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SSI Schaefer: waking giant
We meet SSI Schaefer’s UK general manager, Dutchman Jaap Vos, who has ambition to use the recession as a means to grow his company’s market share.
Well known as a supplier of racking and shelving in the UK, Andover-based SSI Schaefer has started recently to make a serious name for itself in the world of automated warehousing. As we brave out the recession, SSI Schaefer is pushing ahead with ambitious plans to up its influence in areas outside of its traditional UK comfort zone.
Picking ergonomics
In this latest article by members of the Automated Material Handling Systems Association (AMHSA), Roger Peart, major accounts manager for Vanderlande Industries UK Ltd, argues that the way forward for the retail sector is to focus on ergonomic automation.
Napoleon who dubbed the British ‘a nation of shopkeepers’, and the retail sector is still arguably the powerhouse of the UK economy – worth some £270 billion, contributing 8% of our national GDP and employing over 3 million people (11% of the nation’s workforce).
Cost cutters
In this month’s column from the Automated Material Handling Systems Association (AMHSA), Spencer Roberts, managing director of AMH Services, explains how to minimise your handling equipment servicing costs.
We usually associate the term ‘lean’ with either a faraway wish following a particularly excessive holiday, or a best practice approach to production. However, in these extreme financial conditions, I challenge you to extend the definition to include the service of your mechanical handling equipment.
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