Case Studies

How to Unlock the Financial Potential of Batteries in Warehouse Operations.

Given today’s fiscal uncertain, most company comptrollers find themselves scrutinizing every aspect of operations for potential savings. Until now, though, only the most creative CFO would think to look for hundred-dollar bills inside a lift-truck battery. But then, as heavy as a bank vault and costing near as much, these batteries began to make sense as untapped store of hidden cash…..

EBatt News and Case Study (PDF - 213KB)

Analyze this! Motive-Power Batteries in Warehouses.

If batteries could talk, what stories they could tell. While talking batteries are not currently available, powerful battery-analysis systems have emerged that reveal important usage data that isproving to be more valuable than the anecdotal and often incomplete information received from the operators of forklifts, tuggers and pallet jacks....

EBatt Systems Monitoring Batteries (PDF - 315KB)

Re-charging DC Savings

Materials Transportation Company (MTC), the Temple Texas-based company that designs, engineers and manufactures battery handling equipment, has created Intell-A-Changer, a microprocessor-controlled system that automatically charges, changes and helps maintain industrial batteries. According to Jim Lane, vice president of Battery Systems Sales, the company saw a need to help customers reduce the costs associated with manpower, batteries, real estate and maintenanceissues surrounding the inventory of storage batteries required to power forklifts and AGVs (automatic guided vehicles)....

MTC - Intell A Changer (PDF - 235KB)

Report Card Helps Plant Managers Avoid Costly Human Error in Forklift Battery Maintenance

The facts are undeniable. Facilities that rely on fleets of lift trucks will save thousands of dollars each month and significantly clean up the work environment – if a smart battery management system is implemented. Reducing the number of batteries needed from 600 to 500, for example can save $20,000 per month while decreasing the amounts of acid and lead (a battery’s makeup) in the warehouse. According to OSHA, “implementing a proper battery maintenance program can increase the life of batteries and help protect employees. Battery failure could lead to mechanical breakdowns and possible accidents involving forklift operators and/or other personnel.”....

MTC - Report Card New (PDF - 167KB)