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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example.

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The Role of Robust Logistics in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

Logistics Business Magazine

Implemented in 2003, updated in 2017 Good Distribution Practices (GDP) defines the standards of transporting the pharmaceutical products, which is crucial and required to comply with by logistics companies. For example, combining HVO fuel and/or BEV with intermodal solutions gives the opportunity to significantly reduce emissions E2E.

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Gartner Releases Report on How to Secure Supply Chains Amidst the Coronavirus Outbreak

Logistics Manager

The challenge of globalization Although the outbreak is being compared to the 2003 SARS outbreak, China is now much more developed and integrated with the global economy, and the country has significantly improved its transportation networks. Epidemics and pandemics present a different scenario.

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Briton joins pallet pioneers in Hall of Fame

Logistics Business Magazine

The TRATON Logistics Leader of the Year Award will also be presented during the reception. For example, HAVI is helping leading foodservice brands to work toward ambitious emissions targets. The award is presented by the Logistics Hall of Fame and donated by TRATON SE. Humphrey is Logistics Leader of the Year.

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Making the military prepared and resilient – logistics, supply-chains and problems within

Logistics in War

This is the second part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. In 2003, as the US Army sped through Iraq, it was the tightening noose of an extended supply chain – one that many believed should be lean before the conflict – which forced an operational pause on the way to Baghdad.

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Who Defines the Robot?

Logistics Business Magazine

At every trade show, companies present classic six-axis multi-link robots that are supposed to make their way from the manufacturing to the logistics sector. Our COM palletizing machine, for example, is one of these specialists. Small parts picking is the plan.

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20 Years of OPM Automation

Logistics Business Magazine

The revolution in food retail logistics began in Parkstein in 2003. When the solution was first presented to the company, I thought: What a brilliant idea. The new machines were proudly presented to the relatives at the family’s day,” Högen remembers the first system that was implemented in Phoenix, Arizona.