For every challenge, a reliable solution. What challenges does your business face? Are you facing rising operation costs?  Are you in need for more skilled workers? Are you not reaching the efficiency levels needed? At Toyota Industries Group, we understand that every business faces a unique set of challenges. Our job is to ensure you are equipped with a team of experts to help face those challenges with solutions.

Toyota Industries Group brings together the collective strength of industry leaders in their specific solution spaces. Four companies with one strategic vision – Toyota Material Handling, Vanderlande, Bastian Solutions and Raymond – means our customers have every resource and innovation they need throughout their operation.

Our goal is always to be the best provider possible, to be able to help customers solve any problem with the right solution. Toyota Industries Group delivers on that promise. By coupling Toyota Industries Group’s industry-leading expertise with its flagship brands, Toyota Industries Group offers a wide range of solutions in areas such as automation, forklifts, telematics, and robotics.

If it’s a more versatile forklift and warehouse fleet you need, we can help. If you need small scale automation and robotics, we can help. If you need massive automation overhauls, we can help with that, too. And if you need a combination of these things, our four major companies and other strategic operations are partnered to offer one integrative approach.

TIG is at the forefront of advancements in digital technologies and innovations that are driving massive change and creating efficiencies in the supply chain industry to meet demands in e-commerce, inventory management, warehouse operations, and more. Toyota Industries Group is commitment to continued innovation is helping prepare customers for the challenges of tomorrow.

From the factory to the field, Toyota Industries Group meets the diverse needs of customers all around the world. For every challenge, Toyota Industries Group has a reliable solution.

Original Post:  Sarah Nolting, Marketing Manager, Toyota Material Handling

For the past 50 years, Toyota Material Handling has been working to bring you everything you need to help with your material handling needs. In an effort to innovate, TMH is proud to collaborate with Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics (TAL) company. TAL was formed in 2017, when Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) acquired Bastian Solutions, LLC to better align with market changes and customer needs in the area of logistics. TAL focuses on effectively blending advanced warehouse automation with material handling solutions TAL companies are working towards bringing technological enhancements to our customer’s facilities and provide solutions to clients to excel in their markets. Together with Toyota Material Handling, the North American leaders in forklift manufacturing and automation technology work as one to deliver quality and success in a new era of material handling solutions.

What are Advanced Logistics?

Logistics needs are shifting across industries to respond to a changing, internet sales driven era. When we speak of advanced logistics, we mean providing companies with technologies that respond to increased demands of the market and providing integrated material handling solutions that marry automated processes to manual operation. This could be many different things, from automated guided vehicles, to conveyor systems, and even different types of automated order picking machines. There are plenty of technologies that companies can use, and you can work with TAL professionals to see which types would work best for you.

What else does Toyota Advanced Logistics Offer?

As well as offering products to increase your throughput, TAL also offers several services that can assist you in achieving logistics success. Bastian Solutions, for example, can assist with conveyor design, labor management, distribution facility design, and fleet optimization. TAL and Bastian leadership understand the importance of ensuring that your operations are running at maximum efficiency, even after the implementation of the new technology. Operator and Supervisory training, change management, and workforce planning and forecasting are available. Toyota Material Handling and TAL want to make sure you receive a total logistics solution before, during, and after the automation process is installed.

As you can see, Toyota Material Handling and TAL are partnered to deliver on the promise to be the complete solution to your material handling needs. With so many different solutions, we are bound to help your operations increase efficiency, make use of your space, and continually help you reach your highest potential.

Original Post: Lucas Collom, Digital Projects Administrator, Toyota Material Handling