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Robot Picking just like the real thing

Logistics Business Magazine

RightHand Robotics , based just outside Boston and founded in 2015, manufacture the most important part of the robotic picking arm – the ‘hand’. This frees-up staff to add a personal touch to customer order engagement, for example by writing a gift note for the package.” This product is called ‘RightPick’.

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KataCon People: Skip Steward

The Lean Thinker

While many conferences are an audience listening to keynote presentations, KataCon is more of an annual get-together of a community. For example – I think it was Beth last year that said “We don’t experiment toward the target condition, we experiment against obstacles.” That lets us avoid training for its own sake.

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CILT releases driver shortage report

Logistics Business Magazine

In 2015, The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) carried out an opinion survey looking at the driver shortage crisis. The aim of this report is to establish a series of recommendations to fleet operators, industry and government, by examining the data and comparing it to the last report from 2015. Goods movement.

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“Selling Baoli creates strong customer relationships”

Logistics Business Magazine

the forklift truck manufacturer which is part of the KION Group, is currently present in 52 countries and pursues the ambitious goal of being successfully represented in 86 markets in the EMEA economic area in the coming years. The machine is presented there, tested together and evaluated. Baoli EMEA S.p.A. , MV: Very important!

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

The executives surveyed identified these positions as those they believe currently most affected and that they expect will present even more severe staffing difficulties by 2020. Averting this outcome depends upon business leaders and government policymakers to actually implement measures to reverse the present trend. Skills Shortages.

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Here’s Why Image of Manufacturing as Boring, Dirty, and Tedious is Drastically Changing

GlobalTranz

Each setting is an accurate image of manufacturing from different time periods in history, the past and the present. Ironically, manufacturing represents one of the most stable, growing sectors of the economy and boasts a low unemployment rate of 4 percent in December 2015, explains the US Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

For example, how would you deal with the following situations in procurement? Read on for more about these examples in the text that follows. Stolen and black-market supplies are further examples. For example: If senior management does not know about the lack of ethics, or if it takes no action, then it is essentially inept.