Any time there is disruption, confusion or change, there is also opportunity for improvement.

Although the economic hardships of 2008 and 2009 make looking back painful, the business adjustments implemented in order to survive have created tremendous opportunities to achieve or sustain new levels of operating efficiency going forward.

The economy is up, and hopefully it will continue to improve. As it does, production and distribution capacities will again need to increase. Most companies now have a unique situational opportunity to improve their go-forward operating efficiencies beyond prerecession levels.

Today it would be disappointing to find a single business strategy that did not include a plan for a better return when previous top lines are regained. The chosen people, processes and facilities that survived the difficult cutbacks can generally do a lot more, but they all need a little help. Investments in equipment, hardware and software can optimize these surviving assets and offer immediate returns as revenues continue to grow.

Every day we help companies improve work environments. Our products simplify and speed up common industrial tasks like palletizing, packaging, order picking and many more. Furthermore, we can help make jobs in manufacturing, warehousing and retail facilities a little more attractive to the workforces that were chosen to survive the cutbacks.

By helping to provide good workers with good jobs, Southworth can assist companies to sustain the productivity efficiencies that were painfully gained during the downturn and potentially grow the bottom line throughout the evolving upturn.

Southworth’s complete line of ergonomic equipment includes:

• Backsaver® Lift Tables
  
• E-Z Reach™ Container Tilters
  
• PalletPal® Level Loaders
  
•  Dandy Lifts™ Lifter/Transporters
  
• PalletPal® Pallet Rotators
  
• Worker Platforms
  
•  Specialty and Custom-Engineered Lifts