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

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

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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‘How training in digital and English-language skills changed my life’

World Food Programme Logistics

Yasser, a Syrian refugee in Iraq recalls his journey from longing to study to becoming a web designer through WFP’s EMPACT scheme [link] Hi, I’m Yasser. Then I tried to study, but it was difficult for me because I had to support my family. Then I tried to study, but it was difficult for me because I had to support my family.

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Industry Outlook: Manufacturing Trends

Trinity Logistics

Another reason for increased output is the changes in manufacturing factories and their companies. Technology is advancing, becoming more accessible, making these factories and companies more efficient and able to produce more with fewer people. Some manufacturers are even pushing the limit and testing our “dark factories”.

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Industry Outlook: Manufacturing Trends

Trinity Logistics

According to the Manufacturing Institute , young employees are attracted to companies that look to train and invest in them. According to a study by the Manufacturing Institute, less than 30 percent of manufacturing workers are women. Some manufacturers are even pushing the limit and testing our “dark factories”. Industry 4.0

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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’. vehicles, produces vehicles under contract for OEMs such as Daimler, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover.

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Philip Morris International’s Pivot to Smoke-Free Products Complicates their Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

At the end of 2019 that supply chain covered 38 PMI owned factories, 28 third party manufacturers, and more than 180 markets. They gave River Logic cost, lead time, and other data on five factories, and requested they built a validated network model as soon as possible. It was predictable.

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Navigating the Loading Bay’s Hidden Risks

Logistics Business Magazine

Recruits who are unfamiliar with the processes and risks demand lots of training hours and add pressure on the remaining workforce to increase their productivity. It’s a hub of fast-paced activity between people and vehicles, which is what makes it one of the most dangerous areas of a warehouse or factory in the first place.