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

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Now digitalization of manufacturing and distribution supply chain processes has become imperative, especially after the pandemic, which caused disruptions and revealed multiple gaps and weaknesses in the global supply chain. This means making factories smarter for the future. What is the smart factory?

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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A little more than 20 years ago, I was doing some consulting for a company called Indiana Glass, then a division of Lancaster Colony, at its Dunkirk, IN factory just outside of Muncie. Alas, it appears the factory was shuttered more than a decade ago. But there is one image I will never forget from my time there. .