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Types of Data Centers and Backup Power Explained
In today’s digital-first world, data centers are the backbone of many industries—from finance and healthcare to entertainment and e-commerce. As the...
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7 Steps to Ensure You Never Lose Critical Power
If it feels like you hear about a new natural disaster every time you open your phone or turn on the news, there’s a...
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What is Battery Sulfation: A Comprehensive Overview
Nothing disrupts productivity like a dead battery. Whether it's your TV remote failing at a critical moment or your...
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High-Velocity Distribution: Why Your Maintenance Strategy Must Evolve
Step inside a high-velocity distribution facility and the operational complexity becomes instantly clear: forklifts...
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Concentric’s PowerHIVE™ Named Finalist and Winner for the 2025 MHI Innovation Award
Innovation is the driving force behind progress in the material handling industry, and each year, the MHI Innovation...
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Signs of Faulty Forklift Battery Terminals
Proper care and routine maintenance are essential to getting the best performance from your forklift batteries....
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Understanding Forklifts: Types, Uses, and Benefits
Common Names for Forklifts Forklifts are often referred to by other names, including: Fork-lift Forklift Loader Barge...
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5 Questions to Ask Before Investing in AMRs
Manufacturers and warehouses are increasingly investing in automation technology to improve efficiency, reduce...
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Empower Your Material Handling Fleet with Forklift Battery Maintenance
Breakdowns and unexpected downtime affecting forklift batteries and charging equipment can have devastating effects on...
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Forklift Battery Troubleshooting: Maximize Your Power Use
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Our Next Chapter: Solving the Power Problem for Facility Leaders
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7 Key Forklift Battery Maintenance Tips You Can't Afford to Ignore
When it comes to operating a forklift, ensuring the proper maintenance of its battery is essential for smooth...
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Pros & Cons of Lithium-ion Batteries
Originally published in Forklift Action News on October 6, 2022. Many organizations treat lithium-ion as a "set it and...
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A New Era of Power Management
Originally published in Supply & Demand Chain Executive on May 27, 2022. Written by TJ Shelters, VP of Sales.
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Concentric, LLC, an OnPoint Group Company, Acquires Mesa Technical Associates
DALLAS, Texas – May 11, 2022 —
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Time for lithium ion forklift battery use?: What you need to know.
There is more than one way to power an electric forklift. One of the most important things to keep in mind when...
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The Importance of Having the Right Battery Monitoring System
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Backup power services: What you need to know
Does your organization have truly essential equipment, assets that can't stop operating without spiraling costs and...
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How to choose the right forklift tires and wheels for your material handling needs
When you're investing in maintenance for your forklift vehicle fleet, you can't afford to overlook the tires. These...
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Concentric Named on Food Logistics’ 2022 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain Award
Concentric Named on Food Logistics’ 2022 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain Award
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3 Ways to Make Smarter Sustainability Decisions
Concentric Blog Repurposing of Food Logistics Byline 1.24.22 The business landscapes of today are shifting to become...
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Why Most Businesses are Thinking Wrong About Sustainability
Originally published in Food Logistics Magazine on 1/7/22. Why Most Businesses are Thinking Wrong About Sustainability...
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Concentric, LLC, an OnPoint Group Company, Acquires Leading Virginia Battery Provider, Weldex Sales
DALLAS, Texas – December 14, 2021 — Concentric, the national leader in DC power management and on-site maintenance for...
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5 Material Handling Predictions for 2022
The past year has thrown material handling an incredible number of curveballs: labor issues, supply chain shortages,...
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7 Important Forklift Safety Considerations
Forklift safety is a vital consideration for any material handling organization that uses these vehicles. According to...
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Finding a Critical Power Provider that Fits
Maintaining critical power takes a great deal of time, attention, and engineering expertise. When one misstep can cost...
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Concentric, LLC, an OnPoint Group Company, Acquires All Battery Sales and Service
Editors note: This article originally appeared on DC Velocity. Acquisition extends Concentric’s footprint with coast to...
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Essentials for Your Forklift Charging Station
Your forklift fleet is the engine that makes your material handling operations go. But what, in turn, is powering those...
