Fuel Efficiency in the Trucking Industry
Comments Off on Fuel Efficiency in the Trucking IndustryAt Ohio Valley Manufacturing we’ve been paying close attention to the trucking industry and there are several new announcements, including the president calling for fuel efficiency improvements. Obama has ordered the EPA to draft new regulations by March 2015 and implemented a year later. The goal of the new fuel standards is to limit greenhouse […]
Tags: fuel efficiency, lightweighting, SuperTruck, sustainability, trucking industry
Finding the Right Fuel to Power American Industry
Comments Off on Finding the Right Fuel to Power American IndustryAt Ohio Valley, like many businesses, we like to keep tabs on the issues that affect our industry interests. One issue in particular affects an interesting cross-section of industries that we’re involved in, and so we’d like to address it here: the ethanol debate. A concern for both the farming and transportation industries, the ethanol […]
Customer Service – a Backbone of Business
Comments Off on Customer Service – a Backbone of BusinessIn any business, one of the keys to success is outstanding customer service. You can make a great product, or have all the right equipment, but if your customers don’t like dealing with you, they will probably find another way to get what they want. Every year, we send out a survey to each of […]
Tags: customer relationships, customer service, customer survey, timliness
Ohio Valley and the Agricultural Industry
Comments Off on Ohio Valley and the Agricultural IndustryLast time we talked a bit about the “lightweighting” trend, what it is, and how it applies to one of the primary industries we’re involved in, namely the trucking industry. This time, we’d like to examine more specifically how the trend and our expertise therein dovetails with other more heavy duty applications of heavy gauge […]
Tags: agricultural industry, agriculture, AHSS, fuel efficiency, heavy duty, heavy gauge blanking, heavy-gauge stamping, high strength steel, lightweighting, trucking
Lightweighting in Vehicle Manufacturing
Comments Off on Lightweighting in Vehicle ManufacturingOne of the biggest buzzwords currently in the motor vehicle manufacturing industry is “lightweighting”. This refers to the attempt by auto and truck design and manufacturing companies to come up with the lightest weight vehicles possible, in order to be as fuel efficient as possible. There are many schools of thought as to the best […]
Tags: aluminum, carbon fiber, heavy duty, heavy-gauge stamping, high grade steel, lightweighting, thin gauge steel, tolerances
How PRAXIS Improves Our Processes
Comments Off on How PRAXIS Improves Our ProcessesAt Ohio Valley manufacturing, we are constantly on the lookout for new ways to innovate, optimize, and streamline our business and our customer service. Back in 2011, we implemented one of our greatest strategies to accomplishing these goals, and we’d like to take some time to explain just how valuable it is for our business […]
Tags: AQP, ASN, customer service, EDI, enterprise resource planning, ERP, inventory, maintenance, material requirements planning, MRP, ohio, Praxis, production, receiving, scheduling, shipping, tracking
Rising to the Challenge: Ohio’s Economic Recovery
Comments Off on Rising to the Challenge: Ohio’s Economic RecoveryAs the U.S. economy slowly recovers from the Great Recession, the workforce has its eye continually on the unemployment rate, job opportunities, and trends in hiring and job opening in order to reestablish the stability lost in the past decade. Job seekers and students of the economy alike might be impressed with the economic performance […]
The Structure of Safety in American Manufacturing
Comments Off on The Structure of Safety in American ManufacturingAmerican manufacturing has been a regular part of the news cycle lately for many reasons: the several proposed “manufacturing renaissances” and other similar terms that are thrown about in conjunction with the automation and high tech manufacturing, the observed re-shoring trend, immigration considerations, trade considerations, and many other reasons. Since June was National Safety Month, […]
Heavy Gauges and Higher Goals
Comments Off on Heavy Gauges and Higher GoalsIn our last blog, we talked a lot about innovation and progress – well, we’re here again to tell you about a few concrete examples of our commitment to improving our systems and capabilities. Meet the two newest improvements to our medley of manufacturing equipment: a heavy duty Hammerle roller leveler, and a new feed […]
Tags: Hammerle, heavy guage, improvements, manufacturing, new machines, ohio
Trucking Trends, and a Tradition of Innovation
Comments Off on Trucking Trends, and a Tradition of InnovationIf you work in the trucking industry, you know about the Mid-America Trucking Show that just happened last month, and you would also know that one of the most talked about subjects at the show was fuel efficiency. Selective catalytic reduction(SCR) has now been adopted by all the major trucking companies, and as the filling […]