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

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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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What is Internal Logistics: Importance, Elements and Examples

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What is Internal Logistics: Importance, Elements and Examples | Image Source: Google Images. For example, the operations manager. This includes, for example, everything related to warehouse and logistics. Examples of internal and external logistics. Example of external logistics. What is internal logistics?

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The role of ERP in the smart factory

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How can a manufacturing business today become an intelligent and automated ecosystem – a smart factory that drives productivity, performance, and profitability? Smaller manufacturers, for example, have to consider the costs as challenges can become magnified as a business expands. A smarter supply chain with smart factory.

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How manufacturers can enable innovation on the factory floor

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A simple example of this would entail considering inventory and stock on hand (internal data) along with changes in weather patterns due to climate change (external data), and how both factors affect a factory’s ability to deliver on its orders. Increased safety and less on the job injuries in the warehouse and on the factory floor.

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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

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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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Leading Inventory Attack Teams with Richard Lebovitz

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Richard is the CEO of LeanDNA , a purpose-built analytics platform for factory inventory optimization. About Richard Lebovitz Richard Lebovitz is the CEO of LeanDNA , a purpose-built analytics platform for factory inventory optimization. Richard previously founded and led Factory Logic, Inc. acquired by SAP).

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The changed distribution channels—taking masks as an example

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Meanwhile, the National Health Agency had controlled the current factories. The government just like a retailer, after receiving the demand of the province, they gave information to the factories. The factories delivered the masks like FTL to the province. Once they had product masks, the masks would be uniformly deployed.