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8 Questions to Help Your Material Handling Survive an Unpredictable Holiday Season
Every peak holiday season that passes has its own set of challenges; all varying in degrees year-to-year.
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ConcentricCare: A Path to Zero Material Handling Downtime
Downtime is a four-letter word in material handling. Yet without a consistent and comprehensive approach to forklift...
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The Concentric Story: How A Second Mortgage Transformed the Forklift Power Industry
It might seem extreme to claim that, if it wasn’t for a second mortgage, the forklift power industry would operate the...
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Optimize Utility, Industrial, and Data Center Operations With The Right Industrial Battery Charger
When the power goes out at your utility or industrial facility, what's your backup plan? How recently have you thought...
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Extend Forklift Battery Life With an Effective Battery Watering System
How optimized is your business's use of forklifts in its material handling operations? Are you using every available...
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Find the Ideal Forklift Battery Charger Solution for Your Facility
In terms of pace and efficiency, your logistics and material handling operations depend on the performance of your...
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Data Center Power: A User’s Guide to Soft and Hard Costs
Data centers can’t afford to go dark. That’s why reliable critical power systems are central to their operation....
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Concentric Closes Acquisition of STANGCO Industrial Equipment Inc.
PERRYSBURG, Ohio- August 11, 2021 -- Concentric, an OnPoint Group Company, and national leader in DC power management...
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4 Critical Factors for Sustainable Operations
Sustainability is often perceived as having little business impact. However, many companies have seen outsized returns...
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A User’s Guide to Forklift Battery Types
Searching for a forklift power solution? As technology advances and options proliferate, you may feel overwhelmed by...
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Implementing an Effective Forklift Battery Watering System
To keep your manufacturing and distribution supply chain as productive and efficient as possible, you should make sure...
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Video: How to Prepare for Supply Chain Volatility in 2021 and Beyond
We thought we were leaving volatility behind in 2020, but in fact, many are finding it harder to manage in 2021--and...
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3 Ways Critical Power Data Can Keep Your Data Center Online
If you oversee critical power for a data center or other critical operation, it’s likely that you just don’t have the...
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How to Ensure your Data Center is an Investment, Not a Cost Center
Demand for data centers is skyrocketing. In fact, both the demand for data centers and their capacity are expanding at...
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5 Ways to Make Your Power System Resilient in the Face of Disasters
Recent events, from the wildfires that decimated the west coast to the blackouts caused by the blizzards in Texas, have...
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The Big Chill: 5 Tips to Improve Performance in Cold Storage Facilities
Cold storage facilities are critical to any number of supply chains. At the same time, they can be downright brutal on...
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IOT and Forklift Telematics: 3 Situations Where Their Use Helps You Gain More Control
Are you a facility or maintenance manager whose list of tasks grows by the day? Are you being asked to have a higher...
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How to Think About Forklift Telematics and the Internet of Things
What is IOT and IIOT and Why Does It Matter to Your Business? What do we mean when we refer to IOT (Internet of...
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A User’s Guide: Edge Computing and Critical Power
If you run a data center, you live and die by whether you’re meeting service level objectives (SLOs). An outage may not...
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Thinking about Predictive Maintenance? The 4 Factors You Need to Consider Now
If you’ve optimized your preventative maintenance program (see our recent blog, The 3 Steps to Optimize Preventative...
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Don’t Even Think About Predictive Maintenance Until You’ve Optimized Preventative Maintenance
If you’re overseeing material handling, a big part of the job now is “do more with less,” year after year after year....
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Why the Traditional CPG Playbook Isn’t Winning Anymore and What to Do About It
The tried-and-true playbook of CPG powerhouses like P&G, Anheuser Busch, and General Mills worked for decades, but many...
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Concentric Acquires Southern States Enterprises, Inc.
Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Business Wire Concentric, LLC, the nation’s largest forklift power and...
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5 Ways to Lower Your Forklift Tire Cost by 80%
Forklift tires are the #1 maintenance cost for forklifts, with some experts estimating that forklift tires account for...
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AGVs: What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages?
