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KION Group Establishes new Factory in Poland

Logistics Business Magazine

KION Group AG is pursuing its growth strategy with the construction of a new industrial truck plant in Ko?baskowo, The additional plant in Poland will complement KION Group’s existing production facilities across Europe and cater to customers with less intensive utilization in the EMEA region. The plant in Ko?baskowo

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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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Scania opens Thai factory to better serve Southeast Asia

Automotive Logistics

Swedish truckmaker Scania has moved production closer to sales in Southeast Asia with the opening of a factory in Thailand to assemble truck and bus chassis from complete knockdown (CKD) kits shipped in from Europe, as well as manufacturing truck cabs locally.

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. ZF is a Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry. While most of their sales are to automotive OEMs, they also sell components that go into other products – trucks and busses, wind turbines, tractors, construction equipment, etc. at the ZF Group.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 27 – June 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

Executives are plotting alternate supply chains or devising products that can be made elsewhere should China’s hundreds of thousands of factories become inaccessible. and raided the Beijing offices of Mintz Group, a due-diligence firm based in New York. manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China.

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November Industry News Update

Trinity Logistics

Here’s a look at some of the top industry stories making headlines in November. American Trucking Associations’ seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage reached 147.6 ATA cites consumption, factory output, construction, and improved inventory levels throughout the supply chain as driving factors in the improvement.

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From Real-Time Visibility to Real-Time Decisions: Data’s Value Is Propagating Across Global Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

And in the intervening years — as we’ve leveraged real-time data, ML and AI to help countless companies answer the “where’s my truck” question — I’ve continued to underscore that visibility is a foundational technology. Once you know where that truck (or train, plane or container) is, that’s when things get really interesting.