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Aug 2020
Rise Modular posted a video of their modular structures moving through their plant, stating “We love how easily our team can move Mods through the plant with our AeroGo, Inc. air casters!” View the video at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rise-modular_risemodular-modular-construction-activity-6694690408926208000-FuC3
Jul 2020
How do you choose the right load moving system from all the available options? Read the article in the summer newsletter: How to Choose the Right Load Moving System. Also – submit your company for the ‘Innovation Award’ before November 15, 2020.
Jun 2020
As a manufacturer that’s faced with increasing margin pressure, you’re always looking for opportunities to optimize resource costs. After all, wages and training costs aren’t decreasing any time soon. One way leading manufacturers are minimizing labor costs while improving productivity is with more effective material handling solutions including industrial transfer carts. Also known as Self-Propelled […]
May 2020
Material handling systems in industrial manufacturing inherently come with operational costs. But you can optimize these costs, if you know where to look. First, there’s the cost of over-handling materials. Each time you count, sort, stock, move or prepare materials for storage or shipment, you impact your margins. Second, there’s the cost of workflow bottlenecks. […]
Apr 2020
If you are a member of ASME, be sure to view the white paper, How Self-Propelled Modular Transporters Enable Lean Manufacturing, published at the members-only section of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) website.
Apr 2020
How can manufacturers operate more efficiently, more productively, and at reduced cost? That’s the key question behind lean manufacturing, a strategic approach to designing manufacturing systems and processes to create, as Industry Week writes, “a seamless flow of people, material and information. It’s all about effective use of time.” Through lean manufacturing techniques, manufacturers can […]
Mar 2020
Need to increase your production throughput? Borrow a lesson from Henry Ford. Henry Ford once hired an efficiency expert to examine the running of his company. The expert made a favorable report, but had reservations about one employee. “It’s that man down the corridor,” he said. “Every time I go by his office, he’s just […]
Feb 2020
Is your manufacturing facility running out of floor space? Do you lack the budget to expand? Then consider the many ways you can maximize the utilization of your floor space. First, get a handle on why you are running out of floor space. Some manufacturers face a space squeeze because of company growth. Their company […]
Jan 2020
If you want the ULTIMATE on-demand rigging capability, embed air bearings into your machinery. We even provide the models via an online toolkit available from AeroGo at www.aerogo.com/products/embedded-systems.
Dec 2019
Sometimes you just need to move tools, racks, and machines around to streamline work flow to be more convenient and accessible. At AeroGo, we use our own air casters to reconfigure our shop on the fly. One person can easily move material racks, tools, gantry cranes, etc. It could not be easier. See for yourself: