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Delivering a smarter factory

Automotive Logistics

Magna Steyr’s vehicle assembly plant in the Austrian city of Graz is not a typical automotive factory; the site, which in 2018 brought its cumulative total production tally to 3.5m has been rebadged as ‘Smart Factory by Magna Steyr’. vehicles, produces vehicles under contract for OEMs such as Daimler, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover.

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From Real-Time Visibility to Real-Time Decisions: Data’s Value Is Propagating Across Global Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

And in the intervening years — as we’ve leveraged real-time data, ML and AI to help countless companies answer the “where’s my truck” question — I’ve continued to underscore that visibility is a foundational technology. Once you know where that truck (or train, plane or container) is, that’s when things get really interesting.

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Fashion Transparency: China to Germany

Logistics Business Magazine

When it comes to manufacturing high-quality fashion, Walbusch Group relies on Polymax Group, among others. Three stories, large windows, white facade: From the outside, the Polymax Group factory in the Chinese coastal city of Ningbo could also be located somewhere in Germany. He feels at home in China.

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The Russian Invasion, Cyber War, and Global Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

But supply chain impacts like the rising cost of gas, or the inability of a train to cross Siberia to bring goods from China to Europe, or the increased congestion this would cause at China ports, was not the supply chain impact I feared most. He also noted that AWS, Oracle, and Google will all be backing up their data.”.

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More About Mistake-Proofing

The Lean Thinker

And I’ll put even money that if all of the data were known, this process would pass any test for statistical control and we are getting what we should expect from a stable system. In the Factory. “Making an example of someone” might well work for a group for a short time. Their inspectors kept missing defects.

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New Semi-Rugged Laptop for Manufacturing and Automotive Professionals

Logistics Business Magazine

Thunderbolt 4 technology provides ultra-fast data transfer speeds, while also making it easier to share data with other devices. The S410’s configuration options are diverse, supporting a variety of new and legacy I/O ports for more robust industrial computing operations and factory automation workloads.

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Conscious Clothing? Why Fashion's Going Green

Material Handling and Logistics

Crew Group, for example, recently debuted its “Eco Jean,” a selection of denim it boasts is made from “sustainably dyed organic Italian cotton.”. In Europe, luxury group Kering SA, Swedish fast-fashion chain Hennes & Mauritz AB, and British retailer Marks & Spencer Group Plc have all undertaken environmental and social projects.