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Left: E-Line material-handling aerial work platforms from Elliott feature working heights from 120 to 240 feet. The manufacturer also offers HiReach truck-mounted aerials that can operate at heights ranging from 45 to 140 feet.
Top Right: Elliott offers a range of customizable BoomTruck cranes. The 40142 model has an 80,000-pound lifting capacity, a boom length of 142 feet and a maximum tip height of 207 feet.
As a manufacturer of cranes, truck-mounted aerial work platforms and other equipment used by the lifting, construction and utility industries since 1948, Elliott Equipment Company has many decades of experience on the challenges facing their customers and how a customerfocused approach leads to the development of effective products and services.
Jim Glazer, president & CEO who has led Elliott Equipment Company since 2000, noted that while the company has a full slate of products in development, recent supply chain challenges also had to be addressed.“ Lead times were longer than two years at one point, and due to component availability issues truck chassis manufacturers were forced to allocate supply, effectively putting an additional constraint on the market,” he said.
“ With a fluid supply chain, complicated by pent-up demand to replace aging fleets, and the whole industry shipping at less than a standard rate, there was a sizable imbalance between supply and demand,” Glazer continued.“ It took a while to clear, but our team has done several things over the past few years to improve our efficiency and position Elliott for further growth.
“ We reconfigured many of our manufacturing processes using 5S / Kaizen, cellular flow and in-process quality gates to improve throughput,” Glazer explained further.“ That’ s helped shorten and make lead times more manageable for our customers.”
Glazer also pointed out that strong partnerships with chassis manufacturers make a significant difference for fleets.“ It means the industry can deliver equipment that is optimized for a given chassis, and it also ensures we stay informed about evolving ECM programming changes from the chassis OEMs,” he said.
“ These relationships also provide the flexibility to customize setups, so customers get exactly what they need,” Glazer added.“ And if something does go wrong, having that connection means faster support and service, which keeps downtime to a minimum.”
Glazer cited other issues for manufacturers, dealers and customers. Higher costs associated with tariffs will likely play a role going forward, he noted, and some chassis suppliers are already raising prices. Emissions requirements are another challenge.
Depending on regulatory changes in California and other states, chassis availability in those areas may be impacted.
“ Our industry’ s workforce is always something to pay attention to as well,” Glazer stated.“ To help attract younger workers interested in doing utility work and servicing equipment, for example, we’ re making machines easier to operate and maintain. Technologies like on-board telematics and remote diagnostics that support predictive maintenance also allow fleets to improve uptime and fleet utilization. Beyond their operational and maintenance benefits, those systems can
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