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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. These study missions were quite eye-opening for the participants.

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Fatigued operators are 7.3x greater accident risk

Logistics Business Magazine

A 2013 study by the US Department of Transportation (US DoT) is receiving newfound attention, due to the recent release of ReadiML, the Machine Learning software from Fatigue Science that operationalises a scientific fatigue prediction model for daily use by transportation fleets. The SAFTE Effectiveness Score is now known as the ReadiScore).

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Hoping and planning for the best: understanding war without logistics

Logistics in War

The second, Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, saw the logistics system falter during the advance at An Najaf , reminding operational planners that the contemporary logistics system based upon new assumptions and concepts was an entirely different beast. This year Logistics in War seeks your help to continue its offerings. & Coakley, R.,

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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. One study of twentieth-century conflicts since 1939 found that the average time between the ‘first indication of war and the firing of the first shots has been 14.3 By David Beaumont.

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Suggested Reading continued.what to avoid, unless you are stuck in O'hare!

Blog on Log

Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution” by Michael Hammer and James Champy (Collins, 2003) Publisher’s blurb: “This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company’s processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.” Good luck.

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MIT Restructures Itself to Shape the Future of Computing & Artificial Intelligence

247 Customs Broker

MIT has announced a new $1 billion commitment to address the global opportunities and challenges presented by the prevalence of computing and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing will build on MIT’s legacy of excellence in computation and the study of intelligence.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

This is a long way around to noting that most economic predictions these days are always accompanied by the caveat “…as long as tariffs don’t cause too much damage,” a common refrain among industry association economists in their presentations at the American Trucking Associations Annual Economic Summit held in September. Blockchain.