New York Times Reports on “The High Cost of Heat”
The New York Times published a story on August 10, 2023, to their podcast series, The Daily, titled “Lives, Livelihoods, and the High Cost of Heat.” In this episode, NYT reporter, Sabrina Tavernise, asks the question, “What is the physical and economic consequences of...
RDC’s Stance on Artificial Intelligence
You don’t have to go far these days to read about the ever-increasing pace of development with artificial intelligence, GPT, chatbots, and the like. It seems every day some new advancement in this field is front page news! Many companies look to these advancements in...
3 Reasons Industrial Fans Should be Your Facility’s Summer Project
Nowadays, it takes a large and diverse group of people to run a facility and keep product coming in and out of doors. Because of this, trying to please everyone with enhancements, upgrades, projects, and remodels is usually out of the question. There is one project,...
RDC Recognized as MaxChoice Innovation Award Finalist
RDC is proud to share it was recognized as a finalist for the MaxChoice awards presented by ServiceMax at its annual conference in May. ServiceMax has been an essential business application for three years at RDC, helping facilitate work orders, scheduling, time...
RDC Keeps Rolling
In the late 1980s, Robert Dietrick Company was a small family business with a one-office operation. A fleet of 5 trucks and Installers, 1 Service Manager, and 1 dedicated Service/Planned Maintenance Technician with 500 pieces of equipment under contract. The goal was...
3 Steps to Prevent Downtime at the Loading Dock
Taking a proactive approach at the loading dock with regard to maintenance is essential for a company to keep operations and productivity at a high level. Downtime at a loading dock position may cause operations to slow down or come to a stop. This could be the result...
RDC Recognized by Rite-Hite as a Top Distributor
Rite-Hite recently recognized Robert Dietrick Company as the recipient of the Arthur K. White Award for the 2022 business year. This annual recognition goes to a distributor who excels in Sales and continued business development within the ranks of Rite-Hite...
Where We Go from Here
This post on the RDC blog may be a bit different from the content we typically post. Usually, there is an air of formality and a subject of product or service education associated with the articles we publish. But this post will be a bit more informal and personal...
Moving on Up with Vertical Lifts
Robert Dietrick Company is a trained and certified installer and maintainer of vertical reciprocating conveyors by Pflow industries. These vertical lifts, or VRC’s, are industrial solutions to help manufacturing facilities and distribution centers move heavy loads to...
Evolve Your Facility with ZoneWorks by Rite-Hite
The need for new processes to keep up with evolving trends is a consistent challenge in a production facility. And working around current processes to maintain output requires adaptable and modular solutions. ZoneWorks is an industrial curtain wall product from...
Grow Up, Instead of Out, with Industrial Mezzanines in Your Facility
Being an Industrial Solutions Provider, to us, means meeting new challenges with innovative approaches. Today, many RDC customers share their desire to grow and expand in square footage but lack the physical footprint to do so in their current facilities. For many,...
Prepare for Winter with Snow Removal Machines from Rite-Hite
Winter is coming and, if your business is in a part of the United States that gets snow, with it comes to the risks that snow accumulation can cause on top of a semi-trailer. When trucks sit overnight, snowfall can build up to the point that it can become a hazard for...