Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Schneider Electric provides energy management and industrial and building automation products and services. Energy management solutions are products that energy utilities use to produce power and data centers use to consume power. They also produce industrial automation solutions that allow factories to monitor and control production.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Manufacturers and distributors want to dramatically increase their efficiency, productivity and accuracy through smart technologies, data analytics and connected services. These terms are often used interchangeably, and yet understanding the difference is critical in the move toward smart factories powered by digital technologies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

Supply chain practitioners seeking the best way to speed decision intelligence, unify supply chain data, and increase operational efficiency can benefit from a supply chain data gateway. Here are 10 ways a supply chain data gateway can improve your performance across the end-to-end supply chain.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Manual production lines are switching to automated assemblies and valuable data is being used to discover actionable insights into manufacturing operations. IoT sensors in the supply chain and robotics in factories are fluently available. What does the smart factory mean for business? A connected and flexible digital shop floor.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Several years ago, only the bravest and most ambitious enterprises embarked on the digital transformation journey, today the industry landscape has changed. This means making factories smarter for the future. What is the smart factory? How to create a smart factory. Where does your factory need to make improvements?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Manual production lines are switching to automated assemblies and valuable data is being used to discover actionable insights into manufacturing operations. IoT sensors in the supply chain and robotics in factories are fluently available. What does the smart factory mean for business? A connected and flexible digital shop floor.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A practical way that manufacturers can do so is firstly through using data in more comprehensive ways and secondly by embracing digitization to optimize their operations for the future. Optimizing the use of data for manufacturers. Obstacles on the data journey for manufacturers.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 27, 2022

It does present a training requirement, the need for new skills for industry 4.0 Together they conceived the Unimate, the very first industrial robot. Of course, robotics does not tell the full story, as the world of manufacturing has evolved even further over the last few decades, with the rise of data and smart, autonomous systems.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

As manufacturers and distributors inject their operations with innovative technologies in an effort to transform them into smart factories, a shift in how those factories are staffed has emerged. Reskilling and attracting a smart factory workforce. As factories add smarter tech, they’ll need people to manage it.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2025

The combination of SAP agent technologies and Databricks data fabric solution, sets the stage for end-to-end enterprise orchestration. Databricks offers a Data Intelligence Platform. Databricks type of solution is increasingly being called a data fabric or a data platform built on data fabric principles.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But businesses now need these teams to do more by running their production processes faster and autonomously with smart machines and real-time data. Read The MPI Group report, “The Power of Industry 4.0 in Factories,” to find out how Industry 4.0

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How can a manufacturing business today become an intelligent and automated ecosystem – a smart factory that drives productivity, performance, and profitability? Even though there are many benefits that come with digitalising manufacturing capabilities, implementing a new system can be a difficult task, regardless of industry or company size.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 25, 2025

MES vs MOM The term MES (Manufacturing Execution System) was first used by analysts in the 1990s to describe a category of software that defined a system that tracks and monitors the production of manufactured goods on a factory floor. Using these two terms gets some people confused. What is an MES?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 2, 2023

Smart factories are growing in prominence as continued supply chain disruptions and pressures from the 4 th Industrial Revolution make embracing technology a necessity for manufacturers. This blog will look closely at the 6 most pressing challenges posed by smart factories and how an ERP system can help you overcome them.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 3, 2023

The area of AI that manufacturers need to explore to drive their factories into the future is machine learning (ML). What is Machine Learning ML is the computing engine behind AI and gives computers the ability to make sense of, and learn, from data to perform specific tasks without manual interference. The Industry 4.0

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2021

However, the 5G protocol is slowly evolving to add more features for industrial applications. Like many other large industrial manufacturers, Covestro has been very interested in 5G as a key enabler of the Smart Factory. For industry, 5G is a developing technology. Pietro Valsecchi, Covestro’s Expert on 5G.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Sam is the Founder and CEO of Kargo , a San Francisco tech firm that is on a mission to make factory operations as intuitive and responsive as reading Google Maps. In October 2019, Sam founded Kargo with a vision to build the universal data layer between the physical world of freight and the digital ecosystem that manages it.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

According to a survey by ARC Advisory Group, only 10% of industrial companies are ready to apply artificial intelligence/machine learning. The percentage of industrial companies broadly applying agentic AI and generative AI would be a small fraction of that number. ARC has been actively studying industrial AI for over two years.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Manufacturers increasingly turning to data and analytics, from an ERP system, to support business initiatives. Data is after all the fuel that runs the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Challenges to using data. Many manufacturers are data-rich but when it comes to using it they are insight-poor.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Traditional supply chain planning, which relies on historical data and reactive adjustments, is no longer adequate for managing these challenges. When unexpected disruptions occura factory shutdown, a shipping delay, or a supply shortagethese models provide little flexibility.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 13, 2025

