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Vehicle logistics threatened by microchip shortage

Logistics Business Magazine

Inventories are close to zero, volumes have fallen dramatically, factories are closing without notice, unbalanced flows are destroying efficiency and thus profitability. The result is empty yards, empty workshops, idle and under-utilised car transporters, trains and ships.

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Ford Otosan and AVL join forces on platooning

Automotive Logistics

The Regensburg unit is its global centre for powertrain and vehicle control software, electronics and e-machine development, while its Istanbul operation has an engineering workshop and two R&D centres. At this stage the project, the latest in more than 20 years of cooperation between the companies, is envisaged to last three years.

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“The pandemic has changed the industry”

Logistics Business Magazine

And we also communicate with our business partners or colleagues within the Clark organisation via video conference. At the moment, therefore, production is running in all our factories and the supply chains are also largely intact. That means you use the free workshop capacities for reconditioning used equipment? Absolutely!

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Flight club

Automotive Logistics

BMW, for example, has started to use dronesat its factory in Leipzig to count external storage bins for parts – work that was previously done by personnel. mpu_ad]Meanwhile, Skoda is trialling an autonomous drone to identify and count containers outside its factory in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic.

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China car transporters: Axle position looks set to move centre stage

Automotive Logistics

Speaking at the Automotive Logistics China conference last April , Bo Shiju, founder and chairman of domestic third-party logistics provider, Beijing Changjiu Logistics, said it was more realistic to make the height limit 4.5 The maximum permissible width of a trailer will be 2.6 metres and maximum height 4 metres.