Morai Logistics

MARCH 18, 2020

Safety in factories is paramount—here are some material handling tips for factory workers. Given their knowledge of proper protocol on the factory floor, we were more than happy to accept their proposed blog post. It is common to see workers handling or moving materials in a factory. ” (Learn more about them here ).

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NGT News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

factory, guaranteeing quality, safety and efficiency in every aspect of design, […]. The post New Mexico Selects BYD to Meet Fleet Sustainability Goals appeared first on NGT News. New Mexico officials have chosen BYD to participate in a statewide purchase agreement that gives transit agencies throughout the U.S.

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 8, 2024

Behind every transformer is a logistical journey managed by experts like MTS Logistics, ensuring these critical components make their trek from factory to farm seamlessly and efficiently. It’s a dynamic landscape, where technological and financial innovation meets logistics. The post The U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A production plan from an IBP meeting should be considered a rough-cut long-term plan, merely the best estimation of what was likely, not something written in stone. Production, in the short term, needed to flex to meet new opportunities and unexpected constraints. This realization led to a new focus on agile planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Mr. Masson points out the “challenges are not just about the volume, but also the complexity and fragmentation of data generated by sensors, machines, and smart factories. For instance, advanced factory scheduling solutions use predictive maintenance inputs, which rely on sensor data to forecast equipment failures.

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The Lean Thinker

AUGUST 13, 2019

The factory is running complex automated equipment. At the morning meeting today we heard “machine x was down for broken bolts.” After the meeting, I saw the production manager on the shop floor. “So, Actually “again.”. Background – the bolts in question resist pressure in molding equipment. So, tell me about the broken bolts.”

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Women in Trucking

AUGUST 13, 2024

Fast-forward today, and the factory is able to produce more than ten times the original amount or trucks each day. It’s what one might call a well-oiled machine – and five members of the Women In Trucking Association’s (WIT) staff team experienced it first-hand earlier this year prior to a board of directors meeting in February.

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Logistics Manager

MARCH 31, 2020

MSC notes that China has begun to show signs of recovery with factories restarting production and the new SOT program will help avoid high storage costs at ports of discharge. The post MSC Unveils New Flexible Cargo Service to Meet Demand From Asia appeared first on Logistics Manager.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2023

In Singapore, the German industrial conglomerate will reportedly spend €200 million to build a facility that will produce factory automation devices to meet rising Asian demands.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

The factory models can include how long it takes to set up a machine, how many units per hour can be made by the machine, how long routine maintenance takes, how many workers are needed, and the hours the plant works, among others. The ability to meet that demand can be less than expected. This would be a three-way tradeoff.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Increasingly it is recognized that the executive planning meetings, that typically take place once a month, should be chaired by a top floor executive – a chief financial officer, chief operations officer, or even chief executive officer. Your inventory levels in the factory are right, your routings are accurate.

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WorkWave

MARCH 27, 2025

Without this shared foundation, meetings and action plans can stall because different stakeholders are bringing conflicting numbers from different data sources, leaving decision-makers wondering, Which version should we believe? These insights can inform risk assessments and strategic planning to meet business requirements.

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The Lean Thinker

APRIL 20, 2020

The whole goal of an ideal “Just-in-Time” system is that we have only the capacity required to meet the demand. It is also true in many traditional factories. This gives us a “time per unit of output” that we have to achieve if we are going to get everything done.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

The standard process for delivering finished product is to place an order at a factory. The factory then builds, tests, and ships product – often within 24 hours. But the just-in-case maintenance inventory also turned out to be helpful for meeting surges in demand for finished products. Over time that number undoubtedly went up.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Many of today’s manufacturing trends are in line with the industry’s goals to improve processes, create more efficiency, and meet consumer demand. Another reason for increased output is the changes in manufacturing factories and their companies. Some manufacturers are even pushing the limit and testing our “dark factories”.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Getting costs under control is important for a good return on capital investment and to ensure factory equipment is operating at optimum capacity and profitability. Using a quality management system ensures goods inspected on arrival meet the required standards and that products leave the factory at the standard customers expect.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A company with one factory and one DC, reorganizing the location and duties of the facilities, will have little opportunity to drive much in the way of payback from a network design solution. Scenarios are run, and the low-cost network that best meets customer service objectives is selected.

