Sep 2019

Around the world, there could be as many as 20 million missing manufacturing jobs by 2030, according to a new report from Oxford Economics. The culprit in this job loss? Robots, of course — or, to be more precise, automation in all of its guises.

Thousands of electrical contractors are already benefiting from Building Information Modeling — BIM — systems. While adoption has been slower among electricians than other areas of the building trades, perhaps due to limited resources for electrical systems in early versions of the software, BIM use has been spreading for a decade now.

When a forklift battery compartment isn’t set up for side-extraction, there’s only one way to change the battery: Hoist it into the air. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to go about lifting forklift batteries.