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

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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. They also put out this fantastic video about Millennials' thoughts on the image of manufacturing. .

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Digital Disruption: Closing the Connectivity Gap in Manufacturing with Digital Operations

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It was done by Polycom, a maker of video collaboration solutions for enterprises. 1 One consultancy believes the change will happen even faster, with 1 billion new buyers opening their wallets by 2015. Crowdsourcing networks not only provide new ideas – they also vote on them – eliminating beta test groups and surveys.

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The State of the Health of The US Manufacturing Sector & Manufacturing Technology Orders

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Last month we talked about customer satisfaction surveying and the Net Promotor Score; this month we are looking more specifically at the health of manufacturing sector in the US and the manufacturing technology orders (largely metal cutting machine tools). As Pat pointed out in the AMT video some industries are still doing well.

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Freightera Introduces Value-Added Membership Plans for Shippers

Freightera

Freightera is one of the top growth companies in the North American freight transportation industry, having increased revenues 240% per year since 2015, making it the third fastest-growing company in British Columbia. Shipment analysis and optimization. Priority handling • Shipping labels. The ability to export shipping data to Excel.

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Still Think Dangerous Goods is Just Paperwork and Labels?

Talking Logistics

As reported by The Guardian : The items included lithium-ion batteries and flammable aerosols, which were flown in and out of the UK between January 2014 and June 2015. Over one-third of the survey respondents said that their supervisors are unaware of exactly what they do. Watch the video to find out! Sound familiar?

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The Ever Increasing Role of Robotics in Transforming Manufacturing

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If the auto industry videos you were shown in high school come to mind, you are not alone. According to a PwC and Zpryme Survey , the use of robots is impacting workers by creating new job opportunities in the field of robot repair and Engineering of advanced robotics and systems. So, how does this affect the workforce.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] AI Technologies: The Role of Humans & The Application in Logistics

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Microsoft, in their experiment featuring Tay, the social media AI to mimic millennials, found that AI still has a long way to go, according to the video below. But your preschooler may have better common sense and, clearly better language. .