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Locus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Heres What Can Happen in The Coming Months Manufacturing Slowdowns: Major production hubs may face labor shortages, potentially causing factories to operate below capacity. Health-related absenteeism and operational challenges can disrupt output, leaving industries struggling to meet demand.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2015

Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make southern coastal China the world’s factory floor. No more warehouses full of old and outdated goods, but a situation in which supply will truly meet demand and not only in theory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A network design model figures out where factories and warehouses should be located. A planner could ask the SCP engine to achieve 95% service, with CO2 emissions under of under a million metric tons at a given factory in the coming month. A factory planning solution will model the factory floor set up times by machine for example.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Many of today’s manufacturing trends are in line with the industry’s goals to improve processes, create more efficiency, and meet consumer demand. To combat the shortage, manufacturers are looking for ways to recruit and retain skilled talent, by raising wages and reskilling current talent to meet company needs. Industry 4.0

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In the late 1940s the industrial engineers turned this craft production system into a factory system with the tasks divided between three shifts. Their conclusion, in short, was that the new work organization was built around the paradigm of a factory assembly line without regard for the variation of geology. The Long Wall Method.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 9, 2022

The cargo volume at Shanghai port decreased significantly in April, as many factories closed, warehouses closed, and transportation options were limited. Authorities sought to meet a specific prevention target by April 20th, but only two districts were able to do so.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

Making the situation worse, trucking companies haven’t been able to hire back enough drivers to meet demand. T he goal is to have the minimum amount of inventory on hand (plus a safety stock) to meet demand. . The current war in Ukraine will further destabilize the global supply chain.

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ShipLilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

According to information obtained from at least three executives from some of the largest container lines, there is a concerted effort to meet the surprisingly high demand from US shippers. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, many factories were forced to close to avoid cross infections. Most ships are actually on the water at the moment.

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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: Meeting unique customer requirements. Challenge: Skills gap on the factory floor.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 4, 2021

During the pandemic ERP kept industries in operation with its ability to sustain business operations through remote access to data, automated reporting, electronic data exchange, and real-time factory controls. Initiatives that will meet your ROI as a CEO will be guided by and from the factory floor data itself.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This variability in manufacturing operations led the OTTO team to develop its AMR offering as a platform on which applications can be activated to meet specific needs. One is an OPC UA-based interface for connecting to the factory control layer. OTTO’s technology development is guided by three main tenets.

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

So to meet capacity, airlines started to convert passenger planes into cargo planes at scale. So when a COVID outbreak hit the port of Yantian – which services factories in the Shenzhen area and handles about 13 million TEU (20’ containers) a year – supply chains were already teetering. Credit: Lufthansa ).

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

How can you get the factory to truly change their processes to make a better product? Even fixes that strike you as a “no brainer” might not have been considered by the factory. This is especially true for a factory that is less-established and hasn’t yet developed effective quality management systems. .

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Ship Monk

APRIL 23, 2024

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainability as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” What Does Sustainability Mean? There are several ways to get certified as a sustainable company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2022

With the launch of its private label brand, SanMar began product development, sourcing, and working with global factories. SanMar has committed to third party audits for every factory they do business with. The GM of the DC that had the highest box re-use rate was awarded the Box King award at the annual General Manager’s meeting.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

They realized then that Boeing had to transform itself from an engineering company focused solely on meeting engineering challenges to one focused on meeting the needs of the customers. But the key to meeting the needs of the customers was more than just understanding those needs better.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

MASSROBOTICS hosted a meeting on September 8 to discuss the proposed scope for version 2 of its AMR Interoperability Standard. Version 1.0 of the MassRobotics Interoperability Standard was launched in May 2021. A FedEx facility was designated as the location for the first use-case of the standard. rather than overwriting it.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 9, 2018

We have 3 factories, one in USA, one in China and one in the Netherlands (in the city of Edam). We have worldwide demand for all kinds of products and services and as I mentioned before, we have 3 different factories. We were trying to optimize the workload between these factories to have our manufacturing be as efficient as possible.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Less need for specialized IT and shorter development cycles – The current supply of software engineers or coding specialists is unable to meet business demand, as we know experienced developers are hard to hire. Needs to fit in your long-term strategy – Manufacturers should focus on configuring solutions to meet their unique business needs.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 6, 2023

The line was implemented in a new factory with a total area of 10,000 m² and started operations in March of this year. It will be dedicated to small utility vehicles that will be equipped with batteries from WEG, a Brazilian company that will supply the Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) set.

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