You may have sat next to one of them on a transatlantic flight, or walked behind one of them on the way to baggage claim, or stood in line with one of them at Customs. You didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, but these people were members of an exclusive and...
When you’re shipping thousands of pairs of military boots each month, as combat footwear supplier Wellco does, shipping errors can get expensive; to quote a famous senator, “Pretty soon you’re talking about real money!” So when Wellco made the commitment to RFID, they...
Remember the old days, when you’d send in your Lucky Charms box tops for a magic ring, and the order form said you’d get your ring in six to eight weeks? In Kid Time, six to eight weeks was forever. We wanted that magic ring right away! Maybe it was the memory of that...
When police investigators examine a crime, they collect bits and pieces of evidence by the dozen, everything from DNA evidence to the proverbial “smoking gun.” Every item has to be catalogued and stored for the use of detectives and courts, and without a...
Throughout military history, insignia has been used to identify the wearer’s status and honors. The U.S. Department of Defense’s Institute of Heraldry, housed at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, is charged with keeping track of some 15,000 items of insignia - medals, badges,...
Sharon, Massachusetts, is crammed full of history and historical artifacts. And like much of the area around Boston, it’s also densely built up. When the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations decided to consolidate their scattered collections into a single facility...
When we think of high-density storage, a limestone cave in Kansas is probably not the first thing that springs to mind. Yet for more than 60 years the U.S. Army’s go-to storage facility was the 127-acre Atchison Cave, housing everything from emergency food supplies to...
Retailers need to keep plenty of merchandise in their storerooms to replenish the racks. A customer who wants to buy an item that just sold out isn’t only a lost sale today, but perhaps many lost sales forever. However, real estate costs discourage retailers from...
Police evidence rooms are notoriously overcrowded, and finding additional storage space is always a challenge. Adding storage racks right up to the ceiling can be a great space solution where the building codes permit, but it creates another problem – how to get to...
We humans tend to ignore what’s overhead. Our spatial awareness is determined by our eyes and our hands – whatever we can see and reach – and we don’t think much about the air space above us. That is, until we need more space for storage, as this ice cream...
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