Leading the Way with Supply Chain and Logistics Solutions

Glacier is proud to announce its participation in ProMat 2017 at McCormick Place in Chicago. ProMat 2017 is the premier showcase of material handling, supply chain and logistics solutions in North America. Glacier is a leader in rugged computing soluti …

You Might Not Know This But Goldilocks Grew Up to be a Warehouse Manager

You might not know this but Goldilocks grew up to be a warehouse manager…And yes, she tried to save money by using so-called rugged or semi-rugged tablets when the bean-counters couldn’t bear the price of a truly rugged device. But that ended up cost …

The KODIAK Forklift Computer Just Got Better

The only rugged industrial computer on the market that will run Windows 7.x, 8.x, 10.x, WES7, Linux, Android, or Windows CE out of the box just got better. The 10.4″ LED Display has been joined by a 12.1″ version. The 12.1″ LED 500 NIT display has 1000 …

Helping City Furniture Maintain Superior Efficiency

Modern Materials Handling Magazine published a piece about the durability of rugged computer terminals used by City Furniture, in Florida. Ricky Maharaj had this to say about the Everest E2000 CE systems they were using. “In a fast-paced, rugged enviro …

Lift Truck Tips: Mobile computers react to mounting demands

Excerpted from a recent article in Material Handling Magazine. When the concept of a forklift-mounted computer emerged, it was accompanied by a keyboard, separate battery and a better power conversion device specific to electric or propane, each of whi …

The Intelligent Forklift

A Brief about the Interaction of Two Dissimilar Technologies that Converge at the Forklift As forklifts begin to emerge from being the last frontier of technology change in the warehouse, an evolution begins to take place at the most unexpected but mos …

Intelligent forklifts reshape the warehouse

Modern smart forklifts include diagnostics that allow the equipment to signal when it needs to be serviced, control speed, prevent slipping by monitoring wheel spin and traction on slick floors, avoid collisions – and much more. Smart forklifts promote …

Glacier S9000 Material Handling Product of the Day

If you missed it, Material Handling Product News chose the Glacier S9000 as their product of the day. Equipped with an Intel Atom D2550 64-bit 1.86 GHz processor and up to 4GB of memory, the Everest S9000 stainless steel fixed computer terminal by Glac …

Is Something Lacking in Forklift Safety Training?

There’s an excellent article at Forklift Action.com on forklift safety. Here’s a snippet. “There are an estimated 855,900 active forklifts and 1.5 million forklift operators in the USA; multiply this across the globe and you begin to see the difficulty …