{"id":7612,"date":"2020-03-16T09:58:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2020-03-16T09:58:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:58:22","slug":"toyota-funds-university-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/toyota-funds-university-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Funds University Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/toyota-material-handling-u-s\/\">Toyota Material Handling North America (TMHNA)<\/a> has selected two universities\u2019 research proposals to receive funding through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/toyota-material-handling-u-s\/\">TMHNA<\/a> University Research Program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/toyota-material-handling-u-s\/\">TMHNA<\/a> announced the recipients of grant funding during a joint press conference at MODEX 2020 held in conjunction with MHI. The research proposals selected for funding include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dynamic Capacitive Wireless Charging System for Autonomous MH Vehicles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proposal Author: Prof. Khurram Afridi, Cornell University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Material Handling for Industry 4.0 in Small and Medium Enterprises<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proposal Author: Prof. Jorge Dorribo Camba, Purdue University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sponsored research program was created to drive the next generation of technology for the supply chain, logistics and material handling industries. The program encourages university professors and researchers to apply their knowledge of engineering and technical fields, drawing synergies and collaboration between collegiate research and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/toyota-material-handling-u-s\/\">TMHNA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The University Research Program, now in its fourth year, attracted a record 44 research proposals from 30 leading universities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur University Research Program is reflective of Toyota\u2019s mission to solve challenges creatively,\u201d said Brett Wood, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/toyota-material-handling-u-s\/\">TMHNA<\/a> President and CEO. \u201cIn partnering with leading universities, we seek to foster industry-led innovation by combining our resources and guidance with the fresh and new ideas coming out of academia. Together in the spirit of collaboration, we hope to build a better, safer, more efficient future for the material handling industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7613\" style=\"width: 1414px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7613\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-16-at-09.49.33.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-16-at-09.49.33.png 1404w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-16-at-09.49.33-768x519.png 768w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-16-at-09.49.33-400x270.png 400w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-16-at-09.49.33-341x230.png 341w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-16-at-09.49.33-440x297.png 440w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-16-at-09.49.33-570x385.png 570w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-16-at-09.49.33-481x325.png 481w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-16-at-09.49.33-563x380.png 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With nearly 3 million square feet of manufacturing space, TMHNA is composed of five manufacturing plant locations: Columbus, Indiana; East Chicago, Indiana; Greene, New York; Muscatine, Iowa; and Oakville, Ontario, Canada that produce racking products and more than 1,500 forklifts per week.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/toyota-material-handling-u-s\/\">TMHNA<\/a> University Research Program including information on previously funded projects and how to apply, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.UniversityResearchProgram.com\">UniversityResearchProgram.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Material Handling North America (TMHNA) has selected two universities\u2019 research proposals to receive funding through the TMHNA University Research Program. 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The research proposals selected for funding include: Dynamic Capacitive Wireless Charging System for Autonomous&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/toyota-funds-university-research\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[157,106,269,40,62,4585,2791,2304],"class_list":["post-7612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-featured","category-news","tag-logistics","tag-material-handling","tag-material-handling-education","tag-modex","tag-supply-chain","tag-toyota-lift-truck","tag-toyota-material-handling","tag-warehouse-trucks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Toyota Funds University Research - Find A Distributor Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/toyota-funds-university-research\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toyota Funds University Research - Find A Distributor Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Toyota Material Handling North America (TMHNA) has selected two universities\u2019 research proposals to receive funding through the TMHNA University Research Program. 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