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ERP for mixed-mode manufacturing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In past blogs, we have discussed different types of manufacturing – discrete and process. Discrete manufacturing makes distinct ‘things’, process manufacturing makes ‘stuff’ (for example, fertilizer). Mixed-mode manufacturing challenges. Manufacturing planning and scheduling.

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AMRs: the safe choice for the warehouse

Logistics Business Magazine

Frazer Watson, UK–Ireland Country Manager at AMR designer and manufacturer iFollow , examines how AMRs can contribute to improving safety in increasingly busy warehouses. A distribution centre typically operates with a mixed fleet of counterbalance, narrow aisle and order picking trucks rushing around it.

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How 5 Emerging Technologies Will Change the Services of 3rd Party Logistics Providers

GlobalTranz

This revolutionary technology makes it possible for anyone to create products or parts of products using metals, plastic, mixed materials and even human tissue. Additive manufacturing will democratize the manufacturing process, according to Ed Morris, director of the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII).

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Working together to drive through disruption

Automotive Logistics

Manufacturers have been modifying existing powertrains rather than launching new engine families, and putting an increasing amount of resources into electrification. Manufacturers continue to make hybrids even with regulations in question. Christine Krathwohl, vice-president global business development, Freight Verify.

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Mapping for Mercedes

Automotive Logistics

One of two winners chosen this summer was AutoMap, a four-year-old technology business based in Hillsboro, Oregon. The signal is encrypted for security, making the data inaccessible to unauthorised users; and the data is unscrambled not within the handheld itself, but by the system’s cloud-based server software. Tracking at Tuscaloosa.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

Hot “gobs” of molten glass every couple of seconds come down chutes attached to giant ovens and settle into molds, after which a plunger type device pushes into the mold to form the shape of the finished glass piece. Maybe a software robot will be writing columns on supply chain topics before too long too.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

And there are all types of CEO views on sustainability, such as beyond true-believer Paul Polman , CEO OF Unilever, to many others whose words are often far ahead of their actions and true internal compass. In the end, the top priority has to remain being able to survive and prospers as a business. Great article.