NGT News

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

factory located in Joliet, Ill. The post Lion Produces First American-Made Electric School Bus in Illinois Factory appeared first on NGT News. ., a manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles, has produced its first zero-emission LionC school bus in its U.S. “This is a significant milestone for Lion.

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NGT News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Designed to produce over 250,000 units in 2022 and over one million in 2030, the 130,000-square-foot factory will manufacture all of the company’s chargers in the U.S., The post Wallbox Opens Production for North American EV Charger Factory in Texas appeared first on NGT News.

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Commercial Carrier Journal

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Fleets are stepping up to support Intellistop CEO Michelle Hanby who's suing the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration to have her company's brake light pulsing device installed at factories.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Having accurate data about what is happening on the factory floor is essential as it empowers manufacturers to leverage KPIs to better monitor machine maintenance, ensure the quality of goods being produced and ensure supply chain optimization. Increased safety and less on the job injuries in the warehouse and on the factory floor.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

IoT sensors in the supply chain and robotics in factories are fluently available. In the last decade alone, we have seen factories move from basic digitization to more predictive power. In part 1 of the smart factory series we unpacked digitization, digitalization and digital transformation.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Orders at factories are piling up as companies around the world struggle to meet demand amid a damaging mixture of the coronavirus and widespread bottlenecks in supply chains.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This means making factories smarter for the future. Here’s a look into the smart factory and the steps to start the path to one taking advantage of the benefits technology can offer. What is the smart factory? How to create a smart factory. Where does your factory need to make improvements?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

IoT sensors in the supply chain and robotics in factories are fluently available. In the last decade alone, we have seen factories move from basic digitization to more predictive power. In part 1 of the smart factory series we unpacked digitization, digitalization and digital transformation.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Now government-imposed power cuts are threatening factory output in China. What else could go wrong for supply chains? The cuts in power generation are due to the Chinese government’s desire to keep emissions down to their target. By Martina Li … Continue reading →

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Tens of thousands of factory employees have gone back to their home villages from Vietnam’s southern industrial belt — and millions more are poised to follow — after months-long COVID-19 restrictions recently eased.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 2, 2023

Smart factories are growing in prominence as continued supply chain disruptions and pressures from the 4 th Industrial Revolution make embracing technology a necessity for manufacturers. This blog will look closely at the 6 most pressing challenges posed by smart factories and how an ERP system can help you overcome them.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 9, 2023

China is an extremely important market for Tesla, where its existing car factory on the outskirts of Shanghai produced almost 711,000 cars in 2022, or 52% of its worldwide output.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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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NGT News

OCTOBER 19, 2020

General Motors says its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center will be known as Factory ZERO, reconfigured to an all-electric vehicle assembly plant. The name Factory ZERO reflects the significance of this facility in advancing GM’s zero-crashes, zero-emissions and zero-congestion future. The facility has advanced […].

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 10, 2022

Jason Bergstrom, principal and smart factory leader with Deloitte, traces the evolution of the smart factory, and defines the term as it applies to modern-day technology tools.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 25, 2021

Some of the world’s biggest footwear and garment companies are seeing production pinched as factories in Southeast Asia struggle to keep the lights on amid one of the world’s deadliest COVID-19 resurgences.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

factories rose modestly in January, suggesting manufacturers are gradually working through pandemic-related shortages of materials and labor that hobbled output in the prior month. Production at U.S.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

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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NGT News

APRIL 13, 2020

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF (Fraunhofer IFF) have designed a factory for the distributed and modular production and distribution of green hydrogen for industry, business and transportation throughout the value chain.

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NGT News

APRIL 13, 2022

The post New $2 Billion Investment Made in Kentucky EV Battery Factory appeared first on NGT News. Andy Beshear and the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce, have revealed a $2 billion investment to build a new gigafactory in the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green, Warren County.

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NGT News

APRIL 7, 2021

Mark Reuss, president of General Motors (GM), says Chevrolet is introducing a Silverado electric pickup truck that will be built at the company’s Factory ZERO assembly plant in Detroit. Factory ZERO is undergoing a complete renovation and retooling […].

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 2, 2019

A recent study touts the “smart” factory as a magic bullet that can solve any number of manufacturers’ problems, from low productivity growth to uncompetitive operations.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 17, 2021

factories strengthened in July by the most in four months, rebounding above pre-pandemic levels and indicating manufacturers are coping with snarled supply chains and shortages. Production at U.S.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 8, 2019

We picked one factory (or industrial site) from each state you can visit that truly represents what has always made America great: hard work and ingenuity.

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Morai Logistics

MARCH 18, 2020

Safety in factories is paramount—here are some material handling tips for factory workers. Given their knowledge of proper protocol on the factory floor, we were more than happy to accept their proposed blog post. It is common to see workers handling or moving materials in a factory. ” (Learn more about them here ).

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 18, 2022

Even those companies in China whose factories are operating under so-called closed-loop systems may be forced to stop work due to parts shortages or logistical challenges that make moving people and goods around the country near impossible.

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IoT World Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

The city of Dallas has offered Ford an incentive package should it choose to build a proposed autonomous vehicle (AV) factory near the city. Ford is already launching autonomous ride-sharing services in Austin and Miami in partnership with Lyft and Argo AI.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The factory will also manufacture solar cells, the building blocks for solar panels and a component not currently produced in the U.S.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Information Factory , an independent software vendor specialising in the logistics sector, has launched Business Intelligence as a Service, an end-to-end, fully managed data reporting and analytics system, available on a subscription basis and operating with cloud based technology.

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IoT World Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Tochigi plant is the first at Nissan to introduce the intelligent factory production line. Robot inspection modules are also installed along with smart machinery for assembling parts around the chassis and body. Autonomy is being leveraged in a bid to reduce carbon emissions in line with Nissan’s 2050 carbon neutrality target.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

LeanDNA, a provider of factory-focused inventory optimization solutions, has launched role-based workflow capabilities within its platform for the manufacturing industry.

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NGT News

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The post Nuvve, Blue Bird Plan V2G Factory Hub for EV Utilization as Energy Storage Assets appeared first on NGT News. .‘s delivery facility in Fort Valley in Georgia. This will create a V2G hub that will help optimize the utilization of electric buses and allow them to act as energy storage […].

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As if damage to people and supply chains by the coronavirus pandemic and economic freefall weren’t bad enough, add to it the greater difficulty of monitoring human rights violations in distant farms and factories.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 27, 2022

Manager and even the Smart Factory Manager. While the robotic arm has been around for decades, the success behind the factory of the future will still rely heavily on a human-first digital culture. Building the right skills to meet the factory of the future appeared first on SYSPRO Blog. Rollout ongoing training opportunities.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

in Factories,” to find out how Industry 4.0 But businesses now need these teams to do more by running their production processes faster and autonomously with smart machines and real-time data. Read The MPI Group report, “The Power of Industry 4.0

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

When it comes to running the modern-day factory, there’s a yawning gap between theory and reality.

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