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To help companies stay competitive in today's business environment, Just-in-Time (JIT) requires materials, personnel, and facilities be acquired and used only as needed. Objectives are to improve throughput time by eliminating waste, reducing costs, and improving product quality.

Topper Industrial's new Tube Division will open July 1, 2016. Ed Brown, founder of Topper Industrial, announced that the company will launch a new division called Topper Tube. Topper Industrial will add Gravity Flow Racks and Tubular Workstations to their line of material handling products. Topper Industrial makes gravity flow racks and work stations, industrial cart, containers, delivery systems, lift and rotate systems, conveyors and racking.

Ryan Brown is the president of Topper Industrial since 2010. Like his father, Ed Brown the father of the North American fork truck free movement, Ryan Brown began as a material handler on the shop floor at Topper Industrial in 1994 and has steadily moved up with in the company through hard work and strong work ethics; he has virtually held a position at every level of the company from janitorial, general labor, machine operator, welding, painting, and assembly to supervisor, plant manager and ultimately president. During this time Brown has worked closely with his family and coworkers to create a more constructive work flow and management that helped the company prosper.

Fork truck free initiatives require that careful consideration of industrial carts. The best industrial cart manufacturers, of which Topper Industrial is rated best, provide ergonomic data and lean best practice solutions.

Topper Industrial's focus is on preventing the impact an accident can have on operations. Beyond the obvious and unacceptable emotional cost to employees, the direct and indirect costs of an accident – from workers' compensation benefits and lost productivity to damaged goods and machinery – can accelerate quickly.

Ed Brown, founder of Topper Industrial, is a leading proponent of the North American Fork Truck Free Initiative. Brown noted that the frequency of fork truck operator error is free and cited the NIST report that approximately every three days someone in the U.S. is killed in a fork truck related accident.

To help companies stay competitive in today's business environment, Just-in-Time (JIT) requires materials, personnel, and facilities be acquired and used only as needed. Objectives are to improve throughput time by eliminating waste, reducing costs, and improving product quality.

Topper Industrial recently shared the importance of manufacturers focusing on preventing accidents and the corresponding positive impacts on operations. Of course accidents cause an unacceptable emotional cost to employees; the direct and indirect costs of an accident – from workers' compensation benefits and lost productivity to damaged goods and machinery – can accelerate quickly and must also be considered.

Topper Industrial is committed to eliminated forklift related pedestrian injuries and fatalities. Every three days, someone in the United States is killed in a forklift-related accident, and nearly 80 percent of forklift accidents involve a pedestrian. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), approximately 70 percent of all accidents reported could have been avoided with proper safety precautions. Despite the fact that employers and industry leaders are well aware of the dangers associated with forklift operations, many businesses fail to take appropriate measures to prevent such costly misfortunes. Tackling these disturbing injuries and fatalities head-on is Topper Industrial.

According to Ed Brown, Founder of Topper Industrial U.S. manufacturers facing labor shortages are turning to a fork truck free environment to meet product requirements.