GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Ultimately, performance measurement is a metaphor for tracking any metric in the course of the supply chain , but it's key to being effective is found in transferring the insights gleaned from big data into actionable results.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2015

However, over the course of several months, this slight change in pressure could cause permanent damage to the machine, or it may cause additional problems for other aspects of the manufacturing process. For example, a subtle change in hydraulic pressure may still permit the machine to operate. The supply chain will adore the IoT.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 12, 2015

Starting from the early 1990s, North American and European manufacturers made a beeline to set up factories in China, India, Vietnam and other Asian and African countries where labor was dirt-cheap and the cash-strapped governments of those countries were more than welcoming. Rising costs of labor in China and other places. in 2015, 3.9%

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 5, 2023

Nearshoring Incentives Tariffs on Chinese goods, the war in Ukraine, and of course, Covid all played roles in driving supply chains from global to regional. Mattel has moved its headquarters to Monterrey, where Lego operates its largest factory, and Tesla announced plans for a gigafactory.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Of course, driverless cars are robotically controlled, and they have caused some accidents. In their place, rose giant factories. However, the first robots ever created needed some fine tuning here and there. The Roles of Manufacturing Jobs Are Changing. 20 years ago, 1.8 million people worked in U.S.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Of course, reports Predictive Analytics Times , analytics also possess potential to change how companies obtain the raw materials for their products. In manufacturing, this means engineers, repair workers and factory employees will be able to use augmented reality to complete tasks faster than ever before.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

CNN Money partly attributes the decline in manufacturing jobs to the rise in industrial computer systems on the factory floor. Industrial computing is paving the way for an emerging workforce across the manufacturing sector, and we are of course referring to millennials. There’s an argument that industrial computing creates jobs.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 16, 2016

Preventive Maintenance in the Factory. In other cases, this application of predictive analytics in manufacturing could be used to identify equipment manufacturer defects in machines, saving the factory money and stress in the course of conducting business.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The ongoing self-optimization process of modern systems will give rise to smart, intelligent factories and logistics networks. Of course, other technologies, like robotics, will continue to reshape the industry, so our next will expand on this list of technology trends. Cloud Computing Will Enable Elastic Logistics.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 28, 2016

Is the factory pumping tons of lethal gases into the atmosphere? This program did not require students to obtain prerequisite course credits through other institutions, which helped further the goal of obtaining more applicants and teaching skills in-house, without requiring the use of grants or other financial funding sources.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 6, 2017

So now some factories basically run themselves, with machines telling each other what they need and when. For regular people, the changes are slightly less obvious — except for the resulting unemployment, of course — but we can expect more and more everyday things to be controllable remotely, usually through your phone.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Those brands include Pepsi, of course, but also Lay’s, Quaker, Doritos, Cheetos, and Gatorade. The company is using Blue Yonder for transportation management, Coupa’s Supply Chain Guru for network design, and FourKites ( see the webinar ) for transportation visibility in certain regions or departments to help with this.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Operational risks are those that may occur within a given factory, and functional risks are those that our business functions to support the supply chain entity, such as IT development, financing comment and human resources. Extended value chain must follow and center around a given company's upstream and downstream supply chain partners.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In 1994 Reza Raji described the concept in IEEE Spectrum as “[moving] small packets of data to a large set of nodes, so as to integrate and automate everything from home appliances to entire factories” However, only in 1999 did the field start gathering momentum.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

In the supply chain articles category it is clear the top ten are all about trends, facts, technology, and of course optimization. Participants ranged in roles and company sizes with questions that spanned a variety supply chain management trends of topics such as visibility, factory-of-the-future technology, the Internet of Things and more.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 18, 2017

Of course, a throughout examination of the savings found in the industry must also consider other technologies that are required for wide-scale deployment of robotics to be operational. This is allowing companies to hire entirely new teams of engineers and software experts, which has changed the standard scope of a factory worker’s duties.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

He will even train it to recognize his friends at the door and of course, make sure he is able to know what is going on with his new daughter, Max, at anytime of the day. and Smart Factories all powered by the Internet of Things will make running a supply chain as easy as pushing buttons (of course this all means it was set up correctly!).

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

For some manufacturers, having factories and operations in foreign countries is beneficial to foreign customers, but having factories in the US is also beneficial to US customers. Of course, there are other factors affecting the American push towards reshoring and nearshoring. Can Everything Go Through Reshoring or Nearshoring?

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

While we know this to be true, it doesn’t mean that a factory can’t be built with an eco-friendly outlook. When you have more goods being gathered, refined, and processed, you, of course, have to burn more fuels to create enough energy to carry out these procedures. The more goods you have, the more energy consumed.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 26, 2015

Then, it all appeared to slowly die out over the course of the next 50 years. However, these types of workers are not counted as a manufacturing job, because they don’t work in a factory. During the industrial revolution, manufacturing became the go-to career for the majority of Americans.

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