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The smart factory Part 4: What skills do manufacturers and distributors need in the factory of the future?

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

As manufacturers and distributors inject their operations with innovative technologies in an effort to transform them into smart factories, a shift in how those factories are staffed has emerged. Reskilling and attracting a smart factory workforce. As factories add smarter tech, they’ll need people to manage it.

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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The digital transformation of the operations and processes of factories and supply chains is based upon digitization of carefully selected machines and digitalization of the related business processes. So here goes – read on for a greater understanding of these concepts and the role they play in your journey to a smart factory.

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Tata Steel Europe’s Connected Planning Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

The company sells directly and through channels; they have an extensive distribution network to provide postproduction processing, service, distribution, and sales support. This is a complex tool because doing IBP well is difficult. Their primary steel plants are in Ijmuiden in the Netherlands and in the UK at Port Talbot.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper has one main distribution center roughly three miles from their largest hospital in Camden. And the reasons spanned from a global chip shortage, to embargoes, to factory fires, to natural disasters. The volume of goods needed to serve their patients is also significant. Then the risk solution fills in the gaps.

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How Automated Guided Vehicles Transform Material Handling

Conger

They are often used in industrial applications to transport heavy materials around industrial buildings, such as a factory or warehouse environment. Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are the quiet heroes of the factory floor or warehouse. Here is a quick look at some types you might meet on your next factory tour.

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How Automated Guided Vehicles Transform Material Handling

Conger

They are often used in industrial applications to transport heavy materials around industrial buildings, such as a factory or warehouse environment. Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are the quiet heroes of the factory floor or warehouse. Here is a quick look at some types you might meet on your next factory tour.

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Giant Doors for a Stable Climate

Logistics Business Magazine

High-speed doors for the lorry entrance EFAFLEX has installed very high and wide doors at the Ždírec factory in order to allow large lorries to enter. High-speed doors on the upper floor But high-speed doors with large dimensions are not the only interesting applications at the STORA ENSO factory in Ždírec. billion euros.