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Partners Initiate On-Road Testing of Heavy-Duty Autonomous Truck

NGT News

IVECO and Plus say they are beginning public-road testing of their jointly developed next-generation automated trucks in Germany. As a part of the testing, the companies will collect road data to validate their autonomous truck’s operations and start designing the potential factory production model.

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5 data prerequisites for carrier predictive freight rating in logistics

FreightWaves SONAR

Control over trucking freight rating remains a blip for many carriers, particularly owner-operators and those trying to manage the chaos of a pandemic-stressed industry. Quite simply, freight rating challenges are not a problem limited to trucking carriers. Up until the end of 2019, more than half of the carriers were unprofitable.

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Forklift Data Plates: How to Read and Understand Them

Conger

This article has everything you need to know about forklift data plates, including: What a data plate is. How to read a forklift data plate. What Is a Forklift Data Plate? Where Is the Forklift Data Plate? Why Is the Data Plate Important? Can You Operate a Forklift Without a Data Plate? Truck weight.

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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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Supply Chain Software’s Best Return on Investment

Logistics Viewpoints

A company with one factory and one DC, reorganizing the location and duties of the facilities, will have little opportunity to drive much in the way of payback from a network design solution. Many scenarios were necessary because the way goods flowed from factories to DCs and from DCs out to customers were quite complex.

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ARIBIC digitalisation project saves AGV sensor data

Logistics Business Magazine

As automated guided vehicles ( AGVs ) navigate through warehouses or production halls, they become real data collectors. Data that is, however, immediately deleted again. The data collected via sensors and cameras can be used in the ARIBIC cloud to create continuously updated 3D maps of warehouses or production facilities.

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Secure data exchange in the age of industry 4.0

Logistics Business Magazine

Networked production processes and digital factories provide an important key to securing Germany’s competitiveness and innovative strength as a business centre. An associated lighthouse project is IC4F (Industrial Communications for Factories), in which the Hamburg intralogistics company STILL is playing a major role.