What Are AGVs? Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are otherwise known as battery-powered driverless vehicles. Some people...
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How an Effective Critical Power System Can Help You Keep Your Job
There’s a reason they don’t call critical power “optional power.” It’s the last line of defense, keeping essential...
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5 Ways Food Processing Wreaks Havoc on Material Handling Processes & Equipment
There are few industries as brutal on their equipment as the food industry. That extreme wear and tear comes in part...
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Top Takeaways from SCMR's Next Gen Supply Chain Conference
What supply chain strategy or technology is going to put your organization over the edge? The potential answers to that...
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7 Ways to Prevent Outages Based on Findings from the Uptime Institute Survey
While outage information is always difficult to obtain because companies keep failures close to the vest, the recently...
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How to Build A Supply Chain Talent Management Strategy
When Gartner asked supply chain execs about the external forces with the greatest impact on supply chain resources, a...
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7 Steps to Ensure You Never Lose Critical Power
If it feels like you hear about a new natural disaster every time you open your phone or turn on the news, there’s a...
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4 Reasons to Convert from Propane to Electric Forklifts
There was a major wave of electric conversion for forklifts beginning in the 2000s. A second phase of conversion is...
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5 Critical Power Lessons Learned from the Pandemic
While 2020 has been a year of unprecedented challenges, it’s also led to some important learnings. Across industries,...
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7 Tips for Choosing a Critical Power Partner
When it comes to critical power, let’s start with a basic question: why outsource? The short answer is that outsourcing...
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4 Ways to Keep Your Brand Competitive in the "Great Acceleration to Online"
What happens when your customers no longer go to the store to buy your products? Worse, they may have a surrogate...
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Introducing the Concentric Critical Power Division
Introducing Critical Power Concentric is proud to announce the launch of our new Concentric Critical Power Division,...
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What Tesla's Battery Day Says About the Future of Material Handling
In honor of Battery Day, we wanted to spend a minute talking a little bit about where batteries have come from and...
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Why Companies With a Focus on a Safe and Sustainable Supply Chain Weathered the Pandemic Better
While many companies have struggled during the pandemic, a few have thrived. While some of these companies are the ones...
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Why People Want to Leave Lead Acid (and How to Easily Test New Tech)
There has been a lot of talk lately about lead acid being 99% recyclable. It is a true claim. But at the same time,...
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Why There's Only One Answer to Taking the Risk Out of New Technology
We recently held a webinar on taking the risk out of new technology. (PS - We will do it again soon!) The focus of the...
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Why Your Company Needs a PAL Supply Chain Strategy
Businesses have been moving towards a PAL (“Personal, Automate, Local”) supply chain delivery strategy for some time....
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Why is Forklift Power So Hard?
Ever since electrified forklifts came into being, almost 100% of them have used flooded lead acid batteries. In the...
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Supply Chain Lessons From H-E-B
If you’ve stared down an empty aisle of paper towels and disinfectants, you’re aware that the coronavirus pandemic has...
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Is your forklift overheating? This might be why.
To keep your forklifts in top condition, your employees inspect the equipment before each shift. But once the work day...
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5 Ways to Diversify Your Market During "The Great Reluctance"
I’m proud to introduce the inaugural Supply Chain Corner column, which harkens back to Concentric’s mantra, Finding a...
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How Six Sigma Helped One Facility Reduce Repair Cycle Time by 14%
Almost everyone who manages a facility has struggled with forklift power downtime and inefficiencies—yet pinpointing...
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5 Supply Chain Tips Every CEO Needs to Know (Especially Now)
If you’re running a business—particularly now—you’re probably looking for every advantage. Whether your business is big...
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Insider's Series: An Interview with a Manufacturing and Distribution "Fixer" - Part 2
Jerry Murphy works at Sikich as the partner in charge of the manufacturing distribution services for the CPA service...
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Insider's Series: An Interview with a Manufacturing and Distribution "Fixer"
Jerry Murphy is the kind of resource we all wish we had on speed dial. He works at Sikich as the partner in charge of...
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3 Lessons in Innovation from the Auto Industry's Transformation
Since the auto industry has close ties to the industrial forklift and material handling space, we continually watch...
