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Straight Talk on 5G for Industrial Applications

Logistics Viewpoints

However, the 5G protocol is slowly evolving to add more features for industrial applications. Like many other large industrial manufacturers, Covestro has been very interested in 5G as a key enabler of the Smart Factory. For industry, 5G is a developing technology. Pietro Valsecchi, Covestro’s Expert on 5G.

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ONE Thailand Hosts Group of Japanese University Students

Logistics Manager

All the students are Juniors (3rd year) at their university and are a mix of studying to either be a seaman or they are studying marine logistics. The group of university students used the opportunity to learn more about the Thai marine and logistics industry as well as how Japanese businesses operate within the country.

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Case Study: “A Good Idea That Just Keeps On Getting Better”

Logistics Business Magazine

Aluminium extruder Garnalex has made substantial investments in its new extrusion factory in Nether Heage, Derbyshire (UK) to revolutionise the way aluminium windows and doors are fabricated, installed and sold. The post Case Study: “A Good Idea That Just Keeps On Getting Better” appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Case Study: Demand Management Efficiency for Brandt Group

Logistics Business Magazine

Brandt Group, the Franco-Algerian home appliances manufacturer, has optimised the supply of washing machines, cutting costs and excess stock by up to a third after implementing supply chain software from FuturMaster. The manufacturer operates four factories, two in France and two in Algeria and has three warehouses around the world.

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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 So perhaps it is no surprise to discover that the plant was an early adopter of industry 4.0, has been rebadged as ‘Smart Factory by Magna Steyr’.

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Baby Formula: A Supply Chain Shock in Plain Sight

MTS Logistics

The root causes of the shortage are numerous and stem from factory closures, supplier issues, and disruptions in the supply chain. After the world spent many days talking about general supply chain shortages throughout 2021 and the first half of 2022, the current baby formula shortage is a case study in real-time supply chain shocks.

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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

In the late 1940s the industrial engineers turned this craft production system into a factory system with the tasks divided between three shifts. The study I am citing here was commissioned to determine why. This all changed shortly after WWII. The Long Wall Method. Long Wall Mining Shift Schedule. Productivity plummeted.