David Maloney

Pittsburgh

Group Editorial Director at DC Velocity

Editorial Director at Supply Chain Quarterly

Host at Logistics Matters with DC VELOCITY

Editorial Director at Supply Chain Xchange

Chief Editor - DC Velocity

Articles

Ask the experts: What technologies are transforming the supply chain?

1 week ago | thescxchange.com | David Maloney

We live in an interconnected world with advanced technologies that permeate every aspect of today’s supply chains. Without enabling software and the hardware and infrastructure to support these systems, supply chains would go nowhere fast. So, in what ways are technologies impacting our supply chains today? To find out, we “asked the experts”—five professionals from various aspects of supply chains management and the tech companies that help drive them forward.
InPerson interview: Matthew Kelly of Hai Robotics

2 weeks ago | dcvelocity.com | David Maloney

Matthew Kelly has worked for more than eight years in the industrial automation and robotics industries. He is currently the director of business development with Hai Robotics, a manufacturer of storage and transport robotics systems. Prior to that, he worked at Piedmont National, inVia Robotics, and AutoStore. Kelly is a graduate of Piedmont University in Georgia with an MBA in business and economics. Q: How would you describe the current state of the robotics industry?
Staying on track

4 weeks ago | dcvelocity.com | David Maloney

I have always been a train buff. One of my greatest thrills was to ride in a locomotive for a story I wrote a number of years ago. Trains are simply a great way to travel: They’re comfortable, you get to enjoy the scenery, and you’re spared the monotony of long-distance driving. While the U.S. has a fine system of Amtrak trains, you have to experience high-speed trains in Europe or Japan to fully appreciate the rail travel experience.
The value of thinking like a mouse: an interview with Ian Williams

1 month ago | dcvelocity.com | David Maloney

You could say that Ian Williams has a passion for bugs and rodents, though it’s less about a deep love for the critters than about keeping them out of warehouses and other inappropriate places. Williams is a technical services manager for pest control company Orkin, a wholly owned subsidiary of commercial services and pest control company Rollins Inc.
Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook science

1 month ago | science.org | Sarah Crespi |Meagan Cantwell |David Maloney |Jocelyn Kaiser

First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell worked with the Science News team to review how the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration have impacted science. In the segment, originally produced for video, we hear about how the workforce, biomedical research, and global health initiatives all face widespread, perhaps permanent damage, with News staffers David Malakoff, Jocelyn Kaiser, and Rachel Bernstein.
Retrofitting for Energy Savings

2 months ago | iotevolutionworld.com | Carl Ford |David Maloney

David Maloney recently interviewed, for DC Velocity, Dr. Robert Sroufe, who teaches at the Falk School of Sustainability and Environment at Pittsburgh’s Chatham University. Dr. Sroufe holds a patent for a system designed to track greenhouse gases and has also been ranked among the top 2% of scientists globally, based on standardized citation metrics.
Lifting America: an interview with Hamilton Galloway

2 months ago | dcvelocity.com | David Maloney

Lift trucks are widely acknowledged to be the powerhouse of the warehouse. But did you know the overall forklift industry is a powerhouse in its own right—in this case, an economic powerhouse that contributes over $36 billion annually to the U.S. economy? That was one of the key findings of a new report from the Industrial Truck Association (ITA), a trade group for manufacturers of lift trucks, automated guided vehicles, and similar equipment, and independent research firm Oxford Economics.
Report: Trucking, warehousing pay up in Q1

2 months ago | dcvelocity.com | David Maloney

Despite the uncertain economic climate, wages for truck drivers and warehouse staff surged in the first quarter amid strong demand for frontline workers nationwide, according to a report from resume-building platform Resume Now and talent-matching platform Talroo, released this week. The companies’ Q1 frontline worker demand index found that wages in trucking and warehousing rose 16% and 15%, respectively, year-over-year as job openings in both sectors remained strong.
3PL tackles LTL

2 months ago | dcvelocity.com | Gary Frantz |Eva Ponce |Laura Lorenzo Allegue |David Maloney

Leaders at third-party logistics services provider (3PL) Trinity Logistics needed to get a better handle on the complexities of managing its less-than-truckload (LTL) business—so they turned to technology to solve the problem.
Warehouse automation market could be bruised by tariffs

2 months ago | dcvelocity.com | David Maloney |Diane Rand

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