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Add Flexibility to your Facility Using Automated Mobile Robots
Amazon is setting the pace for warehouse and facility distribution by using modern technology like automated mobile...
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How Reactive Power (and Unneeded Downtime) Hurts Your Facility
Here’s a scenario that may seem familiar: You are a growing facility with reasonably new high-frequency chargers that...
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4 Reasons Lead-Acid Batteries are Safer and Greener than Propane Forklifts
If your company has resolved to do better in terms of safety and environmental issues in 2020, you may be surprised...
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7 Tips to Improve Safety and Environmental Practices at Your Plant
Remember pop quizzes? I’m not your fifth-grade teacher, but I’ve got a one-question version for you. What can be the...
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3 Ways to Optimize the Performance of Supply Chain Management
Amazon is setting an almost unmatchable pace for fulfillment and delivery and everyone else—with far fewer...
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Why Building Your Facility’s Velocity is Critical…and Speed, not so much
If you’re in charge of plant operations, chances are you’re being pressured to cut costs at the same time you’re...
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5 Ways National Service Can Cut Costs and Improve Productivity
Being in charge of last-mile delivery can feel a little like being Sisyphus. (You’ve probably heard the story, even it...
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Dude, Where's My Forklift? 5 Power system factors you need to get under control
Has a forklift driver ever lost track of a truck somewhere in your facility, throwing off your productivity? If so,...
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The right forklift Power technician reduces downtime while extending battery life 30%
Good power technicians possess the complex scientific and electrical knowledge needed for optimal power management....
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4 Steps for an Effective Power Management Assessment
If you’ve been charged with cutting costs and increasing productivity for material handling, you may be wondering how...
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6 Factors for a Successful Battery Single-Point Watering System
Which seven words, when put in practice, can dramatically increase the uptime of your manufacturing and distribution...
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How to Turn Your Forklifts into ATM Machines
How can you save millions a year and increase your production uptime? Having a handle on the total cost of ownership...
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5 Ways to Destroy Your Forklift Battery
Most of us are careful about the way we treat our precious cell phones, taking care to ensure that the batteries last...
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Pro and Cons of the 4 Ways to Handle Your Forklift Power System
Imagine you’re on an NYC train headed to work and then the train just stops! There you are with hundreds of people...
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How Forklift Power Can Help You Knock Out Your Lean Six Sigma Goals
If you’re like most Lean Six Sigma belts, you’re always looking for your next project. And like most Lean Six Sigma...
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How to keep your cold storage forklift going strong
Temperature matters when you're managing a cold storage facility. Various products require different temperatures, and...
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Is Your Supply Chain Recession-Proof?
Supply Chain Management Review released an excellent case study cross section done on large, public manufacturers with...
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4 Creative Ways to Increase Supply Chain Uptime and Reduce Costs
Many companies are so caught up in maintaining supply chain uptime that they end up unwittingly sabotaging their...
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5 Simple Areas Where Your Forklifts Are Bleeding Costs & Chaos
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. When it comes to forklifts and forklift batteries, most companies operate by this...
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Considerations to keep in mind when refreshing your fleet
Lift trucks are critical assets to most supply chain and manufacturing operations. Being just one lift truck short can...
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How often are you refreshing your fleet?
The material handling equipment in your fleet should always be reliable. But keeping up a dependable fleet sometimes...
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How your concrete floor affects your forklift
Your warehouse floor is literally the base of your operation. Though it's easy to overlook the floor, this feature is...
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How to build TCO forecast for your fleet
Before you make a purchasing decision for your company, you likely analyze its price and overall benefits to your...
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How to execute proactive maintenance well during peak season
When consumers shop more, it inevitably leads to more work in warehouse and distribution centers across the country....
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Ventilation is key for safe forklift operation
Forklifts come in many shapes, sizes and models. But if there's one thing every forklift has in common, it's a need for...
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Leverage flex rentals to meet peak shipping season demands
While the holidays may mean family gatherings and workplace parties for most people, for the average facility manager,...
