better suit your industrial needs. These lights are great for a wide variety of applications such as construction machinery, forklifts, mining machinery, building projection lights, outdoor commercial lighting, farm equipment, emergency lighting, 4x4 off-road vehicles and other heavy equipment. The SY5LCWLS-80 is a square worklight measuring 3.93” long with 5 LEDs, 600 lumens, and 7.5 watts while the SY6LCWLR-80 is a round 4.21” worklight with 6 LEDs, 650 lumens, and 9.0 watts. www.tvh.com
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JLT Mobile Computers launches vehiclemount computers JLT Mobile Computers launches the JLT6012™ logistics computer, the first product of a new generation of rugged vehicle-mount computers with innovative platform design. The JLT6012 presents a major step change in rugged computing, as the new terminal not only delivers unparalleled productivity and better user acceptance today, but also constitutes a platform for building innovative mobile IT solutions, including hardware, software and services for the needs of tomorrow. Featuring the industry’s most compact design, modern Windows, Android or Linux operating systems, and the user-friendly JLT PowerTouch™ PCT technology, the JLT6012 computer takes user productivity to new levels. www.jltmobile.com
EVERLINE PA LED drivers bring auxiliary output power to 0-10V applications Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc recently introduced its PA Series of LED drivers. Designed for the smart fixture, PA drivers eliminate the need for a separate power supply for sensors by providing 12 Volts DC (12Vdc) or 24Vdc auxiliary output power. These drivers are compatible with any standard 0-10V analog dimming control signal. They can be programmed down to minimum dimming level of 5 percent using the popular EVERset tuning software. The software allows designers to customize PA driver parameters, such as minimum and maximum output currents, dimming curves, dimming control voltages and a dimto-off command. Specific configurations can then be saved for production use. www.unvlt.com
New Honeywell wearable device helps improve speed and accuracy Honeywell announced its new smart wearable, which helps supply chain workers complete their high-volume tasks more efficiently and ergonomically. The 8680i wearable Mini-Mobile is a compact, high-performance and hands-free cordless device that helps improve efficiency and productivity for scan-intensive tasks. By eliminating the need to pick up a handheld scanner, scan the item and then set the scanner down, the new wearable device helps improve workers’ scanning times by approximately five seconds per typical transaction. The lightweight, Wi-Fi-enabled device is worn on one hand and provides workers with a twobutton interface and a clear display of information such as battery status and scan results. www.honeywellaidc.com
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