Factories have changed hugely in the past 50 years. The smart factory The smart factory represents a transformational change from traditional practices to a connected and flexible system. The smart factory The smart factory represents a transformational change from traditional practices to a connected and flexible system.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

Data centers, electric vehicle charging, and heat pumps are the major new loads for the power grid with new innovations in DC power networks. And warehouses and factories increasingly utilize solar panels. Warehouses and factories can integrate solar panels and wind turbines to lower energy costs and carbon footprints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In short, Apple plans to commit $500 billion in the US over the next four years, hire 20,000 new employees, and expand to their additional 24 factories producing silicon for Apple products. Infrastructure Upgrades Apples plan to upgrade and expand its infrastructure includes significant investments in data centers and other facilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Factories serve local markets. Jack Fiedler : We’re unique in the technology industry. We invest a huge amount of time and resources into our people and making sure that we have the best digital talent in the industry and that we’re doing the most innovative things in the supply chain. We have full visibility.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 18, 2022

While this utopia sounds far-stretched for some, it also illustrates the possibilities presented to manufacturers and distributors by Industry 4.0. The term ‘industry 4.0’ In a nutshell, Industry 4.0 The World Economic Forum goes on to highlight two elements that make industry 4.0 Task Force and even set up Industry 4.0

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Current industrial manufacturing trends show the new administration is pushing for reshoring among the nation’s biggest manufacturers, and new technologies are revolutionizing how companies respond to growing skepticism and scrutiny by the public and government oversight as well. The "First Five" Industrial Manufacturing Trends of 2017.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Information Factory , an independent software vendor specialising in the logistics sector, has launched Business Intelligence as a Service, an end-to-end, fully managed data reporting and analytics system, available on a subscription basis and operating with cloud based technology. Business insights.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 18, 2022

While this utopia sounds far-stretched for some, it also illustrates the possibilities presented to manufacturers and distributors by Industry 4.0. The term ‘industry 4.0’ In a nutshell, Industry 4.0 The World Economic Forum goes on to highlight two elements that make industry 4.0 Task Force and even set up Industry 4.0

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Factory fires were the most frequent event type in the first half of 2018. In addition to natural disasters, factory fires continued to be a significant threat to supply chains. . Factory fires were the most frequent event type in the first half of 2018. . Printer-friendly version.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 6, 2021

” Currently, much of the industrial world is like the consumer world was before cell phones become “smart”. There are companies in every industry that are already embracing the reality of Industry 4.0 There are companies in every industry that are already embracing the reality of Industry 4.0 Digital factory.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 22, 2022

The fabricated metals industry operates with a low margin in a highly competitive market and material availability, production schedules and workforce skills must align to meet customer expectations. Challenge: Skills gap on the factory floor. Challenge: The supply of raw materials and achieving optimum inventory levels.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 5, 2021

Control over trucking freight rating remains a blip for many carriers, particularly owner-operators and those trying to manage the chaos of a pandemic-stressed industry. Now, the industry is changing yet again. Initial demand on the industry will likely generate a stronger ROI for trucking carriers through higher trucking spot rates.

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Airfreight Logistics

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The global air cargo market saw a 4% year-on-year decline in the four weeks to February 2, 2020, according to the latest ‘dynamic load factor’ market intelligence from CLIVE Data Services. But looking at the data in more detail tells a more nuanced picture.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 14, 2023

The concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4.0) can improve the way the factory shop floor works and manufacturers now have all the tools they need to operate a connected shop floor. can improve the way the factory shop floor works and manufacturers now have all the tools they need to operate a connected shop floor.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 3, 2023

A lot can happen throughout the year, but I have listed our biggest predictions for ocean shipping and the broader shipping industry in 2023 below. This is in parallel with overall expectations from other industries, as the status quo will be the same for many different sectors. Lower freight rates.

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IoT World Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Human operators stationed by the assembly line maintain oversight of robotic operations and have smartphone wristbands that display vehicle data from Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints. The Tochigi plant is the first at Nissan to introduce the intelligent factory production line.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Industrial IoT and big data are converging to enable demand-driven 'smart supply chains.' According to industry standard ASTM F2792-10 , AM is defined as, "The process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing technologies.".

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