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Today's challenges when hiring seasonal employees and forklift operators
The end of the year is a busy time for many retailers, when consumers happily spend money on their family and friends....
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Essentials for your forklift battery charging and changing stations
Electric forklifts can reduce the presence of carbon monoxide and lower noise levels in work areas, but one of the...
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3 types of data that facilities can use to advance uptime and ROI
A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is a smart way to collect data from around your facility. The data...
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Today's challenges in hiring technicians
Shortages of skilled technicians have impacted industries across the country. Growing companies require knowledgeable...
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Should I replace my forklift forks?
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration requires all forklift drivers to
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Why data can lead to better forklift usage
Your forklift fleet is like the pulse of your business. If your forklifts aren't moving product and materials to where...
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Preparing your fleet for various environments
Whether your forklifts are used strictly indoors or driven over bumpy pavement, it's important to make sure your fleet...
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Fire protection features every warehouse should have
Every company should consider fire protection one of its top priorities. Fires occur in warehouses, industrial...
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Key considerations for safe battery and charger handling
Electric forklifts can improve a warehouse's operations by reducing carbon emissions and lowering noise in the...
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Warehouse design elements that benefit forklift safety
Understanding the safe use of a forklift is a non-negotiable prerequisite for lift truck operation. There are thousands...
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4 benefits of on-site technicians [Infographic]
When equipment breaks down in your facility, it needs to be addressed promptly. Lacking just one asset can hold up...
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What Your Facility Can Really Do With a CMMS [Infographic]
A computerized maintenance management system, often simply called a CMMS, can do a lot for a business that knows how to...
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5 most important safety devices on a forklift
Enhancing workplace safety is crucial, particularly when it comes to material handling operations involving forklifts....
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How to succeed during a skills shortage in materials handling
A shortage of skilled workers has weighed on employers in the manufacturing and materials handling industries for many...
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Forklift additions that can make your facility safer
Material handling is a critical part of the American economy, but it can also be a dangerous line of work. In 2016,...
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Why warehouse updates are necessary for today's growing industries
E-commerce is a trend that won't be slowing down or going away. The convenience of online shopping is second to none,...
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End-of-summer warehouse maintenance tips
As summer winds to a close, facility managers need to be aware of how the changing seasons can impact their buildings....
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How technology can improve your warehouse
Technology has shaped our lives, personally and professionally. By bringing connected equipment into an industrial...
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How to choose the right tires for your forklift
When forklift tires begin to wear down, they should be replaced as soon as possible to reduce the risk of accidents and...
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Trends in forklift design and development
The forklift has evolved immensely since it was patented in 1867. According to The Palletizer, a naval supply magazine...
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Support pedestrian safety in your facility with these features
Before facility employees can climb into the driver's seat of a forklift, they must go through a forklift training...
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Supercharge the battery management strategies for your facility
Forklift batteries are the power sources that propel productivity at your facility. Without a full fleet of functional...
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Must-know powered industrial truck safety points
Forklifts are an integral part of warehouses, distribution centers and many other facilities, but staying safe while...
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Warehousing costs are on the rise
Technology has changed the way consumers shop, which means the ways retailers sell products is also changing. As more...
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As warehouse demand rises, companies need to invest in their forklifts
In tandem with a strengthening economy and a shift in consumer spending trends, demand for warehouse and distribution...
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3 potential drawbacks to your OEM maintenance program
When you purchased your equipment from the manufacturer, you likely learned about their specialized maintenance program...
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Loading dock safety tips to consider for your facility
While the loading dock is perhaps the most critical point of any facility, it's also the most dangerous one. Between...
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Forklift safety mistakes and how to avoid them
Forklift operators understand the importance of safety when using a lift truck. They also know how to inspect their...
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2 signs your forklift needs maintenance
Every forklift driver's shift begins the same way: with a thorough inspection of the vehicle. Before turning on the...
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Preparing for a potential natural disaster in 2018
When a natural disaster hits, it's best to be prepared. A force of nature isn't something one can easily contend with...
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3 ways to modernize your loading dock
The supply chain is always evolving. Advancements in technology have changed the way items are bought, sold, stored and...
