Making Notes. Paper versus the iPad. As technology becomes smarter and the World Wide Web is easier to access, paper will cease to become the platform on which many great ideas and notes were made….
Aluminum diamond-deck high-grade truck dock boards A while ago, we had talked about dock boards – aluminum versus steel – their merits and demerits. Bluff Manufacturing introduces a new line of aluminum welded truck dock…
Winds of Change The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case…
June is The National Safety Month Safety First! How many times have we heard that expression – From our childhood days, all throughout adolescence and into adulthood? Safety has and always will be of utmost…
Memorial Day Weekend 2010 Bluff Manufacturing is closed for the Memorial Day weekend! Got any plans for the long weekend? If you don’t have any major travel plans, there are always plenty of…
Performance Pay – Blaze Your Own Path Every one of us has the desire and ability to be entrepreneurs; to be in control of our own lives. In its own way, the piece rate system of…
Optimism in the manufacturing sector Dare we hope for some good news finally? If numbers are any indication, then it seems that the sun is finally beginning to shine on the material handling and…
Creating Bridges in the Material Handling Industry Andrea Curreri Quite simply, a bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle in order to provide an object passage over that obstacle. This obstacle could be…
MHEDA 55th Annual Convention – The Rules Have Changed In attending MHEDA’s 55th Annual Convention (May 1st – 5th, 2010) at the Marriott Marco Island Resort and Spa on beautiful Marco Island, Florida, we learned that indeed the…
Strategic Dealers We talked about trust and communication among dealers and manufacturers in our last blog, and there still seemed much more to explore on this topic. This week’s blog will…
Building Trust and Communication in Dealer – Distribution Partner Relationships Channel relationships are born out of a natural desire to create and sell winning products and to garner greater market share from the competition. There are tremendous opportunities for…
Steel prices shoot up The manufacturing sector is about to be hit by a sudden hike in steel prices. It is speculated that the cost of steel will increase by about a third…