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Construction Industry Benefits from U.S. Factory-Building Boom

Supply Chain Brain

A backlog of orders and higher demand from new factories are boosting manufacturing companies and driving demand for materials like steel and the trucks needed to transport big industrial shipments.

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India Facing Surprising Shortage of Factory Workers

Supply Chain Brain

Instead of seeing workers move onto factory floors, India appears instead to be de-industrializing.

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The smart factory Part 3: What does the factory of the future look like

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

IoT sensors in the supply chain and robotics in factories are fluently available. In the last decade alone, we have seen factories move from basic digitization to more predictive power. Technology is making an impact at every step of the manufacturing process and across nearly every industry.

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Industry 4.0: Building the right skills to meet the factory of the future

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

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. The term ‘ Industry 4.0 ’ was coined in 2011 to describe this new era of new technological innovations including advances in AI , ML and cloud computing as well as data analytics.

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How to Prepare Your Supply Chain for Future Shortages

There has been an increased need for electronic components in every industry. Manufacturers that don’t have a direct relationship with chip factories, such as those producing automobiles, heavy industrial equipment, medical diagnostics equipment, and electronics, are greatly affected. How to better understand the chip industry.

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The smart factory Part 3: What does the factory of the future look

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

IoT sensors in the supply chain and robotics in factories are fluently available. In the last decade alone, we have seen factories move from basic digitization to more predictive power. Technology is making an impact at every step of the manufacturing process and across nearly every industry.

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

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

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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