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By Colin Wilson
COO, NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc.
Executive Chairman – Material Handling Industry 2008-2009
Membership Meetings –
March and September 2008
Members of MHIA regularly convene
to advance the industry on many fronts.
Outcomes of the meetings include:
• Industry Standards
• Education
• Market and Statistical Information
• Assessment of Technology and Trends
• Industry Promotion
• Networking
• Partnering and Collaboration
We have worked hard to signifi cantly enhance the content of
these meetings and the changes have been well received. There is
rich content for everyone, whatever their industry or discipline. If
you have not attended these meetings for several years and seen
the changes made, you are strongly encouraged to do so in 2008.
For information on how you might become involved in MHIA
Membership, contact Ray Niemeyer at rniemeyer@mhia.org.
Additional Membership benefi ts can be seen at www.mhia.org/
about.
2008 International Material Handling Research Colloquium
To keep abreast of and advance leading edge technology, MHIA
sponsors a bi-annual International Material Handling Research
Colloquium. The 2008 edition will be held May 28 – June 2, 2008
in Dortmund, Germany. The dates and location were selected to
coincide with the important CeMAT 2008 Exhibition in Hannover,
Germany. Takeaways from these events allow us to continue to
improve solutions available to industries in USA.
Publications
In addition to an information packed web site, MHIA produces
reference and resource materials in many forms and formats –
many regular and complimentary as shown on the MHIA web site
at www.mhia.org. While there, you will also see links to subscribe
to our quarterly newsletter, On The Mhove, as well as its monthly
electronic cousin, e-Mhove.
On behalf of the offi cers, members and staff of MHIA, I wish
you all the best in 2008 and hope that we will have the opportunity
to be of service throughout the year. Remember, this is your
industry and your trade association.
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MH&L EDUCATION CORNER
“We are facing
a growing
manpower crisis
in material handling
and logistics.”
At the Material Handling and Logistics
Summit held in Whitefi sh,
Montana last summer, I asked all
participants whether they would like to see
their sons and daughters working in a distribution
center? I was answered with a stunning
silence. Not a single hand was raised.
This was a powerful moment, since we
had in the room a sample of America’s top
players in material handling and logistics,
the ones who are leading the conceptualization,
design, engineering, implementation
and operation of those distribution centers.
The question popped in my mind as an
extrapolation from one of the Summit’s
main consensus conclusions: we are facing
a growing manpower crisis in material
handling and logistics. The best example
anecdotally illustrating the situation was
provided by one of the Summit participants.
He informed us that he knows of a
distribution center in a metropolitan area
where the manpower speaks twenty two
different languages, with many people
barely speaking English.
How did we get to such a crisis situation?
Well, the answer is complex and multifaceted,
but let me try to give it a shot.
The fi rst hypothesis is that there are less
workers on the job market due to demographic
decline. This is a true fact that will be even
more true in the future. Yet in most regions
we do not have full employment and there are
plenty of people looking for better jobs.
The second hypothesis is that America’s
new generations prefer white collar jobs and
thus shy away from working in factories and
distribution centers. Again this is a true fact
for at least part of the population. Yet America
has been seeing its factories serially closing,
operations being relocated on China and
other emerging countries. Many of the factory
workers that were laid off loved their
job. Many of these could be great candidates
for material handling and logistics jobs.
The third hypothesis is that material
handling and logistics jobs are perceived
as low pay, low skill, dull work, labor
market entry jobs, to be avoided as much
as possible. By having visited many sites
and having talked to many workers I know
this perception to be truly felt by a vast
By Benoit Montreuil
President 2008-2009, College Industry Council on Material Handling Education
　
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