Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 28, 2023

companies opening factories in Mexico, for example, nor investment in private real estate. MacroFab also taps into unused capacity at a network of more than 100 partner factories in the U.S., private-capital firms and the companies they own are increasingly looking to Mexico. That was down from a record $5.6 billion volume of 2019.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 5, 2023

Mattel has moved its headquarters to Monterrey, where Lego operates its largest factory, and Tesla announced plans for a gigafactory. Over 15,000 trucks and $800 million worth of goods crossed the border at Laredo last year, and those figures will only grow with nearshoring.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 17, 2017

In a blog post earlier this year, we noted how since the election, more manufactures have expressed interest in reshoring and avoiding offshoring entirely. However, manufacturers are considering other ways of improving factories and supply chains as well. Smart factories eliminate waste and redundancies. Across the U.S.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because most of these companies, their first step will be to build some sort of factory, some sort of distribution center in Mexico that would bring their supply chain closer to the U.S. “Nearshoring has the potential to boost the growth of Mexican manufacturing exports to the U.S., trillion economy. in 2022,” the report stated.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friend Daniel Waldron with Armagard. CNN Money partly attributes the decline in manufacturing jobs to the rise in industrial computer systems on the factory floor. In it, Daniel discusses the industrial Computing Revolution and how it effects the manufacturing industry. The result?

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 6, 2017

Editor's Note: Today's blog is by Fergus O'Sullivan with Cloudwars.net. In this mini blog series on, Fergus will teach us about the Internet of Things; What is the Internet of things, how it works, how to use it, and what risks may occur. We hope you enjoy. That sounds pretty cool, right?

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 24, 2015

Productivity in factories continues to improve, however, and are more efficient than ever, so the best jobs picture we can hope for is flat as we don’t believe that US Manufacturing jobs will ever be at the percentage they were at the peak in the late 70s. Also, the majority of factories that could leave may have already gone.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Editor's Note: Today's blog is from Cindy Banker with ProCorr Display and Packaging who is bringing us some great insight on how to reduce product damage. If you are a product manufacturer, you know all too well the perils of shipping products from your factory or warehouse to a DC or retailer.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Do executive level decisions influence the small processes in a factory, or is the world simply ready for a new type of manufacturing industry? A recent study found that 80 percent of respondents, discovered in a survey by Packaging World magazine, own a tablet, asserts Apriso's Transformation Manufacturing Blog.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As explained in a previous blog post, drivers have already been pushed to take more breaks than currently required under existing hours-of-service (HOS) regulations in preparation for the ELD mandate implementation. factory activity has risen to the highest levels since 2004, in response to the active hurricane season as well.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Instead, they could easily install 3D manufacturing plant in their own factory to cut the extra cost. In her blog, she writes about the different areas of technology, education, and eLearning. It will also reduce the shipment costs as a local manufacturer will no need to bring material from other countries. More Customized Products.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Why are we having an interview with an American Manufacturer on a logistics blog, you ask? Most people are amazed that manufacturing still exists here in LA and we're excited to show people our factory. . Malan Lai, Managing Partner & General Manager, UCan Zippers. It's simple. Think about it for a second.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 28, 2016

Is the factory pumping tons of lethal gases into the atmosphere? By 2025, conservative estimates of the labor shortage in manufacturing stand out at more than 2 million unfilled jobs, as discussed in a previous blog post. Picture of traditional job in manufacturing. Is the dust flying; are the squeals of machinery mind-numbing?

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2022

That’s what pet care and consumer foods company Mars plans to do with the digital twin technology that it will roll out across its global factory network, having used it to improve production efficiencies successfully during trials. We also have our quarterly webinar coming up on November 9, 2022. Trials a Success.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 26, 2016

