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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’. An initial test saw the wrinkles ironed out and documentation refined.

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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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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

Background TWI stands for Training Within Industry, a program developed during WWII by the U.S. The Commission deployed a series of training programs to teach industrial supervisors: Job Instruction, teaching the skill of breaking down a job and teaching it to others. War Manpower Commission. It is about the 1944 material.

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Transparency for the customer who is king

Logistics Business Magazine

The Bochum-based company has numerous customers – from medium-sized companies to corporate groups – who have been managing the issue of CSR with suppliers, purchasing agencies, auditing institutes and other supply chain partners via the Setlog software OSCA for years, thus bringing transparency to the supply chain.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

Moving around a large factory can be exhausting. At automaker BMW Group, for instance, plant employees can walk up to seven miles per day. To eliminate some of this traveling BMW’s R&D group developed a Personal Mover solution—a one-person means of transport for covering short distances within an operating site.

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Reality check

Automotive Logistics

From enhanced design and manufacturing processes to novel staff training and apprenticeship programmes, the use of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in industrial applications is growing. mpu_ad]Virtual training. As Irma Gilbert, business development manager at Liverpool-based technology start-up Connect 4.0

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Packing a punch

Automotive Logistics

For transportation within Europe, the sender must include the transport documents required by the legislator,” confirms Peter Koltai, head of transport logistics at Audi. This includes having warning signs and a driver with ADR dangerous goods training and protective equipment. . UN certification.

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