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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

If you want to get more of a feel for the work and working conditions, check out the photos in this Daily Mirror article: [link] ). In the late 1940s the industrial engineers turned this craft production system into a factory system with the tasks divided between three shifts. ” The system was not without its problems, however.

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Straight Talk on 5G for Industrial Applications

Logistics Viewpoints

Dr. Valsecchi spoke at ARC’s Accelerating Digital Transformation in a Post-COVID World on a 5G panel and then expanded on his thinking after I sent him a draft of the article. Like many other large industrial manufacturers, Covestro has been very interested in 5G as a key enabler of the Smart Factory.

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AR Initiatives Show Promise Amid COVID-19 Fallout

IoT World Today

Key takeaways in this article: In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, augmented reality may have an immediate impact. After many pilots and proofs of concept, more AR initiatives could move into production, according to a Boston Consulting Group and PTC study. . Notably, not all AR activity requires futuristic head-up displays.

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Celanese Leads the Pack When it Comes to Agentic AI

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC has been actively studying industrial AI for over two years. He also spoke at the ARC forum in 2023, and this article is based on that presentation as well. Maximizing factory throughput is critical. The percentage of industrial companies broadly applying agentic AI and generative AI would be a small fraction of that number.

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Exiger Has Taken the Supply Chain Risk Market by Storm

Logistics Viewpoints

Mr. Daniels reports they have 870 employees, so based on a market study recently completed by ARC, this claim is credible. Exiger also has relationships with Google and Microsoft that allow them to read articles on the OpenWeb. This means that the solution understands all the different kinds of parts needed to manufacture a product.

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Achieving Maturity in Risk Management Takes Years

Logistics Viewpoints

If a supplier’s continued material flow becomes questionable for a wide range of reasons, the way that supplier’s components flow to various factories and nodes in the supply chain is graphically illustrated and the appropriate commodity managers are automatically notified. The full explanation is beyond the scope of this article.

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The Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts from 2014

GlobalTranz

INFOGRAPHIC: 3D Printing and the Supply Chain to Drastically Alter Manufacturing: Who would have thought that modern manufacturing could be done without a factory? Since the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing has been synonymous with factories, machine tools, production lines and economies of scale. Read Full Post. Read Full Post.

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