This is the first in a series of blogs where we will cover the current state for U.S. Lower costs of producing products overseas led to many manufacturers uprooting factories and placing them in less regulated markets. manufacturers, supply chain, logistics, transportation, and freight management.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 30, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from our friend Jake Rheude with Red Stag Fulfillment. Apple is solidly situated on the retail side of distribution but pays factories it doesn’t own to build its products. Every economic system has segments that produce products and consumers who need them.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is our second post in a collaborative blog post series about mobility in manufacturing & logistics along with Catavolt, who helps manufacturing organizations drive operational excellence with mobile apps.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. There were approximately 220 blog posts in 2014, and over 200,000 page views on those posts alone. Top Manufacturing Blog Posts for 2014.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friends at Mahan's Thermal Products. While we know this to be true, it doesn’t mean that a factory can’t be built with an eco-friendly outlook. They discuss what it takes to create green industrial and manufacturing facilities from scratch.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Yesterday we kicked off our most popular blog post series for the most viewed blog posts in the main 5 categories we publish to (although you can browse all categories on the right side of this blog). For the Manufacturing Blog Posts, we saw a bit of a deviation from that starting trend.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

DHL looks at the following ways Augmented Reality will provide benefits to the supply chain as listed from the Elementum blog : Picking Optimization : Each picker sees a ‘digital picking list’ on a heads-up display (picture Google Glass visuals). DHL Trend Research certainly seems to think so when it comes to this 2016 Supply Chain Trend.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I have been following the Marlin Steel blog and the company for quite some time. We are featuring two of their quick blog posts below that are relevant to the state of American Manufacturing today: the real facts about the industry and why someone should work in manufacturing. Chinese factories suddenly started making bagel baskets.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Headquartered in New York, Shapeways has factories and offices in Eindhoven, Queens, and Seattle. If you have followed our blog previously, you have seen us blog about 3D Printing. You can view all the 3D Printing blog posts in the category here.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

We continue our "Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015.So So Far" series today highlighting supply chain blog posts. On the Cerasis blog, our goal is to offer tips, news, best practices, and trends so you, the reader, find a lot of value in our expertise. Most Popular Supply Chain Blog Posts from the Cerasis Blog for 2015 So Far.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

As explained in a previous blog post, continuous improvement in an organization can be achieved through the use of performance measurement tools via big data. Performance Measurement and Management. Mostly, this reflects the skills and actual working capacity of employees.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is by Carl Turner. If you treat every product movement as a transaction, you’ll have a greater wealth of data to determine how everything moves in your factory, which allows for maximum efficiency. Carl is a freelance business writer who loves to share his knowledge of the entrepreneurial world.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 31, 2016

Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog from our friend Jake Rheude with Red Stag Fulfillment. Ideally there is a small and relatively constant number of particular products in the chain and, as a customer buys one, an additional one is placed on order from the factory. New Technologies Waiting in the Wings.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friend, Rachel Everly, a freelance writer in business and finance who shows us how digitized trucking will change the game for logistics companies. . Welcome to the Grand Era of Digitized Trucking! .

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AIMMS

JULY 5, 2017

As we wrote in a previous blog post , implementing Sales and Operations Planning has many benefits. 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.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

We hope you continue to enjoy our blog posts as we are now proud to announce over 20,000 blog subscribers and over 100,000 monthly visits! . We hope you have been able to learn a few things from the 232 blogs published in 2015. Without further ado, here are the top 10 supply chain articles by most read from the Cerasis blog: 10.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 4, 2015

Participants ranged in roles and company sizes with questions that spanned a variety supply chain management trends of topics such as visibility, factory-of-the-future technology, the Internet of Things and more. ” SCM Core Trend #2: The Manufacturing Factory of the Future. But how does it work in industry?

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 27, 2015

For one thing, simple blogging tools and social media platforms have fundamentally democratized mass media, ending the monopoly once enjoyed by large publishers and broadcasters.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2016

Also, if you would like to read anything related to the supply chain you can read all the supply chain blogs in that category here or search any keyword in the search bar to the right. If you missed the first post, we encourage you to give it a read by visiting the first seven 2016 supply chain trends post here. .

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GlobalTranz

MAY 26, 2015

Consider our example from this blog post. However, these types of workers are not counted as a manufacturing job, because they don’t work in a factory. These “Factory-less” workers, however, contribute a great deal to the overall process of manufacturing a product, such as the iPhone.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 15, 2015

At Cerasis, a core value of ours is continuous improvement for not only our company, our clients, and employees, but through our blog and content to those who are related to what we do (transportation management) in the fields of manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, distribution, and transportation. So what is “industry 4.0?”

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