Industry 4.0 represents another factor. After all, automation is an important approach to remain competitive. So more and more processes, also in the material flow, are being partially or fully automated. The previous manual devices are only needed to a certain extent, but they can't or won't be completely abandoned.
But how can it be done better? GRUMA employs a 20-strong team of specialists, the Linde Fleet Experts, to support its sales team. This special unit consists of fleet managers, optimizers, and consultants, as well as technical advisors, who use their decades of experience to analyze, optimize, and sustainably support the customer's forklift operations so that the customer has optimum availability of industrial trucks at all times without having to worry about necessary and, above all, expensive reserves.
Changes in the fleet composition of customers are not difficult challenges for Linde Fleet Experts, but daily business. With a self-managed rental and short-term hire fleet of more than 9,500 Linde brand forklifts and various special vehicles such as JCB telescopic loaders, Combilift special machines or Bulmor sideloaders and multi-directional forklifts, virtually any demand adjustment that can be planned or occurs at short notice can be made. A forklift fleet that is well organized by Linde Fleet Experts is at all times as small as possible and at the same time as available as necessary. Flexibility is not a marketing word here, but the core of a successful business model that creates satisfied customers who now never have too many forklifts.