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Do you know these 4 forklift safety rules?
Across the U.S. nearly 1 million forklifts are used to transport materials every day, load trucks and keep the supply...
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Forklifts: Propane vs. Electric
For your motive power needs, it's easy to get caught up in your battery and charger options. However, you have choices...
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The Six Most Important Attributes About Forklifts
Buying a new forklift is much like buying a new car; a ton of research goes into the purchase, and many of the...
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Tips for Making a Forklift Financing Decision
When buying new forklifts for your fleet, usage and performance will always point you in the right direction, and grant...
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The Three Most Important Performance Features of a Forklift
When the time comes to upgrade your forklift fleet, there are many factors that go into making the decision on what...
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The Five Most Important Aspects to Consider When Choosing the Right Forklift Dealer
When the time comes to purchase new forklifts, selecting the right dealer partner is as important as selecting the...
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When Is It Time to Consider Buying a New Forklift?
With any equipment, machinery, or vehicles, there will always come a time when it needs to be replaced. For many motive...
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Top 4 (Power) Takeaways from MODEX
MODEX was a rousing success last week. Attendees buzzed about the growth of the crowd from previous events, the...
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Choosing Your Next Motive Power Partner
When the time comes to choose your next power partner, there are a variety of factors to consider. Obviously, each...
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5 Ways to Improve Your Industrial Battery Replacement Cycle
In the world of motive power, downtime is a dirty word. At best it means you're not maximizing your fleet's potential,...
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3 Ways to Reduce Your Long-term Motive Power Costs
Many business owners and operations managers struggle to reduce motive power costs. Often, they undergo paralysis by...
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Warning Signs of a Bad Industrial Site Assessment
For many companies, calling in a motive power management company to perform an industrial site assessment is a big...
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Six Ways to Prepare for Power Failure
The critical nature of water gave birth to the Old West saying of “You don’t miss your water ‘til the well runs dry.”...
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Determine the Best Forklift Battery and Charger Sizes For Your Fleet
Choosing the right battery size—and the charger to complement it—can certainly be confusing. The reason there's not a...
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The Industry's Best Motive Power Systems
There are a variety of ways to design a battery system. The best one is always going to offer a measurement component,...
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How to Increase Forklift Battery Life
For businesses reliant on material handling vehicles, forklifts represent a significant investment. However, the...
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5 Signs It's Time to Replace Your Industrial Battery System
Unfortunately, batteries are not immortal. They have a finite life, and only through proper maintenance can you get the...
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3 Essential Steps for Forklift Fleet Expansion
Expanding your motive power fleet is a big undertaking. Often, customers have made the decision to expand before...
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Three Key Requirements for Making a Forklift Buying Decision
A forklift buying decision is a big one for any operation. While a variety of factors play into what makes for the...
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Three Things You Didn’t Know About Battery Technology
Batteries, as we always say, are the little engines behind any business dependent on motive power. No matter how...
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Concentric's CIO to Speak at the North Carolina Emerging Tech Trends Panel
The phenomenon of plugging batteries and other “things” into the internet continues to gain steam. The cool kids have...
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Standard Battery Charging vs. Opportunity Battery Charging
As with most technologies, the only constant is change. As soon as your business falls into a rhythm, new innovations...
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Understanding the Dangers of Arc Flash
There are a variety of factors to consider when it comes to battery maintenance, but understanding arc flash is an...
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Four Tips for Ensuring Reserve Power Backup Capacity
Typically, the only way you know that it's time to take action on your reserve power resources is when you experience...
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Does Your Motive Power Provider Offer Program Options?
Everyone, no matter their line of business, loves to have options when making a big decision. It's no different when it...
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How to Find the Best Reserve Power Provider
When the time comes for choosing a new reserve power provider, it's obviously an important decision. If you're looking...
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What Should Your Reserve Power Provider Offer?
Whether you're hunting for a new reserve power provider or you want to ensure that you're maximizing the relationship...
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6 Critical Questions to Ask When Looking for a Motive Power Provider
Finding a motive power provider can be a daunting task. It may be time to consider a change if agreements are about to...
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