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The smart factory Part 2: How manufacturers and distributors can evolve towards the smart factory

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

This means making factories smarter for the future. Here’s a look into the smart factory and the steps to start the path to one taking advantage of the benefits technology can offer. What is the smart factory? How to create a smart factory. Where does your factory need to make improvements?

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The SAP Databricks Alliance is Truly Significant

Logistics Viewpoints

Now the AI agent can scan those documents, and then the large language model has been trained to look at and find all the relevant information- the origin, the destination, the product, and the quantity. Creating agents that connect the factory floor with the rest of the enterprise wont be easy.

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Delivering a smarter factory

Automotive Logistics

Magna Steyr’s vehicle assembly plant in the Austrian city of Graz is not a typical automotive factory; the site, which in 2018 brought its cumulative total production tally to 3.5m has been rebadged as ‘Smart Factory by Magna Steyr’. An initial test saw the wrinkles ironed out and documentation refined.

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No Slavery on Our Factory Floor – How Human Trafficking Laws Can Still Shut You Down

Material Handling and Logistics

In my factory? It’s one thing to walk down to your own factory floor and be able to certify it, but it’s an entirely different matter to know about the conditions of your supplier on another continent. Enforcement of trafficking in the supply chain is in high gear with U.S. Government Enforcement. Manufacturers in the U.S.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

Background TWI stands for Training Within Industry, a program developed during WWII by the U.S. The Commission deployed a series of training programs to teach industrial supervisors: Job Instruction, teaching the skill of breaking down a job and teaching it to others. War Manpower Commission. It is about the 1944 material.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

Moving around a large factory can be exhausting. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has implemented a new process to allow shippers to submit original vehicle export documentation electronically in lieu of delivering physical copies to their local CBP trade office. Media Image. transactionID. 4c81f2b2-cc31-43f9-9b83-b4d9691886a9.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

From upgrading counterfeit detection technology to destroying merchandise and raiding factories, Amazon says it’s pulling out all the stops to prevent fakes on its platform. UPS is bringing new safety training to Louisville and other sites across the country. in a statement.